1 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-??
2 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
3 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
6 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
12 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
14 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
17 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
18 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
20 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
23 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
24 released today. All relays not already running Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha or
25 later should upgrade to this release.
27 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
28 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
29 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
30 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
33 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
34 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
35 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
36 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
38 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
39 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
40 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
41 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
42 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
43 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
44 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
45 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
46 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
47 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
48 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
49 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
50 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
52 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
53 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
54 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
55 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
56 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
57 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
58 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
59 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
60 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
61 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
62 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
64 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
65 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
66 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
68 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
69 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
70 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
71 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
72 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
73 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
74 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
76 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
77 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
78 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
79 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
81 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
82 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
83 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
84 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
86 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
87 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
88 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
89 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
90 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
93 o Minor features (geoip):
94 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
97 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
98 - When logging a failure to check a hidden service's certificate,
99 also log what the problem with the certificate was. Diagnostic
102 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
103 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
104 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
105 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
106 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
108 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
109 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
110 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
111 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
112 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
113 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
114 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
116 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
117 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
118 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
119 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
120 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
122 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
123 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
124 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
125 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
127 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
128 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
129 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
130 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
131 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
133 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
134 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
135 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
136 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
138 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
139 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
140 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
141 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
143 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
144 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
145 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
146 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
148 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
149 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
151 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
152 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
154 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
155 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
156 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
158 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
159 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
160 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
161 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
162 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
164 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
165 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
166 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
168 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
169 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
170 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
174 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
175 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
177 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
178 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
179 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
180 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
181 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
182 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
184 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
185 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
186 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
187 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
188 with the 0.2.9 series.
190 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
191 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
193 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
194 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
195 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
196 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
197 information. Closes ticket 24801.
198 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
199 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
200 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
201 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
203 o Minor features (geoip):
204 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
207 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
208 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
209 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
210 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
211 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
214 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
215 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
216 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
218 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
219 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
220 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
221 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
225 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
226 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
227 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
228 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
229 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
230 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
231 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
233 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
234 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
235 will be nearly identical to this.
237 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
238 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
239 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
240 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
241 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
242 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
243 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
245 o Minor features (geoip):
246 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
249 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
250 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
251 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
252 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
254 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
255 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
256 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
257 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
258 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
261 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
262 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
263 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
264 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
265 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
266 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
269 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
270 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
271 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
273 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
274 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
275 be nearly identical to this.
277 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
278 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
279 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
280 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
281 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
282 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
283 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
285 o Minor features (logging):
286 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
289 o Minor features (portability):
290 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
291 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
294 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
295 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
296 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
297 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
298 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
299 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
300 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
301 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
302 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
303 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
304 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
305 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
306 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
309 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
310 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
312 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
313 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
314 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
315 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
316 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
317 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
318 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
321 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
322 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
323 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
324 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
325 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
326 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
327 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
329 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
330 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
331 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
332 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
333 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
334 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
335 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
336 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
337 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
338 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
339 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
342 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
343 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
344 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
345 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
348 o Major bugfixes (security):
349 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
350 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
351 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
352 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
353 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
354 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
355 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
356 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
357 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
358 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
360 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
361 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
362 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
363 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
364 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
365 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
366 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
369 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
370 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
371 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
372 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
373 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
375 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
376 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
377 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
378 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
379 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
380 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
381 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
382 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
383 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
385 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
386 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
387 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
388 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
390 o Minor features (directory authority):
391 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
394 o Minor bugfixes (client):
395 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
396 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
397 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
400 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
401 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
402 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
403 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
404 since the 0.3.0.x series.
406 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
407 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
410 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
411 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
412 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
413 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
414 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
415 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
416 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
417 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
418 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
419 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
420 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
423 o Minor features (directory authority):
424 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
425 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
426 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
427 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
429 o Minor features (geoip):
430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
433 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
434 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
435 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
437 o Minor features (logging):
438 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
439 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
441 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
442 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
444 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
445 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
446 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
447 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
448 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
449 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
450 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
451 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
453 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
454 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
455 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
458 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
459 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
460 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
461 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
463 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
464 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
465 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
466 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
467 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
468 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
469 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
470 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
471 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
474 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
475 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
476 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
477 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
478 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
479 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
480 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
482 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
483 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
484 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
485 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
486 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
487 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
489 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
490 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
491 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
492 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
493 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
494 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
495 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
497 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
498 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
499 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
501 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
502 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
503 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
504 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
505 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
506 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
507 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
508 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
511 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
512 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
513 section. Closes ticket 24254.
516 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
517 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
518 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
519 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
522 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
523 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
524 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
525 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
526 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
527 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
530 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
531 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
532 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
533 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
534 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
536 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
537 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
538 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
541 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
542 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
543 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
544 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
545 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
547 o Minor features (testing):
548 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
549 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
551 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
552 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
553 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
554 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
555 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
557 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
558 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
559 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
560 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
561 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
564 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
565 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
566 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
567 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
568 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
570 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
571 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
572 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
573 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
575 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
576 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
577 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
579 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
580 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
581 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
583 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
584 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
585 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
586 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
587 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
588 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
590 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
591 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
592 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
593 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
594 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
595 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
596 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
597 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
598 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
599 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
600 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
601 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
603 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
604 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
605 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
606 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
607 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
609 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
610 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
611 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
612 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
613 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
617 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
618 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
619 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
620 directory authority, Bastet.
622 o Directory authority changes:
623 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
625 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
628 o Minor features (bridge):
629 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
630 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
631 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
632 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
633 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
634 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
635 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
637 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
638 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
639 Resolves ticket 23670.
641 o Minor features (geoip):
642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
645 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
646 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
647 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
648 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
650 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
651 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
652 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
654 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
655 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
656 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
657 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
658 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
659 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
661 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
662 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
663 only fetch the service descriptor once.
664 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
665 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
666 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
668 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
669 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
670 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
671 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
673 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
674 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
675 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
677 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
678 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
679 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
680 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
681 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
683 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
684 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
685 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
687 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
688 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
689 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
692 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
693 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
694 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
695 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
696 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
697 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
698 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
699 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
701 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
702 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
703 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
704 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
705 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
708 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
709 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
710 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
711 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
712 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
716 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
717 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
718 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
719 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
720 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
721 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
723 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
724 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
725 include better testing and logging.
727 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
728 in tor-0.3.2.2-alpha:
730 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
731 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
732 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
733 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
735 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
736 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
737 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
738 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
739 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
740 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
741 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
743 o Minor features (build, compilation):
744 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
745 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
746 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
747 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
748 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
749 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
750 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
753 o Minor features (directory authorities):
754 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
755 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
756 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
757 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
759 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
760 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
761 the circuit identifier(s).
762 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
763 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
765 o Minor features (logging):
766 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
767 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
768 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
769 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
770 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
772 o Minor features (relay):
773 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
774 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
775 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
776 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
778 o Minor features (robustness):
779 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
780 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
782 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
783 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
784 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
785 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
786 related to ticket 23080.
788 o Minor features (testing):
789 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
790 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
793 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
794 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
795 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
797 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
798 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
801 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
802 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
803 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
804 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
805 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
806 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
807 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
808 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
809 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
812 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
813 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
816 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
817 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
818 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
819 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
821 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
822 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
823 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
824 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
825 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
826 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
827 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
828 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
831 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
832 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
833 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
834 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
837 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
838 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
839 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
840 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
841 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
843 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
844 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
845 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
846 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
847 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
848 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
849 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
850 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
851 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
852 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
853 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
855 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
856 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
857 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
858 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
859 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
860 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
862 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
863 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
864 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
866 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
867 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
869 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
870 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
871 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
873 o Code simplification and refactoring:
874 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
875 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
878 o Deprecated features:
879 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
880 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
881 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
884 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
885 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
886 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
887 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
888 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
889 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
890 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
894 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
895 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
896 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
897 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
898 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
899 features and bugfixes here.
901 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
903 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
904 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
905 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
906 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
907 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
908 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
909 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
910 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
911 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
912 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
913 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
914 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
916 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
917 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
918 more information, see the design paper at
919 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
920 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
923 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
924 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
925 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
926 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
927 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
928 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
931 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
932 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
934 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
937 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
940 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
942 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
944 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
946 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
947 they are 56 characters long, as in
948 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
950 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
951 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
952 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
953 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
954 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
957 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
958 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
959 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
960 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
961 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
962 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
965 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
966 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
967 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
968 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
970 o Minor features (bug detection):
971 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
972 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
973 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
975 o Minor features (client):
976 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
977 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
978 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
979 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
980 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
981 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
982 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
983 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
984 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
985 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
987 o Minor features (command line):
988 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
989 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
990 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
992 o Minor features (control port):
993 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
994 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
995 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
997 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
998 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
1000 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
1001 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
1002 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
1003 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
1004 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
1005 Closes ticket 23237.
1006 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
1007 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
1009 o Minor features (development support):
1010 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
1011 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
1012 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
1013 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
1014 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
1015 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
1017 o Minor features (ed25519):
1018 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
1019 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
1020 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
1022 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
1023 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
1024 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
1026 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
1027 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
1028 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
1029 another program, regardless of the settings of
1030 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
1031 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
1032 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
1034 o Minor features (logging):
1035 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
1036 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
1037 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
1039 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
1040 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
1042 o Minor features (portability):
1043 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
1044 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
1045 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
1046 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
1048 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
1049 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
1050 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
1051 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
1052 results. Closes ticket 22731.
1054 o Minor features (startup, safety):
1055 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
1056 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
1059 o Minor features (static analysis):
1060 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
1061 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
1064 o Minor features (testing):
1065 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
1066 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
1067 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
1068 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
1069 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
1071 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
1072 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
1073 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
1074 Coverity as CID 1415728.
1076 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
1077 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
1078 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
1079 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
1080 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
1081 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
1082 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
1083 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1085 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1086 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
1087 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
1088 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
1089 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1090 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
1091 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
1092 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1095 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
1096 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1098 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
1099 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
1100 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
1101 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
1104 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
1105 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
1106 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
1107 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
1108 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
1110 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
1111 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
1114 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
1115 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
1116 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
1117 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1119 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
1120 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
1121 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
1122 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
1123 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
1124 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
1125 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
1128 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1129 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
1130 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
1131 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1133 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
1134 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
1135 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1137 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1138 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
1139 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
1140 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1141 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
1142 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
1144 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
1145 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
1146 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
1148 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
1149 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
1150 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
1152 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
1153 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
1154 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
1155 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
1157 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1158 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
1159 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1161 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1162 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
1163 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
1164 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
1165 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
1166 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
1167 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
1168 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1171 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
1172 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
1173 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1174 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
1175 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
1176 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1178 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
1179 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
1180 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
1181 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1183 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1184 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
1185 function from the general code to handle channel state
1186 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
1187 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
1188 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
1189 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
1190 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
1191 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
1192 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
1193 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
1195 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
1196 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
1198 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
1199 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
1200 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
1201 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
1202 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
1203 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
1204 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
1205 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
1206 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
1207 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
1208 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
1209 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
1211 o Deprecated features:
1212 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
1213 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
1214 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
1218 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
1219 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
1220 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
1221 Closes ticket 15645.
1222 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
1223 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
1224 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
1225 file. Closes ticket 21148.
1228 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
1229 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
1230 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
1231 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
1232 Closes ticket 21031.
1233 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
1234 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
1237 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
1238 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
1241 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
1242 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
1243 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
1244 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
1246 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
1247 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
1248 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
1249 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
1251 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1252 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
1253 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
1254 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
1255 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
1258 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1262 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
1263 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
1266 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1267 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
1268 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
1269 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
1270 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
1271 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
1272 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
1273 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
1274 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
1276 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1277 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
1278 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
1279 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
1280 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
1281 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
1282 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
1283 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
1284 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
1287 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
1288 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
1291 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
1292 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
1293 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
1294 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
1296 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
1297 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
1298 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
1299 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
1300 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
1301 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
1302 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
1304 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
1305 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
1306 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
1307 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
1309 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
1310 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
1311 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1313 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1314 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
1315 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1316 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
1318 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1319 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
1320 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
1321 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
1322 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
1324 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
1325 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
1326 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
1327 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
1329 o Minor features (geoip):
1330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1333 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1334 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
1335 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1336 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
1338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1339 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
1340 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1341 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
1342 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1343 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
1344 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
1345 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1347 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
1348 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
1349 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1352 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
1353 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
1356 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
1357 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
1358 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1359 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
1360 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1362 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1363 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
1364 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
1365 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
1366 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
1367 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1369 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1370 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
1371 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
1372 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
1373 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
1374 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
1375 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
1376 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
1377 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
1379 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1380 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
1381 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
1382 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1384 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1385 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
1386 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1388 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1389 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
1390 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
1391 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
1392 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1394 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
1395 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
1396 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
1399 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1400 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
1401 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
1402 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
1403 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1405 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1406 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
1407 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
1408 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
1409 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
1410 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
1411 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
1412 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
1413 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
1416 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
1417 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
1420 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
1421 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
1422 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
1423 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
1425 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
1426 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
1427 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
1428 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
1431 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1434 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
1435 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
1436 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1438 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
1439 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
1440 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1441 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
1442 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1444 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1445 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
1446 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
1447 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1449 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
1450 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
1451 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
1453 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
1454 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
1455 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
1456 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
1459 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
1460 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
1462 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
1463 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
1464 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
1465 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
1466 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
1467 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
1468 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
1470 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
1471 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
1472 disabled. For more information, see
1473 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
1475 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
1476 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
1477 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
1478 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
1479 with the 0.2.9 series.
1481 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
1482 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1484 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
1485 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
1486 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
1487 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
1488 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
1490 o Minor features (defensive programming):
1491 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
1492 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
1493 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
1496 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1497 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
1498 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
1499 attempt for bug 23105.
1501 o Minor features (geoip):
1502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1506 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
1507 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1509 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1510 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
1511 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1512 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
1513 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1515 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1516 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
1517 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
1518 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1520 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1521 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
1522 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
1526 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
1527 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
1528 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
1529 Windows directory caches.
1531 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
1532 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
1533 will be nearly identical to it.
1535 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
1536 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
1537 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
1538 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
1539 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
1540 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1542 o Minor features (directory authority):
1543 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
1544 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
1545 Closes ticket 22348.
1547 o Minor features (geoip):
1548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1551 o Minor features (testing):
1552 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
1555 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
1556 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
1557 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
1560 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
1561 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
1562 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
1563 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
1564 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
1565 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
1566 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
1567 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
1568 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1570 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1571 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
1572 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
1574 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
1575 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
1576 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
1577 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
1579 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1580 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
1581 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
1582 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
1583 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1585 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
1586 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
1587 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
1588 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
1589 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
1590 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1592 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
1593 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
1594 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
1595 with the clang static analyzer.
1597 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1598 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
1599 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
1600 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
1601 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
1604 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
1605 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
1606 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
1607 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
1608 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
1609 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1610 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
1613 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
1614 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
1615 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
1616 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
1618 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1619 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
1620 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
1621 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
1622 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
1623 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
1624 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
1625 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
1626 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
1628 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1629 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
1630 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1631 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
1633 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1634 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
1635 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
1636 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
1637 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
1639 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1643 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
1644 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
1645 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1646 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
1648 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1649 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
1650 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1651 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
1652 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1653 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
1654 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
1655 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
1658 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1659 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
1660 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
1663 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1664 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
1665 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
1666 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
1667 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
1668 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1670 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1671 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
1672 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
1673 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
1676 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
1677 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1679 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
1680 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
1681 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1684 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
1685 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
1686 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
1687 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
1688 next version will be a release candidate.
1690 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
1691 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
1692 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
1693 one of those versions should upgrade.
1695 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
1696 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
1697 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
1698 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
1699 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
1700 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
1701 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
1702 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
1703 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
1705 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
1706 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
1707 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
1708 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
1709 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
1711 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
1712 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
1713 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
1714 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
1715 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
1716 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1718 o Minor features (bridge authority):
1719 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
1720 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
1722 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
1723 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
1724 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
1725 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
1726 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
1729 o Minor features (geoip):
1730 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1733 o Minor features (relay, performance):
1734 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
1735 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
1736 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
1737 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
1738 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
1741 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
1742 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
1743 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
1744 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
1745 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
1747 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
1748 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
1749 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
1750 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
1751 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
1754 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
1755 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1756 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
1757 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1758 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
1759 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
1760 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1761 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
1762 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
1763 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
1766 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
1767 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
1768 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
1769 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
1770 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
1771 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1773 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1774 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
1775 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
1776 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
1777 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
1778 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
1779 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
1780 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
1783 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
1784 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
1785 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
1788 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
1789 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
1790 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
1791 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1793 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1794 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
1795 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1797 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1798 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
1799 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
1800 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
1802 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1803 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
1804 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
1805 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
1806 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1807 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
1808 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1811 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
1812 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
1813 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
1814 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
1815 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
1818 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
1819 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
1823 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
1824 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
1825 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
1826 close ticket 22623.)
1828 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
1829 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
1830 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
1831 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
1832 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
1833 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
1835 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
1836 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
1837 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
1838 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1840 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
1841 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
1842 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
1843 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
1844 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1846 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
1847 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
1848 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
1849 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1851 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
1852 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
1853 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
1854 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
1856 o Minor features (geoip):
1857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1860 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
1861 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
1862 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
1864 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
1865 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1866 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
1867 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
1868 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
1869 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
1871 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
1872 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
1874 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
1875 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
1876 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
1877 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
1878 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1880 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
1881 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
1882 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
1883 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
1884 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
1885 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
1886 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
1887 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
1888 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
1889 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
1890 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
1891 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
1893 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1894 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
1895 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
1896 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
1897 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1898 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
1899 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
1900 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
1901 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1903 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1904 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
1905 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
1906 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1907 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
1908 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
1909 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1910 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
1911 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
1912 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
1913 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1914 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
1915 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
1916 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
1917 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
1918 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1920 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
1921 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
1922 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
1923 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
1924 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
1925 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
1926 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
1930 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
1932 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
1933 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
1935 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
1936 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
1937 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
1941 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
1942 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
1943 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
1944 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
1945 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
1948 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
1951 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1952 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
1953 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
1954 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
1955 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
1956 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
1958 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1959 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
1960 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
1961 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1963 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1964 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
1965 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
1966 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1968 o Minor features (geoip):
1969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
1972 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
1973 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
1974 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
1975 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
1976 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1978 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1979 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
1980 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
1981 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
1982 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1984 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
1985 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
1986 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
1987 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
1988 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
1989 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
1990 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
1991 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
1992 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
1995 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
1996 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
1997 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
1998 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
1999 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
2001 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
2002 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
2003 bugfixes described below.
2005 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2006 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
2007 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
2008 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2009 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2010 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2011 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2014 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
2015 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
2016 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
2017 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
2018 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
2019 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
2020 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
2023 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
2024 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
2025 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
2026 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
2027 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
2028 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
2029 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
2030 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2031 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
2032 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
2033 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
2034 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
2035 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
2038 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
2039 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
2040 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2042 o Minor features (code style):
2043 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
2044 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
2045 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
2047 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2048 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
2049 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
2050 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
2051 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2054 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2055 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
2058 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
2059 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2061 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
2062 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
2063 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
2064 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
2065 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
2066 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
2067 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2069 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
2070 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
2071 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
2072 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
2073 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2075 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
2076 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
2077 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
2081 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
2084 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
2085 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
2086 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2087 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2088 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
2090 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
2091 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
2092 bugfixes described below.
2094 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
2095 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2096 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
2097 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
2098 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2099 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2100 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2101 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2104 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2105 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
2106 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
2107 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
2108 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
2109 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
2110 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
2113 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2114 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
2115 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
2116 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
2117 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
2118 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
2119 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
2120 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2121 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
2122 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
2123 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
2124 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
2125 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
2128 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
2129 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
2130 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
2133 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2134 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
2135 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
2136 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
2137 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
2140 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
2141 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2143 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2144 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2145 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2147 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2148 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
2149 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
2150 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
2151 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
2152 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
2153 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2155 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
2157 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
2158 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
2159 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2162 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
2163 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2164 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2165 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2166 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2167 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2169 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
2170 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
2171 bugfixes described below.
2173 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
2174 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2175 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2176 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2177 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2180 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2181 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
2182 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
2183 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
2184 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
2185 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
2186 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
2189 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2190 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
2191 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
2192 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
2193 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
2195 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
2196 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
2197 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
2198 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
2199 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
2200 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
2201 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
2203 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
2204 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
2205 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
2206 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
2207 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
2209 o Minor features (geoip):
2210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2213 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
2214 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
2215 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
2216 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2218 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2219 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2220 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2222 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
2223 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
2224 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
2225 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
2226 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
2229 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
2230 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
2231 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
2232 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
2233 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2235 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
2236 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2237 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2238 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2239 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2240 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2242 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2243 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2244 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2245 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2248 o Minor features (geoip):
2249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2252 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
2253 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
2254 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
2255 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
2256 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
2258 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2259 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2260 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2262 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
2263 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2264 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2265 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2266 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2267 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2269 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2270 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2271 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2272 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2275 o Minor features (geoip):
2276 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2279 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2280 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2281 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2284 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
2285 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2286 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2287 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2288 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2289 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2291 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2292 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2293 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2294 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2297 o Minor features (geoip):
2298 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2301 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2302 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2303 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2305 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
2306 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2307 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2308 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2309 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2310 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2312 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2313 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2314 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2315 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2318 o Minor features (geoip):
2319 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2322 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2323 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2324 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2326 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
2327 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
2328 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
2329 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
2330 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
2331 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
2333 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
2334 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
2335 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
2336 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
2339 o Minor features (geoip):
2340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2343 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2344 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
2345 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2348 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
2349 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
2350 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
2351 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
2353 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
2354 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
2355 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
2356 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
2357 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2359 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2360 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
2361 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
2364 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
2365 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
2366 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
2367 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2370 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
2371 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
2372 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
2373 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
2374 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
2377 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
2378 security, correctness, and performance.
2380 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
2382 o Major features (directory protocol):
2383 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
2384 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
2385 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
2386 now request these documents when available. When both client and
2387 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
2388 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
2389 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel MartÃ.
2390 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
2391 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
2392 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
2393 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
2394 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
2395 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
2396 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
2397 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
2398 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
2399 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
2401 o Major features (experimental):
2402 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
2403 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
2404 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
2405 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
2406 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
2407 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
2408 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
2410 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
2411 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
2412 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
2413 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
2414 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
2415 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
2418 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
2419 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
2420 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
2421 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
2422 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
2423 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
2424 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
2425 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
2426 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
2427 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
2430 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
2431 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
2432 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
2433 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
2434 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
2435 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
2436 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
2437 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
2438 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
2439 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
2440 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
2441 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
2442 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
2443 Otherwise it is at info.
2445 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
2446 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
2447 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
2448 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2450 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
2451 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
2452 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2453 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
2455 o Minor features (security, windows):
2456 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
2457 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
2458 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
2459 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
2460 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
2462 o Minor features (config options):
2463 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
2464 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
2465 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
2466 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
2467 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
2468 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
2469 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
2470 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
2472 o Minor features (controller):
2473 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
2474 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
2476 o Minor features (defaults):
2477 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
2478 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
2479 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
2480 can. Closes ticket 21407.
2481 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
2482 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
2483 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
2484 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
2485 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
2486 Closes ticket 21641.
2488 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2489 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
2490 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
2491 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
2492 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
2493 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
2494 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
2496 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
2497 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
2498 introduction points than specified in
2499 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
2500 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
2501 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
2502 21594; closes ticket 21622.
2503 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
2504 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
2505 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
2506 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
2508 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2509 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
2510 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
2511 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
2512 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
2513 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
2514 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
2515 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
2516 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
2517 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
2519 o Minor features (logging):
2520 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
2521 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
2522 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
2523 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
2526 o Minor features (performance):
2527 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
2528 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
2530 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
2531 speed some controller functions.
2533 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
2534 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
2535 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
2536 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
2538 o Minor features (safety):
2539 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
2540 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
2541 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
2544 o Minor features (testing):
2545 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
2546 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
2547 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
2548 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
2549 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
2550 on. Closes ticket 21439.
2551 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
2552 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
2553 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
2554 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
2555 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
2556 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
2557 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
2558 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
2559 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
2560 21507. Partially implements 21470.
2562 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
2563 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
2564 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2565 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
2567 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2568 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
2569 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
2570 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
2573 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2574 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
2575 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2577 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
2578 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
2579 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
2580 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
2581 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
2582 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
2583 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
2584 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
2585 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
2586 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
2587 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
2588 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
2589 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
2590 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
2592 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2593 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
2594 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2595 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
2596 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
2597 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
2598 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
2599 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2601 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2602 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
2603 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
2604 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2605 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
2606 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
2607 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
2609 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
2610 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
2611 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
2612 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
2613 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
2615 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
2616 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
2617 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2618 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
2619 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
2620 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2621 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
2622 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2623 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
2624 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
2625 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2627 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2628 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
2629 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
2630 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2631 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
2632 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
2633 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2635 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
2636 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
2637 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
2640 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
2641 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
2642 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
2643 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2645 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2646 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
2647 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
2648 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2649 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
2650 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2651 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
2652 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
2653 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
2654 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
2656 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
2657 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
2658 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
2659 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
2660 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
2663 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
2664 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2666 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2667 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
2668 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
2669 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
2670 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
2671 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
2672 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
2673 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
2674 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
2675 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
2676 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
2677 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
2679 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
2680 Resolves ticket 22213.
2681 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
2682 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
2683 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
2684 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
2685 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
2686 types. Closes ticket 21651.
2687 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
2688 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
2691 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
2692 Closes ticket 21873.
2693 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
2694 Closes ticket 21151.
2695 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
2696 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
2698 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
2699 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2700 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
2701 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
2703 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
2704 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
2705 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
2706 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
2707 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
2708 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
2709 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
2710 default behavior is now unavailable.
2711 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
2712 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
2713 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
2714 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
2715 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
2716 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
2717 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
2719 o Removed features (tools):
2720 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
2721 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
2722 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
2723 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
2724 required. Closes ticket 21842.
2727 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
2728 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
2729 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
2730 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
2731 clients are not affected.
2733 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
2734 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
2735 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
2736 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
2737 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
2738 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2744 o Minor features (future-proofing):
2745 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
2746 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
2747 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
2748 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
2749 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
2750 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
2752 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2753 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
2754 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
2755 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
2756 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
2760 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
2761 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
2763 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
2764 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
2765 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
2766 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
2767 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
2768 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
2771 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
2772 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
2774 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
2775 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
2776 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
2777 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
2778 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
2780 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
2781 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2783 o Minor features (geoip):
2784 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2787 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2788 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
2789 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
2790 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2792 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
2793 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
2794 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
2795 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2798 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
2799 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
2800 0.3.0 release series.
2802 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
2803 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
2804 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
2807 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
2808 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
2809 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
2810 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
2812 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
2813 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
2814 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
2815 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2816 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
2818 o Minor features (geoip):
2819 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2822 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
2823 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
2824 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
2825 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
2828 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2829 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
2830 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
2831 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
2832 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
2833 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
2834 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
2835 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
2837 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2838 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
2839 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2841 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2842 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
2843 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
2846 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2847 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
2848 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
2849 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
2850 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2853 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
2854 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
2855 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
2859 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
2860 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
2861 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
2862 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
2863 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
2866 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
2867 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
2868 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
2870 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
2871 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
2872 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
2873 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
2874 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
2875 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
2876 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
2878 o Minor features (geoip):
2879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2883 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
2884 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
2885 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
2886 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
2889 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
2890 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
2891 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
2893 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
2894 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
2896 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
2897 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2898 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
2900 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
2901 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
2902 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
2905 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
2906 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
2907 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
2908 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
2909 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
2910 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
2911 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
2912 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
2913 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
2915 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
2916 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
2917 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
2918 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
2919 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2920 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
2921 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
2922 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
2923 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
2924 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
2925 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
2926 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
2927 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
2929 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
2930 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
2931 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
2932 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
2933 Reported by Guido Vranken.
2935 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
2936 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
2937 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
2939 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
2940 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
2941 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
2942 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
2943 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
2944 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
2945 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
2948 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
2949 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
2950 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
2951 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
2952 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
2953 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
2954 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
2956 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
2957 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
2958 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
2959 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
2962 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
2963 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
2964 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
2965 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
2967 o Minor features (geoip):
2968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
2972 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
2973 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
2974 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
2975 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
2978 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
2979 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
2980 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
2982 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
2983 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
2985 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
2986 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2987 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
2989 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
2990 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
2991 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
2994 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
2995 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
2996 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
2997 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
2998 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
2999 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
3000 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
3001 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
3002 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
3004 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
3005 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
3006 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
3007 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
3008 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
3009 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
3010 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
3011 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
3012 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
3014 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
3015 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
3016 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
3017 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
3018 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3020 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
3021 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
3022 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
3023 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
3024 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
3027 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3028 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
3029 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
3030 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
3031 Reported by Guido Vranken.
3033 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3034 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
3035 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3037 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3038 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
3039 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
3040 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
3041 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
3042 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
3045 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
3046 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
3047 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
3048 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
3049 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
3050 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
3051 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
3054 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
3055 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
3056 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
3057 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
3058 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
3059 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
3060 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
3062 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
3063 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
3064 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
3065 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
3068 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3069 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
3070 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
3071 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
3073 o Minor features (geoip):
3074 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3077 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3078 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
3079 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
3082 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
3083 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
3084 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
3085 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
3088 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
3089 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
3090 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
3092 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
3093 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
3095 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
3096 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3097 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
3099 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
3100 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
3101 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
3104 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
3105 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
3106 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
3107 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
3108 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
3109 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
3110 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
3111 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
3112 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
3114 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
3115 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
3116 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
3117 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
3118 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
3119 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
3120 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
3121 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
3122 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
3124 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
3125 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
3126 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
3127 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
3128 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3130 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
3131 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
3132 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
3133 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
3134 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
3137 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3138 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
3139 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
3140 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
3141 Reported by Guido Vranken.
3143 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3144 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
3145 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3147 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3148 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
3149 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
3150 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
3151 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
3152 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
3155 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
3156 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
3157 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
3158 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
3159 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
3160 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
3161 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
3164 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
3165 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
3166 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
3167 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
3168 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
3169 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
3170 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
3172 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
3173 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
3174 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
3175 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
3178 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3179 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
3180 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
3181 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
3183 o Minor features (geoip):
3184 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3188 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
3189 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
3191 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
3192 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
3193 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
3194 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
3195 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
3196 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
3198 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
3199 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
3200 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
3204 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
3205 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
3206 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
3207 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
3210 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
3211 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
3212 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
3214 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
3215 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
3217 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
3218 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3219 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
3221 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
3222 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
3223 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
3226 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
3227 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
3228 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
3229 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
3230 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
3231 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
3232 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
3233 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
3234 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
3236 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
3237 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
3238 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
3239 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
3240 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
3241 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
3242 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
3243 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
3244 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
3246 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
3247 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
3248 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
3249 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
3250 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
3253 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3254 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
3255 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
3256 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
3257 Reported by Guido Vranken.
3259 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3260 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
3261 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3263 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3264 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
3265 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
3266 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
3267 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
3268 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
3271 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
3272 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
3273 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
3274 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
3275 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
3276 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
3277 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
3280 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
3281 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
3282 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
3283 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
3284 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
3285 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
3286 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
3288 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
3289 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
3290 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
3291 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
3294 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
3295 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
3296 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
3297 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
3299 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
3300 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
3301 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
3302 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
3304 o Minor features (geoip):
3305 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
3309 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
3310 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
3312 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
3313 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
3314 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
3318 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
3319 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
3320 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
3321 keep them from coming back.
3323 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
3324 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
3325 will be nearly identical to it.
3327 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3328 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
3329 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
3330 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
3331 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
3332 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3334 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
3335 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
3336 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on tor-0.3.0.1-alpha.
3338 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
3339 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
3340 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
3341 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
3342 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
3343 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
3344 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
3345 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
3346 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
3347 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
3348 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
3349 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
3350 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
3351 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
3352 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
3354 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
3355 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
3356 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
3358 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3359 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
3360 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
3362 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
3363 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
3364 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3365 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
3366 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
3367 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
3368 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
3370 o Minor features (geoip):
3371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3374 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
3375 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
3376 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
3379 o Minor features (testing):
3380 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
3381 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
3382 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
3385 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
3386 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
3388 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3389 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
3390 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
3391 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
3392 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
3393 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
3396 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
3397 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
3398 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3399 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
3400 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
3401 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
3404 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3405 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
3406 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
3407 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3408 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
3409 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
3410 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3412 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3413 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
3414 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
3415 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
3416 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
3417 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3419 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3420 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
3421 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on tor-0.2.8.2. Patch
3423 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
3424 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3425 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
3426 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
3427 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3430 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
3433 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
3434 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
3435 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
3436 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
3438 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
3439 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
3440 least January of 2020.
3442 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
3443 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
3444 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
3445 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
3448 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
3449 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
3450 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
3451 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
3452 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
3453 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
3454 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3456 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
3457 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
3458 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
3459 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
3460 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
3461 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
3462 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
3464 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
3465 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
3466 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
3468 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
3469 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
3470 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3472 o Minor features (geoip):
3473 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3476 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
3477 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
3478 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
3480 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
3481 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
3483 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
3484 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
3485 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
3487 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
3488 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
3489 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
3490 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3491 Patch by "junglefowl".
3494 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
3495 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
3496 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
3497 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
3498 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
3499 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
3501 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
3502 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
3503 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
3506 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3507 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
3508 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
3509 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
3511 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
3512 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
3513 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
3514 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
3515 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3517 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
3518 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
3519 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
3520 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
3521 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3523 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
3524 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
3525 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
3526 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
3527 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
3528 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
3529 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3531 o Minor feature (client):
3532 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
3533 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
3535 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
3536 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
3537 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
3538 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
3540 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
3541 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
3542 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
3543 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
3544 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
3546 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
3547 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
3548 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
3549 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
3550 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
3551 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
3552 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
3553 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
3554 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
3555 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
3557 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
3558 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
3559 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
3561 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
3562 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
3564 o Minor features (relay):
3565 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
3566 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
3567 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
3568 Written by Michael Sonntag.
3570 o Minor bugfix (logging):
3571 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
3572 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
3573 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
3574 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
3577 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3578 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
3579 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
3580 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3582 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
3583 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
3584 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
3586 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
3587 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3588 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
3589 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
3590 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3591 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
3592 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
3594 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
3595 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
3596 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
3597 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
3598 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
3599 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
3600 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
3603 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3604 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
3605 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3607 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3608 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
3609 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
3610 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
3611 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3612 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
3613 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
3614 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
3616 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
3617 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
3618 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3620 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3621 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
3622 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
3623 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
3625 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
3626 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
3627 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
3628 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3630 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3631 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
3632 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
3633 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3634 Patch by "junglefowl".
3636 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
3637 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
3638 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
3642 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
3643 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
3644 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
3645 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
3646 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
3647 version should upgrade.
3649 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
3650 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
3651 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
3652 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
3653 the set of fallback directories, and more.
3655 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
3656 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
3657 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
3658 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
3659 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
3660 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
3663 o Major features (security):
3664 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
3665 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
3666 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
3667 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
3668 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
3669 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
3671 o Major features (directory authority, security):
3672 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
3673 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
3674 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
3676 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
3677 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
3678 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
3679 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
3680 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
3683 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
3684 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
3685 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
3686 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
3687 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
3688 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
3689 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
3690 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
3691 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
3692 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
3693 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3695 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
3696 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
3697 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3699 o Minor features (controller):
3700 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
3701 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
3703 o Minor features (entry guards):
3704 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
3705 break regression tests.
3706 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
3707 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
3709 o Minor features (fallback directories):
3710 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
3712 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
3713 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
3714 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
3715 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
3716 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
3717 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
3718 Closes ticket 20539.
3719 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
3721 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
3722 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
3723 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
3724 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
3725 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
3727 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
3728 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
3729 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
3730 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
3731 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
3732 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
3733 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
3734 Closes ticket 20822.
3735 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
3736 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
3738 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
3739 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3742 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
3743 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
3744 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
3745 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
3747 o Minor features (linting):
3748 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
3749 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
3751 o Minor features (logging):
3752 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
3753 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
3755 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
3756 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
3757 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
3758 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
3759 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
3760 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
3763 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
3764 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
3765 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
3767 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3768 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
3769 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
3772 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
3773 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
3774 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
3775 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (config):
3778 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
3779 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
3780 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
3781 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3784 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
3785 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
3788 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
3789 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
3790 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
3791 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
3792 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3794 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3795 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
3796 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
3798 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
3799 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
3800 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3801 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
3802 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
3803 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
3804 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
3805 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
3806 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
3808 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
3809 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
3810 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
3811 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3813 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3814 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
3815 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
3816 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3817 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
3818 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3820 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
3821 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
3822 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3823 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
3824 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
3825 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
3826 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
3827 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
3829 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3830 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
3831 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3833 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
3834 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
3835 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
3836 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
3838 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
3839 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3841 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3842 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
3843 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
3844 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
3845 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
3847 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3848 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
3849 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3851 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
3852 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
3853 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
3854 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
3855 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3857 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3858 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
3859 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
3861 o Documentation (formatting):
3862 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
3863 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
3865 o Documentation (man page):
3866 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
3867 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
3870 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
3871 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
3872 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
3873 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
3874 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
3875 version should upgrade.
3877 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
3878 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
3880 o Major bugfixes (security):
3881 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
3882 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
3883 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
3884 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
3885 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
3886 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3888 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
3889 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
3890 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
3891 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
3892 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
3893 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
3894 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
3895 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
3896 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
3897 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
3898 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3900 o Minor features (geoip):
3901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3904 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3905 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
3906 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
3907 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
3909 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
3910 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3913 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
3914 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
3915 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
3916 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
3917 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
3918 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
3919 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
3920 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
3922 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
3924 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
3925 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
3926 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
3927 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
3928 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
3931 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
3932 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
3933 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
3934 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
3935 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
3936 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
3937 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
3938 generation onion service work detailled in proposal 224. Closes
3941 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
3942 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
3943 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
3944 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
3945 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
3947 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
3948 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
3949 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
3950 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
3951 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
3952 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
3953 15056; part of proposal 220.
3954 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
3955 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
3956 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
3957 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
3958 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
3960 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
3961 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
3962 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
3963 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
3964 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3966 o Minor features (controller):
3967 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
3968 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
3971 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
3972 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
3973 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
3976 o Minor features (directory authority):
3977 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
3978 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
3979 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
3980 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
3981 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
3983 o Minor features (directory cache):
3984 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
3985 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
3988 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
3989 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
3990 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
3991 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
3993 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
3994 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
3995 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
3996 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
3998 o Minor features (infrastructure):
3999 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
4000 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
4002 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4003 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
4004 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
4005 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4007 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4008 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
4009 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4010 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
4011 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
4012 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4014 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
4015 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
4016 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
4017 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
4018 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
4020 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
4021 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
4022 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
4023 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
4024 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4026 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
4027 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
4028 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
4029 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
4030 on all recent tor versions.
4031 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
4032 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
4033 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
4034 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4036 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
4037 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
4038 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4041 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
4042 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
4043 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
4046 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
4047 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
4048 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
4051 o Minor bugfixes (util):
4052 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
4053 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
4054 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
4055 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on tor-0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
4057 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4058 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
4059 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
4060 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
4062 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4063 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
4064 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
4065 Closes ticket 19858.
4066 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
4067 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
4068 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
4069 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
4070 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
4071 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
4072 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
4073 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
4074 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
4075 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
4076 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
4077 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
4078 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
4079 redundant with the similar structures used in the
4080 channel abstraction.
4081 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
4082 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
4083 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
4084 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
4085 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
4086 replaced with code automatically generated by the
4090 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
4091 20622; bugfix on tor-0.2.5.1-alpha.
4092 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
4093 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
4095 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
4096 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
4097 on tor-0.2.5.6-alpha.
4098 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
4099 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
4100 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
4101 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
4102 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
4106 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
4107 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
4108 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
4110 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
4111 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
4112 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
4115 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
4116 from "overcaffeinated".
4117 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
4118 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
4119 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
4120 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
4121 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
4125 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
4126 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
4127 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
4128 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
4129 become available for their systems.
4131 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
4134 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
4135 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
4137 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
4138 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
4139 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
4140 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
4141 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
4142 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
4143 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
4144 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
4145 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
4147 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
4148 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
4149 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
4150 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
4151 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
4153 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
4154 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4158 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
4159 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
4161 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
4162 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
4163 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
4164 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
4165 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
4166 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
4167 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
4168 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
4170 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
4172 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
4173 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
4174 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
4175 become available for their systems.
4177 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
4178 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4180 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
4181 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
4182 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
4183 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
4184 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
4185 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
4186 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
4187 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
4188 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
4190 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4191 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
4192 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
4193 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
4194 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
4197 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
4198 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
4199 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
4202 o Minor features (geoip):
4203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4206 o Minor bugfix (build):
4207 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
4208 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
4209 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4211 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
4212 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
4213 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
4214 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4216 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
4217 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
4218 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
4220 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4221 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
4222 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
4225 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
4226 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
4227 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4228 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
4229 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
4230 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
4232 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4233 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
4234 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
4235 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
4237 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4238 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
4239 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
4241 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4242 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
4243 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
4244 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
4245 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
4246 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
4247 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4248 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
4249 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
4250 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
4253 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
4254 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
4255 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
4256 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
4259 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4260 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
4261 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
4262 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
4263 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
4264 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
4267 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
4268 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
4269 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
4272 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
4273 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
4274 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
4275 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
4277 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
4278 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
4279 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
4280 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
4283 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
4284 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
4285 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
4286 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
4289 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
4290 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
4291 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
4294 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
4295 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
4296 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4298 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
4299 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
4300 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
4302 o Minor features (geoip):
4303 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4306 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
4307 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
4308 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
4309 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
4310 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
4312 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
4313 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
4314 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
4315 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
4316 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
4317 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4319 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
4320 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
4321 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4323 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4324 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
4325 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
4326 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
4327 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
4328 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
4330 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4331 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
4332 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
4334 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
4335 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4337 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
4338 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
4339 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
4340 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
4341 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
4342 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
4344 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4345 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
4346 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
4350 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
4351 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
4354 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
4355 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
4356 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
4357 everyone to test this release.
4359 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
4360 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
4361 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
4362 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
4365 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
4366 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
4367 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
4368 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
4371 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
4372 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
4373 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
4374 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
4375 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4376 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
4377 download, stop waiting for certificates.
4378 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
4379 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
4380 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
4382 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
4383 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
4384 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
4385 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4386 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
4387 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4388 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
4389 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
4390 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4391 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
4392 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
4393 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
4395 o Minor features (geoip):
4396 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4399 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
4400 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
4401 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
4402 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
4403 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
4404 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4406 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
4407 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
4408 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
4409 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4410 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
4411 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4413 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4414 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
4415 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
4416 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
4419 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4420 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
4421 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
4422 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
4423 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
4424 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4425 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
4426 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4428 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
4429 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
4430 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4432 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4433 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
4434 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
4435 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
4436 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4437 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
4438 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
4439 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4441 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
4442 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
4443 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
4446 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4447 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
4448 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4451 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
4452 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4453 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
4454 tickets 19287 and 19290.
4457 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
4458 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
4459 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
4460 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
4461 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
4464 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
4465 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
4466 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
4467 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
4468 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
4469 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
4470 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
4471 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
4472 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
4474 o Minor features (geoip):
4475 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4479 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
4480 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
4481 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
4482 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
4483 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
4486 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
4487 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
4488 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
4489 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
4490 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
4491 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
4492 be a release candidate.
4494 o Major features (security fixes):
4495 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
4496 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
4497 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
4498 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
4499 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
4500 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
4501 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
4502 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
4504 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
4505 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
4506 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
4507 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
4508 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
4509 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
4510 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
4511 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
4512 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
4513 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
4514 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
4515 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
4516 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
4517 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
4520 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
4521 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
4522 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
4524 o Minor features (client, directory):
4525 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
4526 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
4527 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
4530 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
4531 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
4534 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
4535 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
4536 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
4539 o Minor features (geoip):
4540 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4543 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
4544 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
4545 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
4546 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
4547 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
4549 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
4550 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
4551 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
4552 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
4555 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
4556 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
4557 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
4558 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
4559 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
4561 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
4562 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
4563 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
4566 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
4567 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
4568 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
4569 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
4571 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4572 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
4573 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
4574 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
4576 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
4577 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
4578 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
4579 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
4582 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
4583 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
4584 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
4588 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
4589 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
4591 o Required libraries:
4592 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
4593 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
4594 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
4597 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
4598 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
4599 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
4600 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
4601 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
4602 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
4603 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
4604 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
4606 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
4607 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
4608 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
4609 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
4610 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
4611 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4613 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
4614 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
4615 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
4616 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
4617 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
4620 o Major features (circuit building, security):
4621 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
4622 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
4623 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
4625 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
4626 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
4628 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
4629 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
4630 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
4631 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
4632 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
4633 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
4634 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
4635 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
4636 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
4637 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
4638 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
4640 o Major features (resource management):
4641 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
4642 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
4643 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
4644 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
4645 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
4646 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
4648 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
4649 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
4650 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
4651 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
4653 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
4654 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
4655 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
4656 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4658 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4659 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
4660 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
4661 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
4662 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
4663 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
4665 o Minor features (security, TLS):
4666 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
4667 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
4668 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
4669 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
4671 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
4672 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
4673 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
4674 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
4676 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
4677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4680 o Minor feature (port flags):
4681 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
4682 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
4683 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
4684 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
4685 18693; patch by "teor".
4687 o Minor features (directory authority):
4688 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
4689 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
4690 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
4692 o Minor features (testing):
4693 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
4694 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
4695 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
4696 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
4698 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
4699 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
4700 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
4701 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
4702 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
4703 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
4704 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
4705 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
4706 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
4708 o Minor features (Tor2web):
4709 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
4710 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
4711 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
4713 o Minor features (unit tests):
4714 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
4715 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
4716 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
4717 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
4718 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
4719 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
4720 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
4721 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
4723 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
4724 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
4725 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
4726 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
4727 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
4728 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
4729 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
4730 assertion as a test failure.
4732 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
4733 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
4734 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
4735 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
4736 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
4737 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
4739 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
4740 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
4741 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
4742 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
4743 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
4744 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
4745 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
4746 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
4747 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
4748 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
4749 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4750 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4751 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
4752 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
4753 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
4754 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4756 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
4757 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
4758 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
4759 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
4760 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4761 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
4762 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
4765 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4766 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
4767 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
4768 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
4769 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
4770 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
4771 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
4774 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4775 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
4776 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
4777 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
4779 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
4780 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
4781 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
4783 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4784 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
4785 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
4786 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
4787 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
4788 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4790 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4791 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
4792 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
4793 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
4795 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
4796 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
4797 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
4799 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
4800 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
4801 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
4802 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
4803 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
4804 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
4806 o Minor bugfixes (options):
4807 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
4808 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
4810 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
4811 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
4812 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4815 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
4816 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
4817 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
4818 19678. Patch by teor.
4820 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4821 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
4822 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
4823 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
4824 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
4825 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
4827 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
4828 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
4832 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
4833 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
4834 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
4835 who select public relays as their bridges.
4837 o Major bugfixes (crash):
4838 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
4839 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
4840 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
4841 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
4842 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4844 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
4845 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
4846 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
4847 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
4848 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
4851 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
4852 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
4853 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
4854 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
4856 o Minor features (geoip):
4857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4861 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
4862 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
4863 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
4864 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
4865 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
4866 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
4868 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
4869 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
4870 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
4872 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
4873 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
4874 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
4875 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
4876 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
4877 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4879 o Major features (user interface):
4880 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
4881 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
4882 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
4884 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
4885 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
4886 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
4887 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4889 o Minor features (config):
4890 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
4891 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
4893 o Minor features (geoip):
4894 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4897 o Minor features (user interface):
4898 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
4899 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
4902 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
4903 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
4904 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
4906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4907 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
4908 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
4910 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
4911 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
4912 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
4913 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
4916 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
4917 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
4920 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
4921 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
4922 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
4923 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
4925 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4926 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
4927 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
4929 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
4930 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
4931 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4933 o Deprecated features:
4934 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
4935 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
4936 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad
4937 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
4938 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
4939 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
4940 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
4941 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
4942 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
4943 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
4944 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
4945 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
4946 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
4947 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
4948 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
4949 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
4950 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
4951 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
4952 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
4953 and TransListenAddress.
4956 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
4957 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
4960 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
4961 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
4964 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
4965 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
4966 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
4967 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
4968 encouraged to upgrade.
4970 o Directory authority changes:
4971 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
4972 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
4974 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
4975 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
4976 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
4977 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
4978 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
4979 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4981 o Minor features (geoip):
4982 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
4985 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4986 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
4987 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
4990 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
4991 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
4992 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
4993 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
4996 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
4997 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
4998 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
4999 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
5000 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
5001 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
5002 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
5003 security, correctness, and performance.
5005 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
5007 o New system requirements:
5008 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
5009 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
5010 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
5011 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
5012 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
5013 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
5014 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
5015 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
5017 o Major features (build, hardening):
5018 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
5019 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
5020 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
5021 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
5022 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
5023 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
5024 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
5025 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
5026 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
5028 o Major features (compilation):
5029 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
5030 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
5031 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
5032 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
5034 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
5035 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
5036 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
5038 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
5039 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
5040 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
5041 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
5042 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
5043 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
5044 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
5045 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
5047 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
5048 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
5049 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
5050 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
5051 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
5052 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
5053 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
5055 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
5056 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
5057 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
5058 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
5059 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
5060 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
5061 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
5063 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
5064 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
5065 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
5066 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
5067 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
5069 o Minor features (build, hardening):
5070 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
5071 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
5072 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
5073 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
5074 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
5075 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
5076 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
5077 Closes ticket 18895.
5079 o Minor features (code safety):
5080 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
5081 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
5084 o Minor features (controller):
5085 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
5086 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
5087 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
5088 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
5089 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
5090 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
5091 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
5092 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
5094 o Minor features (directory authority):
5095 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
5096 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
5097 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
5098 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
5099 Implements ticket 18624.
5100 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
5101 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
5102 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
5105 o Minor features (hidden service):
5106 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
5107 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
5108 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
5111 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
5112 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
5113 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
5114 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
5115 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
5116 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
5117 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
5118 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
5119 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
5120 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
5121 Closes ticket 18365.
5123 o Minor features (logging):
5124 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
5125 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
5126 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
5127 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
5128 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
5129 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
5130 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
5131 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
5132 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
5133 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
5135 o Minor features (performance):
5136 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
5137 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
5138 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
5139 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
5140 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
5141 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
5142 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
5144 o Minor features (relay, usability):
5145 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
5146 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
5147 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
5148 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
5151 o Minor features (testing):
5152 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
5153 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5154 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
5155 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
5156 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
5157 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
5158 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
5159 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
5162 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5163 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
5164 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
5165 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
5166 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5168 o Minor bugfixes (build):
5169 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
5170 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
5171 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
5172 patch from "cypherpunks".
5174 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
5175 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
5176 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5178 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5179 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
5180 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
5181 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5183 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5184 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
5185 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
5186 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5187 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
5188 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
5189 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
5190 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5192 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5193 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
5194 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
5195 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
5196 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
5197 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
5198 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
5200 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
5201 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
5202 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
5205 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
5206 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
5207 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
5209 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
5210 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
5211 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
5214 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
5215 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
5216 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
5217 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
5220 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5221 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
5222 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
5224 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5225 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
5226 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
5229 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5230 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
5231 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
5232 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
5233 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
5234 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
5235 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5236 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
5237 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
5240 o Minor bugfixes (time):
5241 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
5242 bugfix on all released tor versions.
5243 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
5244 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
5245 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
5246 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
5249 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
5250 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
5251 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
5252 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
5254 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
5255 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5257 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5258 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
5260 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
5261 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
5262 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
5263 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
5266 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
5267 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
5270 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
5271 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
5272 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
5273 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
5274 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
5275 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
5276 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
5279 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
5280 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
5281 command-line options to enable them.
5282 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
5283 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
5286 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
5288 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
5290 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
5291 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
5292 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
5293 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
5294 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
5295 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5297 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
5299 o Minor features (geoip):
5300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
5303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5304 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
5305 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5307 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
5308 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
5309 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5310 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
5312 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5313 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
5314 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
5315 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
5316 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
5317 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
5318 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
5319 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5322 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
5323 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
5324 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
5325 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
5326 against previous versions.
5328 o Directory authority changes:
5329 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
5331 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
5332 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
5333 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
5334 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
5336 o Minor features (build):
5337 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
5338 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
5339 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
5340 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5341 Patch from intrigeri.
5343 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
5344 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
5345 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
5348 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
5349 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
5350 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
5351 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
5352 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
5355 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5356 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
5357 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
5358 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
5359 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
5360 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
5361 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
5363 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
5364 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
5365 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
5366 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
5368 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
5369 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
5370 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
5371 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
5372 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
5373 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5375 o Fallback directory list:
5376 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
5377 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
5378 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
5379 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
5380 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
5381 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
5382 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
5383 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
5384 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
5387 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
5388 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
5389 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
5390 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
5393 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
5394 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
5395 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
5396 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5398 o Minor features (build):
5399 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
5400 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
5402 o Minor features (geoip):
5403 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
5406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5407 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
5408 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5410 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
5411 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
5412 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
5413 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
5417 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
5418 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
5419 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
5420 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
5421 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
5424 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
5425 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
5426 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
5427 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
5428 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5430 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
5431 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
5432 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
5433 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
5434 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
5435 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
5437 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
5438 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
5439 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
5440 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5442 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
5443 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
5444 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
5445 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
5446 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
5447 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
5448 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
5450 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
5451 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
5453 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
5454 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
5455 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
5457 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5458 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
5459 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
5460 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
5461 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
5462 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5465 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
5466 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
5467 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
5470 o Major bugfixes (key management):
5471 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
5472 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
5473 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
5474 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
5475 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
5476 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
5479 o Major bugfixes (testing):
5480 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
5481 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
5482 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
5483 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5485 o Minor features (clients):
5486 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
5487 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
5488 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
5490 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5491 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
5492 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
5493 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
5494 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
5495 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
5496 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
5497 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
5498 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
5499 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
5501 o Minor features (geoip):
5502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
5505 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
5506 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
5507 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
5510 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5511 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
5512 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
5514 o Minor bugfixes (build):
5515 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
5516 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
5518 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
5519 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
5521 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
5522 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
5525 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5526 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
5527 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
5528 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
5529 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5530 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
5531 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
5532 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
5534 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
5535 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
5536 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
5537 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
5538 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
5541 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
5542 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
5543 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5544 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
5545 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
5548 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
5549 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
5550 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
5551 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
5552 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
5553 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5555 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5556 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
5557 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
5558 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5559 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
5560 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5561 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
5562 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5564 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5565 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
5566 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
5567 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5569 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
5570 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
5571 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
5572 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
5573 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
5574 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
5577 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5578 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
5579 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
5581 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
5582 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
5583 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5585 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5586 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
5587 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
5589 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5590 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
5591 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
5592 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
5593 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
5594 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
5595 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5597 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
5598 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
5599 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
5600 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5603 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
5604 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
5605 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
5606 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
5609 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
5610 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
5611 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
5612 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
5613 directory support should also be much improved.
5615 o New system requirements:
5616 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
5617 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
5618 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
5619 longer runs with, these versions.
5620 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
5621 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
5622 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
5624 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
5625 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
5626 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
5627 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
5628 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
5630 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
5631 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
5632 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
5633 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
5634 Reported by Guido Vranken.
5636 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
5637 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
5638 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
5639 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
5640 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
5642 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5643 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
5644 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
5645 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5647 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
5648 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
5649 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5650 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
5651 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5653 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
5654 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
5655 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
5656 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
5657 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
5658 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5661 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
5662 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
5663 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5665 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
5666 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
5667 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
5668 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
5671 o Major bugfixes (voting):
5672 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
5673 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
5674 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
5675 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
5677 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
5678 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
5679 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
5680 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5681 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
5682 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
5683 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
5684 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
5685 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
5686 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5688 o Minor features (security, win32):
5689 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
5690 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
5693 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
5694 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
5695 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
5696 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
5698 o Minor features (build):
5699 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
5700 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
5703 o Minor features (code hardening):
5704 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
5705 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
5706 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
5709 o Minor features (crypto):
5710 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
5711 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
5714 o Minor features (geoip):
5715 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
5718 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
5719 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
5720 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
5721 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
5722 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
5724 o Minor features (IPv6):
5725 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
5726 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
5727 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
5728 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
5729 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
5730 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
5731 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
5733 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5734 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
5735 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
5736 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
5739 o Minor features (robustness):
5740 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
5741 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
5742 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
5744 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
5745 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
5746 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
5747 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
5748 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
5749 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
5750 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
5753 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
5754 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
5755 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
5756 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
5757 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
5759 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
5760 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
5761 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
5762 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
5764 o Minor bugfixes (build):
5765 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
5766 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
5768 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
5769 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
5770 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
5771 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
5772 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
5773 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
5776 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
5777 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
5778 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
5779 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5781 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5782 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
5783 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
5784 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
5787 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5788 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
5789 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5791 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
5792 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
5793 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
5794 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5796 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5797 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
5798 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
5799 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
5800 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
5801 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5803 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5804 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
5805 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
5806 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
5808 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
5809 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
5810 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
5811 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
5812 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
5814 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
5815 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
5816 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
5817 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
5818 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
5819 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
5820 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
5821 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
5822 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
5825 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
5826 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
5827 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
5828 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5830 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
5831 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
5832 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
5834 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5835 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
5836 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
5837 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5838 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
5839 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
5840 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5841 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
5842 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5844 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5845 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
5846 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
5847 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5848 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
5849 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
5850 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
5851 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
5852 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
5853 Christian, patch by teor.
5855 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
5856 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
5857 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
5858 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
5860 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
5861 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
5862 patch by "cypherpunks".
5863 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
5865 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
5866 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5868 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
5869 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
5870 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
5871 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
5873 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
5874 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
5875 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
5878 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5879 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
5880 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
5881 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
5882 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
5883 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5885 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
5886 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
5887 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
5888 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
5890 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
5891 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
5892 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
5893 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
5895 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5896 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
5897 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
5898 17744. Patch from zerosion.
5899 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
5900 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
5901 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
5902 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
5903 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
5906 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
5907 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
5908 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
5911 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
5912 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
5913 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
5916 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
5918 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
5919 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
5922 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
5923 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
5924 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
5925 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
5926 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
5928 o Major features (security, Linux):
5929 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
5930 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
5931 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
5932 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
5933 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
5935 o Major features (directory system):
5936 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
5937 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
5938 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
5939 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
5940 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
5941 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
5942 "mikeperry" and "teor".
5943 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
5944 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
5945 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
5946 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
5947 15775. Patch by "teor".
5948 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
5949 "gsathya", and "karsten".
5950 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
5951 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
5952 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
5953 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
5954 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
5957 o Major key updates:
5958 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
5959 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
5962 o Minor features (security, clock):
5963 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
5964 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
5965 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
5966 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
5968 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
5969 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
5970 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
5971 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
5972 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
5973 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
5975 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
5976 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
5977 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
5978 Implements ticket 17026.
5979 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
5980 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
5981 Implements feature 17986.
5982 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
5983 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
5984 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
5985 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
5986 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
5987 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
5990 o Minor features (security, RNG):
5991 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
5992 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
5993 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
5994 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
5995 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
5996 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
5997 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
5998 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
5999 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
6000 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
6003 o Minor features (accounting):
6004 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
6005 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
6006 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
6007 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
6009 o Minor features (build):
6010 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
6011 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
6012 patch from "cypherpunks."
6013 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
6014 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
6015 17549, 17921, and 17984.
6017 o Minor features (controller):
6018 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
6019 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
6020 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
6021 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
6022 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
6023 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
6024 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
6025 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
6028 o Minor features (crypto):
6029 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
6031 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
6032 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
6033 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
6034 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
6035 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
6036 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
6037 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
6038 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6040 o Minor features (directory downloads):
6041 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
6042 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
6043 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
6044 17864; patch by "teor".
6045 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
6046 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
6047 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
6049 o Minor features (geoip):
6050 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
6053 o Minor features (IPv6):
6054 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
6055 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
6056 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
6057 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
6058 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
6059 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
6060 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
6061 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
6062 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
6063 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
6064 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
6066 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
6067 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
6068 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
6069 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
6071 o Minor features (logging):
6072 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
6073 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
6074 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
6075 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
6078 o Minor features (portability):
6079 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
6080 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
6082 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
6083 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
6084 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
6085 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
6086 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
6088 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
6089 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
6090 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
6091 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
6092 Resolves ticket 17951.
6094 o Minor features (replay cache):
6095 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
6096 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
6098 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
6099 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
6100 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
6101 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
6102 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
6103 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
6104 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
6105 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
6106 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
6107 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
6108 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
6109 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
6110 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
6111 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
6114 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
6115 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
6118 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6119 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
6120 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
6121 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6122 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
6123 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
6125 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
6128 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6129 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
6130 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
6131 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6132 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
6133 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
6134 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6135 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
6137 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
6138 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
6139 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
6140 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
6141 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
6142 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
6143 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
6144 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
6146 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
6147 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
6150 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
6151 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
6153 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
6154 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
6155 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
6156 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
6158 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6159 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
6160 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6162 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6163 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
6164 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
6166 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6167 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
6168 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
6169 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
6170 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
6172 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
6173 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6175 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6176 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
6177 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
6180 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
6181 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
6182 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
6183 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
6184 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
6185 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
6187 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
6188 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
6189 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
6190 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
6191 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
6193 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
6194 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
6195 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
6198 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
6199 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
6200 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
6201 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6202 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
6203 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
6204 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
6205 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
6208 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6209 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
6210 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
6211 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
6212 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
6213 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6214 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
6215 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
6216 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
6217 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
6219 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
6220 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
6222 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6223 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
6224 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
6225 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
6226 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
6227 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
6228 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
6229 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
6230 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
6231 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
6233 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
6234 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
6235 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
6236 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
6238 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
6239 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
6240 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
6241 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
6242 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
6244 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
6245 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
6248 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
6249 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
6250 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
6251 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
6252 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
6253 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
6254 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
6258 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
6259 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
6260 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
6261 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
6262 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
6265 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
6266 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
6267 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
6268 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
6269 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
6270 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
6271 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
6272 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
6273 portion of ticket 16831.
6274 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
6275 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
6276 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
6278 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
6279 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
6282 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
6283 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
6284 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
6286 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
6287 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6288 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6289 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6290 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6291 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6294 o Minor features (geoip):
6295 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
6298 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6299 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
6300 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6301 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
6302 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6303 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6305 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6306 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
6307 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
6308 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
6309 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
6310 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
6311 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
6312 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6313 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
6314 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6317 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
6318 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
6319 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
6320 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
6321 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
6322 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
6323 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
6324 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
6325 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
6326 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
6327 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
6328 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
6329 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
6330 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
6331 that would make him proud.
6333 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
6335 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
6336 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
6337 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
6338 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
6339 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
6340 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
6341 of Tor invoke which others.
6343 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
6346 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
6347 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
6348 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
6349 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
6350 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
6351 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
6352 release will the the official stable release.
6354 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
6355 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6356 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6357 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6358 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6361 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
6362 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
6363 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
6365 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
6366 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
6367 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6368 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
6369 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
6370 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
6371 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
6373 o Minor features (geoIP):
6374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
6377 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6378 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
6379 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
6380 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
6381 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6382 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
6383 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
6385 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6386 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
6387 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
6390 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
6391 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
6392 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
6393 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
6395 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6396 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
6397 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
6398 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
6399 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
6400 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
6401 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
6402 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
6403 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
6404 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
6405 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
6409 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
6410 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
6414 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
6415 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
6416 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
6417 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
6418 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
6420 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
6421 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
6422 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
6423 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
6425 o Major features (security, hidden services):
6426 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
6427 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
6428 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
6429 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
6430 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
6431 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
6432 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
6434 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
6435 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
6436 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
6437 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
6438 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
6439 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
6442 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
6443 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
6444 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
6445 available. Implements ticket 16535.
6446 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
6447 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
6450 o Major features (performance testing):
6451 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
6452 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
6453 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
6455 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
6456 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
6457 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
6458 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
6460 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
6461 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
6462 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
6463 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
6464 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
6465 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
6467 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
6468 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
6470 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
6471 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
6472 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
6473 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
6474 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
6476 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
6477 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
6478 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
6479 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
6480 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
6481 own. Implements feature 15482.
6482 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
6483 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
6485 o Minor features (compilation):
6486 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
6487 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
6488 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
6489 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
6490 which started requiring ECC.
6492 o Minor features (geoip):
6493 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
6496 o Minor features (hidden services):
6497 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
6498 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
6499 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
6500 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
6501 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
6502 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
6503 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
6504 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
6506 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
6507 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
6508 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
6511 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
6512 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
6513 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
6514 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
6516 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
6517 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
6518 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
6519 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
6520 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
6522 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
6523 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
6524 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
6525 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
6526 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6527 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
6528 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
6529 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
6530 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
6531 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
6532 Related to ticket 16069.
6533 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
6534 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
6535 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
6536 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
6537 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
6538 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6540 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
6541 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
6542 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6543 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
6544 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
6546 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
6547 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
6548 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6550 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6551 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
6552 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
6553 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6555 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6556 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
6557 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
6558 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
6559 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6561 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6562 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
6563 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
6564 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
6565 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6566 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
6567 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
6568 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
6569 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
6570 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
6571 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
6574 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
6575 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
6576 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6578 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6579 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
6580 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6581 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
6582 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6584 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
6585 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
6586 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
6587 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
6589 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6590 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
6591 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
6593 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
6594 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6595 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
6596 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
6597 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
6598 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6599 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
6600 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6602 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6603 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
6604 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
6605 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
6606 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
6608 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
6609 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
6612 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6613 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
6614 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
6615 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
6616 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
6617 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
6618 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
6619 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
6620 function. Closes ticket 16763.
6621 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
6622 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
6623 suite of other microdesc functions.
6624 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
6625 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
6626 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
6627 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
6628 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
6629 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
6630 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
6631 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
6632 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
6633 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
6635 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
6636 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
6638 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
6641 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
6642 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
6643 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
6644 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
6648 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
6649 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
6650 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
6651 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
6652 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
6653 Closes ticket 13338.
6654 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
6655 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
6656 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
6657 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
6658 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
6659 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
6662 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
6663 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
6664 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
6665 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
6666 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
6667 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
6668 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
6670 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
6671 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
6672 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
6673 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
6674 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
6675 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
6676 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
6677 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
6678 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
6679 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
6680 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
6681 network before we begin.
6682 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
6683 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
6684 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
6685 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
6686 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
6687 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
6688 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
6689 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
6692 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
6693 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
6694 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
6695 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
6696 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
6697 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
6699 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
6700 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
6701 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
6703 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
6704 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
6705 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
6706 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
6707 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
6708 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
6709 Implements part of ticket 12498.
6710 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
6711 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
6712 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
6713 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
6714 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
6715 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
6716 part of ticket 12498.
6717 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
6718 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
6719 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
6720 key). Closes ticket 13642.
6722 o Major features (Hidden services):
6723 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
6724 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
6725 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
6726 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
6727 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
6729 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
6730 introduction points, which used to change the number of
6731 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
6732 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
6734 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
6735 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
6736 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
6737 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
6738 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
6739 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
6741 o Major features (performance):
6742 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
6743 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
6744 Implements ticket 16467.
6745 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
6746 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
6747 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
6748 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
6750 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
6751 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
6752 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
6753 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
6754 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
6755 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
6757 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
6758 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
6759 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
6760 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
6761 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
6762 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
6763 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
6764 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
6767 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6768 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
6769 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
6770 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
6771 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
6772 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
6773 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
6776 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
6777 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
6778 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
6779 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
6780 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
6781 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6783 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
6784 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
6785 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
6786 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
6787 by "cypherpunks_backup".
6788 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
6789 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
6790 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
6793 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
6794 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
6795 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
6796 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
6797 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
6798 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
6799 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
6801 o Minor features (client):
6802 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
6803 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
6804 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
6806 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
6807 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
6808 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
6809 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6810 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
6811 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
6812 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
6815 o Minor features (control protocol):
6816 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
6817 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
6819 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6820 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
6821 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
6822 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
6823 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
6824 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
6826 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
6827 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
6828 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
6830 o Minor features (hidden services):
6831 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
6832 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
6833 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
6834 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
6837 o Minor features (portability):
6838 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
6839 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
6840 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
6843 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
6844 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
6845 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
6847 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6848 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
6849 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
6850 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6852 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
6853 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
6854 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
6855 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
6856 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
6857 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
6859 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6860 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
6861 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
6862 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6863 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
6864 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
6865 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6867 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6868 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
6869 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6871 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
6872 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
6873 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
6874 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
6876 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
6877 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
6878 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
6879 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
6881 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
6882 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
6885 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6886 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
6887 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
6890 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
6891 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
6892 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6893 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
6894 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
6895 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
6897 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6898 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
6899 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6901 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
6902 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
6903 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
6905 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
6906 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
6907 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6908 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
6909 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6910 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
6911 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
6912 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
6913 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6915 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6916 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
6917 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
6918 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
6919 haven't supported that in ages.
6920 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
6921 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
6922 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
6923 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
6926 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
6927 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
6928 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
6929 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
6930 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
6931 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
6934 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
6935 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
6936 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
6937 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
6938 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
6939 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
6940 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
6941 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
6942 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
6943 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
6944 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
6945 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
6946 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
6947 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
6948 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
6949 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
6950 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
6953 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
6954 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
6955 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
6956 Closes ticket 15817.
6957 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
6958 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
6960 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
6961 default as a part of "make check".
6962 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
6963 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
6964 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
6965 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
6969 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
6970 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
6971 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
6972 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
6973 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
6974 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
6976 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
6977 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
6978 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
6979 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
6980 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
6981 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
6982 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
6983 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
6986 o Major bugfixes (stability):
6987 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
6988 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
6989 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
6990 by "cypherpunks_backup".
6991 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
6992 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
6993 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
6996 o Minor features (geoip):
6997 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
6998 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7000 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
7001 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
7002 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
7003 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
7004 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
7005 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
7007 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7008 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
7009 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
7010 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
7013 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
7014 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
7015 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
7016 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
7017 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
7019 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
7020 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
7021 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
7022 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
7023 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
7026 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
7027 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
7028 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
7029 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
7030 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
7031 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
7032 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
7034 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7035 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
7036 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
7037 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
7039 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7040 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
7041 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
7042 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
7043 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
7044 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
7047 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7048 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
7049 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
7052 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
7053 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
7054 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
7055 authorities should upgrade.
7057 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7058 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
7059 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
7060 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
7063 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
7064 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7065 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7068 o Minor features (geoip):
7069 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7070 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
7074 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
7075 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
7076 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
7077 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
7078 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
7079 the hidden services subsystem.
7081 o New system requirements:
7082 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
7083 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
7086 o Major features (controller):
7087 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
7088 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
7090 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
7091 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
7092 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
7093 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
7094 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
7095 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
7096 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
7098 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7099 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
7100 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
7101 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
7104 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
7105 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
7106 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
7107 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
7108 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
7110 o Minor features (command-line interface):
7111 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
7112 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7113 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
7114 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
7116 o Minor features (controller):
7117 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
7118 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
7119 present. Implements ticket 14840.
7120 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
7121 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
7122 Closes ticket 14845.
7123 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
7124 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
7125 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
7127 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
7128 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
7129 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
7130 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
7132 o Minor features (geoip):
7133 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7134 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
7137 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
7138 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
7139 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
7140 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
7141 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
7142 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
7143 Closes ticket 15745.
7145 o Minor features (logging):
7146 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
7147 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
7150 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7151 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
7152 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
7153 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
7155 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
7156 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
7157 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
7158 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
7159 Resolves ticket 15435.
7161 o Minor features (testing):
7162 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
7163 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
7164 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
7165 files. Closes ticket 15180.
7166 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
7167 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
7168 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
7169 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
7170 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
7171 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
7172 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
7173 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
7174 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
7175 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
7176 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
7177 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
7179 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7180 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
7181 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
7184 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
7185 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
7186 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
7188 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
7191 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
7192 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
7193 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
7194 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
7195 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
7196 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
7197 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
7198 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
7200 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7201 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
7202 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
7204 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
7205 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
7206 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
7209 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7210 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
7211 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
7213 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
7214 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7216 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
7217 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
7218 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
7219 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
7222 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
7223 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
7224 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
7225 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
7226 recent enough Clang.
7228 o Minor bugfixes (network):
7229 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
7230 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
7231 unsuitable for public communications.
7233 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7234 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
7235 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
7236 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
7237 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
7238 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
7240 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
7241 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
7242 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
7243 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
7244 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
7245 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
7246 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
7247 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
7249 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7250 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
7251 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
7253 - Set the severity correctly when testing
7254 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
7255 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
7256 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
7257 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
7259 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7260 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
7261 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
7263 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
7264 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
7265 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
7266 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
7267 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
7270 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
7271 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
7273 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
7274 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7275 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
7276 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
7277 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
7280 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
7281 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
7282 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
7283 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
7284 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
7285 Closes ticket 14922.
7288 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
7289 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
7290 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
7291 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
7292 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
7293 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
7294 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
7295 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
7296 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
7297 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
7298 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
7301 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
7302 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
7303 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
7304 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
7305 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
7307 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
7308 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
7310 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
7311 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
7312 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
7313 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
7314 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
7315 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
7316 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
7318 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
7319 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
7320 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
7321 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
7322 Resolves ticket 15515.
7325 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
7326 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
7327 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
7328 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
7329 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
7331 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
7332 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
7334 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
7335 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
7336 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
7337 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
7338 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
7339 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
7340 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
7342 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
7343 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
7344 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
7345 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
7346 Resolves ticket 15515.
7349 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
7350 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
7351 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
7352 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
7353 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
7355 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
7356 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
7358 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
7359 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
7360 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
7361 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
7362 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
7363 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
7364 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
7366 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
7367 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
7368 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
7369 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
7370 Resolves ticket 15515.
7371 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
7372 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
7373 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
7377 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
7378 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
7380 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
7381 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
7382 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
7383 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
7384 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
7385 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
7386 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
7387 bugs should be addressed.
7389 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7390 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
7391 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
7392 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7394 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
7395 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
7396 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
7398 o Major bugfixes (client):
7399 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
7400 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
7403 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7404 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
7405 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
7406 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
7407 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
7408 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7410 o Major bugfixes (portability):
7411 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
7412 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
7415 o Minor features (heartbeat):
7416 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
7417 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
7418 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
7419 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
7421 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7422 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
7423 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
7426 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
7427 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
7429 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
7430 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
7431 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
7433 o Directory authority changes:
7434 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
7435 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
7436 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
7437 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
7438 closes ticket 14487.
7440 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
7441 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
7442 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
7445 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
7446 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
7447 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
7448 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
7449 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
7450 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
7451 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
7452 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7454 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
7455 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
7456 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
7457 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
7459 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7460 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
7461 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
7462 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
7464 o Minor features (controller):
7465 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
7466 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
7467 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
7469 o Minor features (geoip):
7470 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7471 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
7474 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
7475 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
7476 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
7477 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
7478 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
7479 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7481 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7482 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
7483 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
7484 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
7486 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7487 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
7488 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
7489 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
7490 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
7491 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
7492 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
7493 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7495 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7496 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
7497 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7499 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
7500 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
7501 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
7502 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
7503 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
7507 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
7508 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
7509 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
7512 o Directory authority changes:
7513 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
7514 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
7515 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
7516 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
7517 closes ticket 14487.
7519 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
7520 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
7521 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
7522 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
7524 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
7525 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
7526 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
7527 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
7528 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
7529 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
7530 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
7531 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7533 o Minor features (geoip):
7534 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7535 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
7538 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
7539 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
7540 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
7541 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
7542 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
7544 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
7545 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
7546 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
7549 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
7550 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
7551 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
7552 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
7553 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7554 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
7555 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
7556 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7558 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
7559 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
7560 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
7563 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7564 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
7565 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
7567 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
7568 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7569 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
7570 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
7571 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
7573 o Minor features (controller):
7574 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
7575 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
7576 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
7578 o Minor features (geoip):
7579 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
7580 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
7583 o Minor features (logs):
7584 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
7587 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
7588 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
7589 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
7590 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7591 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
7592 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
7593 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
7594 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
7595 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7598 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
7600 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
7603 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7604 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
7605 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
7607 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
7608 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
7609 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
7610 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
7612 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
7613 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
7616 o Directory authority IP change:
7617 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
7618 closes ticket 14487.
7621 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
7622 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
7623 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
7627 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
7628 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
7629 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
7630 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
7631 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
7632 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
7634 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
7635 the next version will be a release candidate.
7637 o Deprecated versions:
7638 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
7639 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
7641 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
7642 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
7643 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
7644 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
7645 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
7646 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
7648 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
7649 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
7650 Implements ticket 11485.
7652 o Major features (changed defaults):
7653 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
7654 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
7655 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
7656 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
7657 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
7658 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
7660 o Major features (directory system):
7661 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
7662 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
7663 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
7664 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
7665 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
7666 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
7667 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
7668 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
7669 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
7670 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
7671 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
7672 227. Closes ticket 10395.
7674 o Major features (guards):
7675 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
7676 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
7677 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
7678 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
7679 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
7681 o Major features (performance):
7682 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
7683 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
7684 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
7685 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
7686 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
7687 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
7688 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
7689 Implements ticket 9682.
7691 o Major features (relay):
7692 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
7693 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
7694 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
7696 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
7697 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
7698 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
7699 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
7701 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
7702 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
7703 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
7704 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
7705 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
7706 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
7707 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
7709 o Minor features (build):
7710 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
7711 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
7712 Resolves ticket 13037.
7714 o Minor features (controller):
7715 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
7716 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
7718 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
7719 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
7720 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
7721 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
7722 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
7723 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
7725 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
7726 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
7727 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
7728 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
7729 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
7730 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
7731 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
7732 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
7733 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
7734 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
7736 o Minor features (geoip):
7737 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
7738 GeoLite2 Country database.
7740 o Minor features (guard nodes):
7741 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
7742 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
7743 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
7745 o Minor features (hidden service):
7746 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
7747 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
7748 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
7749 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
7750 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
7751 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
7752 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
7753 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
7755 o Minor features (interface):
7756 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
7757 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
7758 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
7760 o Minor features (logging):
7761 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
7762 Resolves ticket 6852.
7763 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
7764 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
7765 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
7767 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
7768 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
7770 o Minor features (stability):
7771 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
7772 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
7775 o Minor features (systemd):
7776 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
7777 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
7779 o Minor features (testing networks):
7780 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
7781 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
7782 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
7783 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
7784 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
7785 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
7787 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
7788 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
7789 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
7790 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
7791 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
7793 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
7794 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
7795 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
7796 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
7797 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
7799 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
7800 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
7801 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
7802 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
7803 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
7804 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
7805 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
7806 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7808 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
7809 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
7810 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
7811 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
7812 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
7813 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7814 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
7815 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
7817 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
7818 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
7819 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
7822 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
7823 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
7824 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
7825 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
7826 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
7828 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
7829 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
7830 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
7831 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
7832 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7834 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7835 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
7836 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
7837 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
7838 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
7839 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
7840 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
7841 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
7842 Addresses ticket 14188.
7843 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
7844 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
7845 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
7846 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
7847 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
7848 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
7849 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
7850 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
7851 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7853 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7854 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
7855 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
7856 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7857 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
7858 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7859 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
7860 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7862 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7863 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
7864 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
7865 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
7866 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
7867 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
7868 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
7869 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7870 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
7871 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7872 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
7873 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
7874 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7876 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
7877 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
7878 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
7879 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
7880 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
7881 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
7882 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
7883 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
7884 state, and key files.
7885 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
7886 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
7889 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7890 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
7891 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
7892 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
7893 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7894 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
7895 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
7896 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7897 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
7898 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
7899 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7901 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7902 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
7903 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7904 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
7906 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
7907 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7909 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
7910 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
7911 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
7912 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
7913 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
7914 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7916 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
7917 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
7918 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
7919 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7920 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
7921 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
7922 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7923 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
7924 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
7925 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7928 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
7929 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
7931 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
7932 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
7934 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
7935 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
7936 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
7937 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
7938 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7940 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
7941 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
7942 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
7943 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
7946 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
7947 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
7948 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
7951 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7952 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
7953 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7955 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
7956 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
7957 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
7958 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
7959 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
7960 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
7961 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
7963 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
7964 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
7967 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
7968 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
7969 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
7972 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
7973 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
7976 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7977 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
7978 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
7979 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
7980 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
7981 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
7982 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
7983 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
7984 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
7986 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
7987 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
7989 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
7993 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
7994 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
7995 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
7996 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
7997 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
7998 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
8000 o Downgraded warnings:
8001 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
8002 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
8005 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
8006 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
8007 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
8008 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
8009 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
8013 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
8014 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8015 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
8016 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
8017 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
8018 (existing behavior).
8019 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
8020 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
8021 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
8022 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
8023 Closes ticket 14107.
8024 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
8025 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8026 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
8027 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
8029 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
8030 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
8031 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8034 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
8035 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
8036 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
8037 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
8038 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
8039 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
8041 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
8042 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
8043 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
8044 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
8046 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
8047 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
8048 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
8049 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
8050 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
8051 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
8053 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
8054 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
8055 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
8056 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
8057 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
8058 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
8059 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
8062 o Major features (hidden services):
8063 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
8064 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
8065 Closes ticket 13667.
8066 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
8067 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
8068 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
8069 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
8070 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
8071 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
8072 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
8073 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
8074 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
8075 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
8076 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
8078 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
8079 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
8080 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
8081 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
8082 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
8083 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
8086 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8087 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
8088 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
8089 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
8090 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
8091 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
8093 o Directory authority changes:
8094 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
8095 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
8096 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
8098 o Major removed features:
8099 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
8100 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
8101 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
8102 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
8104 o Minor features (client):
8105 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
8106 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
8107 Resolves ticket 13315.
8109 o Minor features (controller):
8110 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
8111 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
8114 o Minor features (geoip):
8115 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
8118 o Minor features (hidden services):
8119 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
8120 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
8121 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
8122 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
8123 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
8124 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
8126 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
8127 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
8128 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
8130 o Minor features (systemd):
8131 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
8132 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
8133 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
8134 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
8136 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
8137 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
8138 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
8139 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
8140 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
8143 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
8144 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
8145 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
8146 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
8147 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
8149 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
8150 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
8151 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
8154 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
8155 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
8156 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
8157 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
8158 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
8160 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
8161 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
8162 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8165 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
8166 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
8167 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
8168 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
8170 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
8171 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
8174 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8175 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
8176 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
8177 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
8178 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
8179 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
8180 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
8181 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
8182 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8183 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
8184 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
8185 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
8186 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
8187 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
8190 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8191 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
8192 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
8193 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
8194 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
8195 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
8197 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8198 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
8199 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
8200 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
8202 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
8203 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8205 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8206 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
8207 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
8208 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
8211 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
8212 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
8213 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
8214 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
8215 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
8216 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
8218 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
8219 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
8220 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
8221 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
8222 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8223 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
8224 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
8225 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
8226 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
8227 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
8228 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
8229 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
8230 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
8231 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
8232 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
8233 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
8234 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
8235 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
8236 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
8237 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8238 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
8239 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
8240 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
8241 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
8242 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
8243 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
8244 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
8245 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8246 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
8247 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
8248 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
8249 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
8251 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
8252 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
8253 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
8254 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
8255 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8257 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8258 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
8259 with a function instead.
8260 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
8261 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
8262 Closes ticket 13172.
8263 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
8264 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
8265 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
8266 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
8267 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
8268 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
8269 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
8270 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
8271 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
8272 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
8273 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
8274 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
8278 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
8279 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
8280 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
8281 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
8282 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
8283 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
8284 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
8285 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
8286 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
8287 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
8288 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
8289 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
8292 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
8293 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
8294 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
8295 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
8296 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
8297 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
8299 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
8303 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
8304 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
8305 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
8306 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
8307 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
8308 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
8309 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
8310 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
8311 of introducing infinite download loops.
8313 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
8314 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
8315 with 0.2.5.x for now.
8317 o New compiler and system requirements:
8318 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
8319 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
8320 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
8321 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
8323 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
8324 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
8325 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
8326 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
8327 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
8328 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
8329 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
8330 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
8331 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
8333 o Removed platform support:
8334 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
8335 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
8336 Closes ticket 11446.
8338 o Major features (bridges):
8339 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
8340 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
8341 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
8344 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
8345 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
8346 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
8347 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
8350 o Major features (directory system):
8351 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
8352 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
8353 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
8354 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
8356 o Major features (sample torrc):
8357 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
8358 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
8359 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
8360 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
8361 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
8362 generally useful "sample torrc".
8364 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
8365 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
8366 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8368 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
8369 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
8370 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
8371 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
8372 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
8374 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
8375 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
8376 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
8377 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
8379 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
8380 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
8381 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
8382 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
8383 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
8384 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
8387 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
8388 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
8389 document. Implements feature 10427.
8391 o Minor features (client):
8392 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
8393 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
8394 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
8395 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
8397 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8398 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
8399 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
8400 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
8401 argument more than once.
8402 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
8403 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
8404 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
8405 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
8406 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
8407 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
8409 o Minor features (logging):
8410 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
8411 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
8412 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
8413 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
8414 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
8415 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
8416 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
8417 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
8418 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
8420 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
8421 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
8422 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
8423 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
8425 o Minor features (relay):
8426 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
8427 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
8428 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
8430 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
8431 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
8432 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
8433 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
8435 o Minor features (testing networks):
8436 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
8437 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
8438 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
8439 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
8440 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
8443 o Minor features (validation):
8444 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
8445 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
8446 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
8447 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
8448 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
8449 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
8450 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
8451 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
8453 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
8454 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
8455 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
8456 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8458 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
8459 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
8460 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
8461 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8464 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
8465 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
8467 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
8468 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
8469 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
8471 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
8472 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8473 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
8474 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
8475 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
8476 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
8477 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
8479 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8480 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
8481 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
8482 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
8483 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
8484 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8485 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
8486 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
8487 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
8489 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
8490 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
8491 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
8492 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
8493 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
8495 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
8496 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
8497 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
8499 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8500 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
8501 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
8502 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
8503 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
8505 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
8506 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
8507 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
8508 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8509 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
8510 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
8511 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8512 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
8513 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
8514 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
8515 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
8518 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8519 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
8520 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
8521 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
8522 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8524 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8525 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
8526 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8527 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
8528 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
8531 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
8532 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
8533 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8534 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
8535 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
8536 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8538 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8539 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
8540 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
8541 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8543 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
8544 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
8545 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
8546 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8548 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
8549 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
8550 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
8551 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
8554 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
8555 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
8556 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
8559 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
8560 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8561 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
8562 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
8563 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
8566 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8567 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
8568 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
8570 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
8571 Resolves ticket 12205.
8572 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
8573 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
8574 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
8575 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
8577 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
8578 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
8579 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
8581 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
8582 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
8584 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
8585 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
8586 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
8587 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
8588 or_options_t structure.
8591 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
8592 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
8593 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
8594 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
8598 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
8599 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
8600 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
8601 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
8602 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
8603 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
8604 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
8605 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
8606 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
8608 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
8609 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
8611 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
8612 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
8613 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
8614 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
8615 anymore, and ignore it.
8618 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
8619 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
8620 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
8621 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
8622 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
8623 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
8624 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
8625 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
8626 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
8627 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
8628 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
8629 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
8631 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
8632 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
8633 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
8635 o Distribution (systemd):
8636 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
8637 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
8638 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
8639 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
8640 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
8642 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
8643 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
8645 o Removed features (directory authorities):
8646 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
8647 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
8648 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
8649 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
8650 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
8651 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
8652 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
8653 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
8654 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
8656 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
8657 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
8658 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
8659 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
8662 o Testing (test-network.sh):
8663 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
8664 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
8666 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
8668 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
8669 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
8670 Partially implements ticket 13161.
8673 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
8674 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
8676 It adds several new security features, including improved
8677 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
8678 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
8679 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
8680 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
8681 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
8682 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
8683 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
8684 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
8685 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
8686 and features mentioned below.
8688 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
8689 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
8691 o Deprecated versions:
8692 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
8693 attention for some while.
8696 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
8697 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
8698 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
8699 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
8700 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
8701 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
8703 o Major security fixes:
8704 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
8705 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
8706 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
8708 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
8709 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
8710 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
8711 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
8714 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
8715 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
8716 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
8717 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8719 o Compilation fixes:
8720 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
8721 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
8722 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
8724 o Downgraded warnings:
8725 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
8726 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
8729 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
8730 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
8731 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
8732 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
8733 (which does affect Tor).
8735 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
8736 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
8737 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
8738 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
8740 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
8741 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
8742 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
8743 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
8746 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
8747 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
8748 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
8749 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
8750 the directory authorities.
8753 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
8754 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
8755 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
8756 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
8757 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
8758 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
8759 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
8760 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
8761 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
8762 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
8763 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
8764 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8766 o Directory authority changes:
8767 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8770 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
8771 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
8772 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
8773 the directory authorities.
8776 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
8777 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
8778 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
8779 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
8780 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
8781 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
8782 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
8783 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
8784 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
8785 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
8786 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
8787 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8789 o Directory authority changes:
8790 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8792 o Minor features (geoip):
8793 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
8797 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
8798 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
8799 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
8800 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
8801 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
8803 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
8804 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
8805 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
8806 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
8807 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
8808 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
8809 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8810 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
8811 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
8812 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
8813 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
8814 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
8815 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
8816 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8817 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
8818 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
8820 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8821 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
8822 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8823 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
8824 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
8825 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
8826 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
8827 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8829 o Minor features (bridge):
8830 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
8831 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
8833 o Minor features (geoip):
8834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
8837 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8838 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
8839 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
8840 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
8841 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
8842 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
8843 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8844 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
8845 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
8846 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
8847 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
8848 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
8849 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
8850 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
8851 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
8853 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
8854 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
8855 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8856 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
8857 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
8859 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8860 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
8861 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8862 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
8863 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
8866 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8867 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
8868 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8869 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
8870 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
8871 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
8872 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
8873 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8874 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
8875 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
8876 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
8879 o Distribution (systemd):
8880 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
8881 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
8882 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
8883 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
8884 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
8885 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
8886 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
8887 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
8888 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
8892 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
8893 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
8895 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
8899 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
8900 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
8901 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
8902 us closer to a release candidate.
8904 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
8905 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
8906 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
8907 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
8908 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
8910 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
8911 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
8912 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
8913 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
8914 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
8915 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
8916 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
8917 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
8918 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
8922 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
8923 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
8924 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
8925 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
8926 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
8927 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
8928 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
8932 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
8933 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
8934 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
8935 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
8936 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
8937 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
8938 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
8939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
8941 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
8943 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
8944 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
8945 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
8946 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
8947 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
8948 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
8949 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
8950 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
8951 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
8952 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8955 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
8956 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
8957 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
8958 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
8960 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
8961 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
8962 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
8965 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
8966 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
8967 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
8968 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
8971 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
8972 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
8973 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
8974 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
8975 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
8976 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
8977 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
8978 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
8979 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
8980 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
8983 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
8984 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
8985 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
8986 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
8987 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
8988 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
8989 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
8990 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
8994 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
8995 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
8996 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
8997 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
8998 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
8999 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
9000 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
9001 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
9002 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9003 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
9004 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
9005 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
9006 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
9009 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
9013 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
9014 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
9015 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
9016 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
9017 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
9018 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
9021 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
9022 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
9023 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
9024 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
9025 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
9026 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
9027 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
9028 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
9029 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
9030 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
9031 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
9032 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
9033 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9035 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
9036 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
9037 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
9038 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
9041 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
9042 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
9043 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
9045 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
9046 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
9047 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
9048 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
9049 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
9050 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
9051 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
9052 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
9053 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
9054 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
9055 router's identity is not forgeable.
9057 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9058 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
9059 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
9060 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
9061 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9062 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
9063 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
9064 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
9065 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
9066 bugfix on every version of Tor.
9068 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
9069 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
9070 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
9071 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
9074 o Minor features (diagnostic):
9075 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
9076 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
9077 help diagnose bug 7164.
9078 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
9079 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
9080 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
9081 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
9082 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
9084 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
9085 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
9086 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
9087 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
9088 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
9089 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
9090 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
9092 o Minor features (security, memory management):
9093 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
9094 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
9095 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
9096 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
9097 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
9098 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
9100 o Minor features (security):
9101 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
9102 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
9103 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
9104 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
9106 o Minor features (build):
9107 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
9108 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
9109 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
9111 o Minor features (other):
9112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
9115 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
9116 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
9117 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
9118 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
9119 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9121 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9122 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
9123 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
9124 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
9125 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
9126 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
9127 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
9128 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
9129 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9130 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
9131 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
9132 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
9134 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9135 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
9136 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
9137 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
9138 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
9139 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
9140 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
9141 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
9142 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
9143 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
9144 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9145 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
9146 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
9147 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
9148 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
9149 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
9150 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
9151 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
9154 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
9155 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
9156 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
9157 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
9158 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
9159 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
9160 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
9162 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
9163 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
9164 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9165 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
9166 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9167 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
9168 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9169 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
9170 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
9172 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
9173 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
9175 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
9176 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
9178 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
9179 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
9180 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9181 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
9182 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
9183 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9184 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
9185 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
9186 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
9188 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
9189 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
9190 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
9191 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
9192 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
9193 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9194 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
9195 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
9196 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9197 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
9198 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
9199 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9200 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
9201 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
9202 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
9203 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
9204 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
9205 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9207 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9208 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
9209 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
9210 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
9211 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
9212 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9213 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
9214 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
9215 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
9218 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9219 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
9220 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
9221 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
9222 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9224 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9225 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
9226 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
9227 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
9229 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
9230 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
9231 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
9232 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9233 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
9234 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
9235 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
9236 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
9238 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
9239 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
9240 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
9241 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
9244 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
9245 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
9246 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
9247 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
9248 versions. Found by "skruffy".
9249 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
9250 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
9251 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
9254 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
9255 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
9256 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
9257 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
9260 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
9261 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
9262 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
9263 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
9265 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
9266 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
9267 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
9269 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
9270 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
9271 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9273 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9274 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
9275 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9276 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
9277 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
9281 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
9282 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
9283 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
9284 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
9287 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
9288 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
9289 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
9290 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
9292 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
9293 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
9295 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
9296 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
9297 caches don't get confused.
9300 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
9301 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
9302 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
9303 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
9304 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
9307 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
9308 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
9309 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
9310 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
9311 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
9312 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
9316 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
9317 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
9318 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
9319 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
9320 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
9321 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
9322 of RAM, and several others.
9324 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9325 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
9326 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
9327 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
9328 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
9330 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
9331 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
9332 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
9333 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
9336 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9337 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
9338 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
9339 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
9340 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
9341 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
9342 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9343 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
9344 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
9345 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
9346 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
9347 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
9348 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
9349 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
9350 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
9351 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
9352 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
9353 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
9354 Resolves ticket 11438.
9356 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
9357 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
9358 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
9359 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
9360 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
9361 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9363 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9364 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
9365 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9367 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9368 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
9369 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9371 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9372 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
9373 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
9374 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9376 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9377 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
9378 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
9380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9381 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
9382 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9385 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
9386 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
9387 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
9388 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
9391 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9392 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
9393 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
9394 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
9396 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9397 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
9398 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
9399 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
9401 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
9402 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
9403 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
9407 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
9408 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
9409 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
9410 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
9411 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
9412 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
9413 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
9414 the Linux sandbox code.
9416 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
9417 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
9418 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
9420 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
9421 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
9423 o Major features (security):
9424 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
9425 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
9426 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
9427 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
9428 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
9429 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
9430 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
9431 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
9433 o Major features (relay performance):
9434 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
9435 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
9436 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
9437 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
9438 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
9439 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
9440 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
9441 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
9442 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
9443 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
9445 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
9446 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
9447 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
9448 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
9449 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
9450 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
9451 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
9453 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
9454 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
9456 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
9457 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
9458 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
9459 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
9460 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
9461 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
9462 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9463 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
9464 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
9465 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
9466 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
9467 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
9468 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
9469 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
9470 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
9471 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
9472 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
9473 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
9474 Resolves ticket 11438.
9476 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
9477 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
9478 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
9479 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9481 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
9482 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
9483 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
9484 10267; patch from "yurivict".
9485 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
9486 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
9487 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
9488 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
9489 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
9490 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
9492 o Minor features (security):
9493 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
9494 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
9495 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
9496 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
9499 o Minor features (log verbosity):
9500 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
9501 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
9502 Resolves ticket 5286.
9503 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
9504 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
9505 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
9506 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
9507 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
9508 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
9509 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
9510 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
9511 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
9513 o Minor features (relay):
9514 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
9515 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
9516 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
9518 o Minor features (controller):
9519 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
9520 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
9522 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
9523 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
9524 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
9526 o Minor features (bridge client):
9527 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
9528 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
9529 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
9531 o Minor features (diagnostic):
9532 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
9533 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
9534 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
9535 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
9536 still referenced by a live node_t object.
9538 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
9539 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
9540 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
9541 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
9543 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
9544 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
9545 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
9546 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
9549 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
9550 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
9551 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9553 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
9554 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
9555 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
9556 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9557 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
9558 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
9559 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9561 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
9562 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
9563 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
9564 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9565 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
9566 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
9567 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9568 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
9569 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
9570 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
9571 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9572 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
9573 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
9576 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
9577 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
9578 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
9579 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
9580 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
9582 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
9583 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
9584 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
9587 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9588 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
9589 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9591 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
9592 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
9593 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9595 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
9596 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
9597 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
9598 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
9600 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
9601 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
9602 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9603 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
9604 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
9606 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
9607 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
9608 early. Fixes bug 10081.
9610 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
9611 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
9612 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
9613 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
9614 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9615 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
9616 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
9617 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
9619 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
9620 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
9621 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
9622 should never have affected anyone in practice.
9624 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9625 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
9626 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9628 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
9629 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
9630 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
9631 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
9632 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
9633 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
9634 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
9635 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
9636 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
9637 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
9638 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
9639 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
9640 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
9641 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
9643 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
9644 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
9645 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
9646 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
9647 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
9648 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
9649 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
9650 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
9654 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
9655 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
9656 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
9657 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9658 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
9659 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9660 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
9661 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
9663 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
9665 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9666 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
9667 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
9668 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
9669 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
9672 o Deprecated versions:
9673 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
9674 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
9675 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
9676 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
9679 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
9680 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
9681 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
9682 Patch from Dana Koch.
9685 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
9686 Resolves ticket 11070.
9689 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
9690 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
9691 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
9692 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
9693 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
9696 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
9697 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
9699 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
9700 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
9701 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
9702 streams attached to each circuit.
9704 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
9705 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
9706 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
9707 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
9708 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
9709 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
9710 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
9711 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
9712 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
9713 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
9714 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
9715 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
9716 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
9718 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
9719 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
9720 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
9722 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
9723 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
9724 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
9725 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
9726 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
9727 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
9728 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
9729 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
9730 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
9732 o Minor features (other):
9733 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
9734 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
9735 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
9736 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
9737 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
9738 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
9739 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
9740 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
9741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
9744 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
9745 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
9746 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
9747 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
9748 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
9749 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
9750 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
9751 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
9753 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9754 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
9755 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
9756 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
9757 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9758 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
9759 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
9760 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
9762 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
9763 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
9764 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
9765 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
9766 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
9767 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9768 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
9769 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
9770 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9771 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
9772 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
9773 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9775 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
9776 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
9777 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
9778 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
9779 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
9780 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
9781 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
9782 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
9783 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9784 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
9785 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
9786 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
9787 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
9788 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
9790 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
9791 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
9793 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
9794 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
9795 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
9796 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
9797 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
9798 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
9799 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9800 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
9801 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
9802 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
9803 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
9804 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9805 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
9806 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9809 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
9810 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
9811 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
9814 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
9815 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
9816 the rest of bug 10841.
9819 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
9820 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
9821 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
9822 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
9823 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
9824 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
9825 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
9826 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
9827 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
9828 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
9829 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
9830 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9831 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
9832 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
9833 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9835 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9836 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
9837 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
9839 o Test infrastructure:
9840 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
9841 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
9842 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
9843 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9846 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
9847 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
9848 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
9849 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
9851 o Major features (client security):
9852 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
9853 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
9854 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
9855 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
9856 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
9857 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
9860 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
9861 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
9862 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
9863 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9865 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9866 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
9867 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
9868 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
9869 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
9872 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
9873 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
9875 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
9876 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
9877 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
9878 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
9879 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
9880 GeoLite2 Country database.
9883 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
9884 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
9885 bugfix on every released Tor.
9886 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
9887 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
9888 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
9889 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9890 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
9891 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
9892 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
9893 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
9894 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
9895 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9896 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
9897 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
9898 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9899 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
9900 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9902 o Documentation fixes:
9903 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
9904 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
9907 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
9908 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
9909 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
9910 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
9911 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
9912 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
9913 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
9914 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
9916 o Major features (client security):
9917 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
9918 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
9919 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
9920 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
9921 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
9922 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
9923 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
9924 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
9925 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
9926 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
9927 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
9928 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
9930 o Major features (bridges):
9931 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
9932 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
9933 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
9934 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
9935 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
9936 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
9937 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
9938 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
9941 o Major features (other):
9942 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
9943 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
9944 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
9945 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
9946 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
9947 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
9948 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
9949 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
9950 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
9951 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
9952 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
9953 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
9956 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
9957 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
9958 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9959 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
9960 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
9961 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
9962 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9964 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
9965 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
9966 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
9967 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
9968 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
9969 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
9970 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
9971 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
9972 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
9974 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
9975 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9976 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
9977 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
9978 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
9979 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
9981 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
9982 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
9983 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
9984 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
9985 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
9986 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
9989 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
9990 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
9991 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
9992 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
9993 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
9994 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
9995 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
9997 o Minor features (security):
9998 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
9999 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
10000 Florent Daignière.
10002 o Minor features (config options and command line):
10003 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
10004 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
10005 Implements ticket 10060.
10006 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
10007 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
10008 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
10010 o Minor features (controller):
10011 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
10012 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
10013 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
10014 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
10015 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
10018 o Minor features (build):
10019 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
10020 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
10021 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
10022 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
10023 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
10024 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
10025 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
10027 o Minor features (testing):
10028 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
10029 the unit test scripts.
10030 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
10031 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
10032 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
10033 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
10035 o Minor features (log messages):
10036 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
10037 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
10038 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
10039 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
10040 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
10041 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
10042 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
10043 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
10044 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
10045 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10047 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
10048 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
10049 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
10050 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
10051 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
10052 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
10053 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
10054 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
10055 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
10056 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10058 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
10059 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
10060 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
10061 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
10064 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10065 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
10066 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
10067 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
10068 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10070 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
10071 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
10072 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
10073 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
10074 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
10075 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
10076 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
10078 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
10079 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
10080 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
10081 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
10082 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
10083 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
10084 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10085 Reported by "mr-4".
10086 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
10087 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
10088 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
10089 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
10092 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
10093 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
10094 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
10095 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
10096 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
10097 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
10098 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
10099 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
10100 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
10101 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10103 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10104 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
10105 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
10106 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
10107 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
10108 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
10109 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
10110 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
10111 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
10112 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
10114 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
10115 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
10116 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
10117 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
10120 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10121 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
10122 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
10123 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
10124 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
10125 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
10127 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
10128 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10130 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10131 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
10132 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
10133 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10135 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
10136 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
10137 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
10138 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10139 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
10140 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
10141 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
10142 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
10143 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
10144 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
10145 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
10146 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
10147 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
10148 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
10150 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
10151 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
10152 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10153 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
10154 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
10155 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
10157 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
10158 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
10159 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10160 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
10161 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
10162 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
10163 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
10164 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
10165 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
10166 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10167 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
10168 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10170 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
10171 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
10172 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
10173 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
10174 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
10175 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10176 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
10177 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
10178 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
10179 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
10180 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
10181 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
10182 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
10183 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
10184 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
10185 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
10188 o Removed code and features:
10189 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
10190 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
10191 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
10192 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
10193 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
10194 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
10196 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
10197 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
10198 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
10199 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
10200 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
10201 part of a fix for bug 10841.
10203 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10204 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
10205 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
10206 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
10207 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
10208 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
10209 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
10210 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
10211 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
10212 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
10213 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
10216 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
10217 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
10218 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
10219 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
10220 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
10222 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
10223 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
10224 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
10225 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
10226 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
10227 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
10228 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
10231 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
10232 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
10233 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
10236 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
10237 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
10238 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
10239 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
10240 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
10241 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
10242 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
10244 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
10245 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
10248 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
10249 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
10250 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
10251 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
10252 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
10253 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
10254 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
10255 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
10257 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
10258 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10259 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
10260 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
10261 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
10262 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
10265 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
10266 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10267 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
10268 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
10269 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
10272 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
10273 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
10274 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
10275 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
10276 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
10277 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
10278 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
10279 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
10281 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
10282 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
10283 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
10284 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
10285 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
10286 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
10287 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
10288 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
10289 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
10290 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
10291 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
10292 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
10293 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
10294 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
10295 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
10296 security, and privacy fixes.
10299 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
10300 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
10301 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
10302 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
10305 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
10306 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
10307 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
10308 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
10309 them to solve bug 6033.)
10312 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
10313 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
10314 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
10315 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
10316 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
10317 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10318 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
10319 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
10321 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
10322 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
10323 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
10324 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10326 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
10327 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
10328 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10329 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
10330 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
10331 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
10332 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
10333 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
10334 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
10335 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10336 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
10337 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10339 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
10340 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
10341 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
10342 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
10343 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
10344 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10345 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
10346 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
10347 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
10348 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
10349 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
10350 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
10351 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
10352 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
10353 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
10354 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
10357 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
10358 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
10359 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
10360 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
10361 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
10362 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
10363 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
10364 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
10365 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
10366 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
10367 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
10368 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
10369 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
10370 Implements part of proposal 222.
10372 o Minor features (other):
10373 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
10374 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
10375 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
10376 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
10377 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
10378 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
10379 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
10380 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
10381 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10383 o Documentation fixes:
10384 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
10385 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
10386 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
10387 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
10388 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
10389 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
10392 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
10393 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
10394 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
10395 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
10396 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
10397 release of the new branch.
10399 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
10400 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
10401 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
10403 o Major features (security):
10404 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
10405 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
10406 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
10407 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
10408 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
10409 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
10410 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
10411 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
10412 Google Summer of Code.
10413 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
10414 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
10415 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
10416 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
10417 them to solve bug 6033.)
10419 o Major features (other):
10420 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
10421 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
10422 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
10423 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
10424 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
10426 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
10427 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
10428 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
10429 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
10430 Implements ticket 8530.
10431 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
10432 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
10435 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
10436 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
10437 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
10438 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
10439 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
10440 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10441 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
10442 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
10443 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10444 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
10445 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
10446 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
10447 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10450 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
10451 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
10452 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
10453 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
10454 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
10455 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
10456 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
10457 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
10458 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
10459 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
10463 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
10464 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
10465 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
10466 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
10467 invoking the other functions it calls.
10468 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
10469 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
10470 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
10471 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
10473 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
10474 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
10475 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
10476 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
10477 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
10478 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
10479 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
10480 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
10481 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
10482 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
10483 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
10484 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
10485 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
10486 Implements part of proposal 222.
10488 o Minor features (config options):
10489 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
10490 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
10491 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
10492 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
10493 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
10494 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
10495 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
10496 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
10497 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
10498 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
10499 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
10500 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
10501 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
10502 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
10503 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
10504 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
10505 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
10508 o Minor features (build):
10509 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
10510 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
10511 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
10512 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
10513 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
10516 o Minor features (other):
10517 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
10518 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
10519 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
10520 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
10521 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
10522 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
10523 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
10524 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
10525 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
10526 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
10527 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
10528 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
10529 Closes ticket 8109.
10530 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10533 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
10534 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
10535 bugfix on every released Tor.
10536 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
10537 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
10538 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
10539 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
10540 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
10541 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
10543 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
10544 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
10545 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
10546 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10547 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
10548 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
10549 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
10550 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
10552 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
10553 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
10554 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
10555 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
10556 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
10558 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
10559 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10561 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
10562 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
10563 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
10565 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
10566 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
10567 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
10568 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
10569 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10571 o Minor code improvements:
10572 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
10573 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
10575 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
10576 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
10577 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
10578 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
10579 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
10581 o Removed features:
10582 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
10583 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
10584 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
10585 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
10587 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10588 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
10589 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
10590 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
10591 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
10592 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
10593 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
10594 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
10595 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
10596 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
10597 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
10598 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
10599 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
10600 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
10601 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
10602 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
10605 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
10606 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
10607 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
10608 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
10609 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
10610 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
10611 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
10614 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
10615 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
10616 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
10617 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
10618 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
10619 Implements ticket 9574.
10622 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
10623 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
10624 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
10625 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
10626 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
10627 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
10628 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
10629 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
10630 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10631 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
10632 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
10633 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
10637 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
10638 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
10639 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
10640 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
10642 o Minor fixes (config options):
10643 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
10644 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
10645 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
10646 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
10647 message is logged at notice, not at info.
10648 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
10649 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
10650 or we just won't work.)
10653 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
10654 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
10655 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
10656 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10659 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
10660 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
10661 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
10664 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
10665 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
10666 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10667 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
10668 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10669 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
10670 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
10672 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
10673 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10674 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
10675 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
10678 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
10679 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
10680 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10681 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
10682 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
10683 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
10684 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
10685 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
10686 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
10687 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
10688 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10689 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
10690 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
10693 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10696 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
10697 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
10698 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
10699 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
10702 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
10703 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
10704 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10707 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
10708 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
10709 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
10712 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
10713 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
10714 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10717 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
10718 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
10719 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
10720 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
10721 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
10722 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
10724 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
10725 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
10726 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
10727 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
10728 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
10729 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
10731 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
10732 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
10733 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10736 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
10737 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
10738 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
10739 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
10740 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
10742 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
10743 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
10744 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
10745 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
10746 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
10747 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
10748 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
10750 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
10751 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
10752 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
10754 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
10755 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
10759 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
10760 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
10761 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
10763 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
10764 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
10765 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
10766 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
10767 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
10768 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
10770 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
10771 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
10772 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
10773 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
10774 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
10775 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
10776 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
10779 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
10780 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
10781 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
10782 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
10783 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
10784 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
10785 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10786 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
10787 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10788 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
10789 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
10790 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10791 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
10792 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
10794 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
10795 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
10796 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
10797 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
10800 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
10801 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
10802 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
10803 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
10804 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
10805 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
10807 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
10808 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
10812 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
10813 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
10814 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
10815 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
10816 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
10817 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
10818 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10820 o Removed documentation:
10821 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
10822 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
10824 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10825 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
10826 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
10827 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
10830 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
10831 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
10832 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
10833 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
10834 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
10835 variety of other issues.
10838 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
10839 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
10840 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
10841 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
10842 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
10843 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10844 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
10845 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
10847 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
10848 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
10849 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
10851 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
10852 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
10853 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
10854 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10855 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
10856 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
10857 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10859 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
10860 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
10861 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
10862 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
10863 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
10864 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
10865 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
10866 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10867 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
10868 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
10869 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
10870 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
10871 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10872 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
10873 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
10874 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
10875 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
10876 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
10877 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
10878 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
10879 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10881 o Major bugfixes (other):
10882 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
10883 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
10884 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
10885 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10888 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
10889 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
10890 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
10891 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
10893 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
10894 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
10896 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10898 o Minor features (build):
10899 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
10900 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
10902 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
10903 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
10905 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
10906 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
10907 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
10910 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10911 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
10912 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10913 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10914 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
10915 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
10916 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
10917 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
10918 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
10919 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10920 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
10921 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
10922 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
10923 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
10926 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
10927 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
10928 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
10929 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
10930 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
10931 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
10932 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
10933 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
10934 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
10935 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
10936 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
10937 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
10938 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
10939 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10940 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10942 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10943 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
10944 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10945 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
10946 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
10947 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
10948 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
10949 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10950 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
10951 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
10952 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
10953 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
10954 Should help resolve bug 8235.
10955 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
10956 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
10957 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
10958 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10960 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
10961 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
10962 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
10963 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
10964 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
10965 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
10966 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
10967 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
10970 o Minor bugfixes (config):
10971 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
10972 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
10974 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
10975 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
10976 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
10977 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
10978 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
10979 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
10980 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10981 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
10982 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
10983 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10984 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
10985 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
10986 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10987 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
10988 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
10991 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
10992 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
10993 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
10994 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
10995 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
10996 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
10997 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
10998 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
11000 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
11001 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
11002 or at least make it more diagnosable.
11003 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
11004 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
11005 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
11006 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11008 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
11009 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
11010 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
11011 the relaxed timeout log message.
11012 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
11013 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
11014 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
11016 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
11017 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
11018 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11019 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
11020 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11021 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
11022 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
11025 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
11026 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
11027 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
11028 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
11029 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11030 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
11031 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11032 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
11033 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
11034 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
11035 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
11036 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
11037 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11038 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
11039 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
11040 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
11041 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11043 o Documentation fixes:
11044 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
11045 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
11046 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
11047 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
11048 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
11049 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
11050 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
11051 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
11054 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
11055 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
11059 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
11060 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
11061 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
11062 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
11064 o Major features (directory authorities):
11065 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
11066 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
11067 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
11068 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
11069 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
11070 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
11071 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
11072 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
11073 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
11074 Implements ticket 8151.
11076 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
11077 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
11078 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
11079 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
11080 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
11082 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11083 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
11084 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
11085 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
11086 whether authentication information is present, causing all
11087 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
11088 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
11090 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
11091 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
11092 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
11093 bugs 1913 and 1992.
11094 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
11095 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
11096 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
11097 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
11098 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
11099 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
11100 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
11101 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
11102 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
11103 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
11104 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
11105 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
11106 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
11107 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
11108 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
11109 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
11110 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
11111 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
11114 o Minor features (portability):
11115 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
11116 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11117 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
11118 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
11119 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
11120 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
11121 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
11122 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11124 o Minor features (other):
11125 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
11126 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
11127 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
11128 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
11129 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
11130 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
11131 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
11132 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
11134 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11136 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
11137 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
11138 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
11139 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
11140 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
11141 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
11142 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
11143 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
11144 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
11145 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
11147 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
11148 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
11149 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
11150 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11152 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
11153 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
11154 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
11155 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
11156 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
11157 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
11158 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
11160 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
11161 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
11162 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
11163 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
11164 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
11166 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
11167 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
11168 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
11169 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
11171 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
11172 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
11173 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
11176 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
11177 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
11178 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11179 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
11181 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
11182 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
11183 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
11184 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11186 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
11187 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
11188 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
11189 this is CID 718634.
11190 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
11191 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
11192 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
11193 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
11195 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
11196 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
11197 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11198 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
11199 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
11200 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
11201 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11203 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11204 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
11208 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
11209 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
11210 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
11211 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
11212 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
11215 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11216 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
11217 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
11218 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
11220 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
11221 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
11222 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
11226 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
11227 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
11228 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
11229 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
11230 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
11231 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
11232 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
11233 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
11234 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
11235 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
11236 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
11237 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
11238 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
11241 o Major features (relay):
11242 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
11243 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
11244 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
11245 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
11246 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
11247 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
11248 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
11250 o Major features (portability):
11251 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
11252 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
11253 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
11254 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
11255 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11258 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
11259 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
11260 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
11261 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
11262 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
11263 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
11265 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
11266 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
11267 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
11268 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
11269 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
11270 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
11271 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
11272 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
11274 o Minor features (path selection):
11275 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
11276 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
11277 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
11278 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
11279 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
11280 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
11281 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
11282 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
11283 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
11284 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
11285 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
11286 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
11287 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
11288 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
11289 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
11290 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
11291 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
11292 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
11293 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
11295 o Minor features (log messages):
11296 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
11297 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
11298 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
11299 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
11302 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
11303 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
11304 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11305 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
11306 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
11307 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
11308 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
11309 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
11310 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
11311 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11312 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
11313 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11315 o Build improvements:
11316 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
11317 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
11318 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
11319 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
11320 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
11321 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
11322 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
11323 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
11324 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
11325 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
11326 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
11327 than to perform erroneously.
11329 o Removed features:
11330 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
11331 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
11332 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
11334 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
11335 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
11336 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
11339 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11340 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
11342 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
11343 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
11347 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
11348 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
11349 work more robustly.
11352 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
11353 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
11354 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
11358 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
11359 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
11360 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
11361 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
11364 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
11365 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
11366 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
11367 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
11368 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
11369 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
11370 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
11371 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
11372 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
11373 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
11374 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
11375 closes ticket 7199.
11377 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
11378 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
11379 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
11380 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
11381 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
11382 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
11383 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
11384 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
11385 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
11386 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
11387 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
11389 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
11390 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
11391 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
11393 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
11394 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
11395 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
11397 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
11399 o Major features (better link encryption):
11400 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
11401 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
11402 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
11403 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
11404 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
11405 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
11408 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
11409 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
11410 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
11411 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
11412 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
11413 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
11414 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
11416 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
11417 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
11418 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
11419 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
11421 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
11424 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
11425 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
11426 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11429 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
11430 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
11431 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
11432 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
11433 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
11434 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
11435 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
11436 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
11437 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11439 o Minor features (testing):
11440 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
11441 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
11442 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
11444 o Minor features (path bias detection):
11445 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
11446 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
11447 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
11448 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
11449 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
11450 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
11451 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
11452 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
11453 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
11454 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
11455 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
11456 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
11457 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
11458 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
11459 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
11460 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
11461 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
11462 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
11463 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
11464 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
11465 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
11466 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
11467 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
11468 detection capability loss.
11470 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
11471 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
11472 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
11473 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
11474 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11475 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
11476 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
11477 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
11480 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11481 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
11482 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
11483 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
11484 and the different handshakes it supports.
11485 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
11486 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
11487 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
11488 any encoding is overkill.
11491 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
11492 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
11493 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
11494 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
11495 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
11496 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
11497 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
11498 and fixes a variety of other issues.
11500 o Major features (client resilience):
11501 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
11502 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
11503 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
11504 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
11505 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
11506 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
11507 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
11508 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
11509 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
11510 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
11511 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
11512 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
11513 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
11514 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
11515 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
11517 o Major features (IPv6):
11518 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
11519 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
11520 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
11521 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
11522 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
11523 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
11524 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
11525 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
11527 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
11528 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
11530 o Major features (geoip database):
11531 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
11532 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
11533 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
11534 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
11535 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
11536 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
11537 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
11538 Country database, as modified above.
11540 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
11541 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
11542 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
11543 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
11544 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
11545 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
11546 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
11547 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
11548 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
11549 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
11550 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
11551 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
11552 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
11553 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
11554 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
11555 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
11556 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
11559 o Major bugfixes (other):
11560 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
11561 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
11562 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
11563 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
11564 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
11565 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
11566 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
11567 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
11569 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
11570 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11573 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
11574 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
11575 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
11576 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
11577 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
11578 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
11579 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
11580 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
11582 o Minor features (IPv6):
11583 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
11584 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
11585 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
11586 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
11587 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
11588 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
11589 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
11590 connect to the wrong addresses.
11591 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
11592 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
11593 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
11594 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
11598 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
11599 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
11600 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
11601 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11602 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
11603 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
11604 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
11606 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
11607 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
11608 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
11611 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
11612 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
11614 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11615 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
11616 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
11617 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
11618 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
11621 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
11622 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
11623 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
11624 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
11625 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
11626 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
11627 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
11628 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
11630 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
11631 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
11632 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
11633 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
11634 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
11635 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
11636 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
11637 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
11638 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
11639 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
11640 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
11643 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
11644 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
11645 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
11646 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
11647 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
11648 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
11649 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
11650 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
11651 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
11652 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
11655 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
11656 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
11660 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
11661 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
11662 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
11663 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
11666 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
11667 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
11669 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
11670 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
11671 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
11672 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
11673 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
11674 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
11675 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
11676 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
11677 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
11678 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
11681 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
11683 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
11684 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
11685 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
11686 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
11687 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
11690 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
11691 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
11692 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11693 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
11694 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
11696 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
11697 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
11698 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
11699 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
11700 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
11701 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
11702 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
11704 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
11705 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11706 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
11707 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
11708 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
11709 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11710 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
11711 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11713 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11714 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
11715 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
11716 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
11717 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
11718 present the same extensions.)
11721 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
11722 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
11723 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
11724 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
11725 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
11727 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
11728 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
11729 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
11730 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
11732 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
11733 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
11734 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
11735 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11737 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
11738 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
11739 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
11740 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
11741 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
11742 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
11743 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
11744 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
11745 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11747 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
11748 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
11749 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
11750 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
11751 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11754 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
11755 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
11756 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
11758 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11759 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
11761 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
11762 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
11766 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
11767 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
11768 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
11769 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
11772 o Major bugfixes (security):
11773 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
11774 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
11775 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
11777 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
11778 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
11779 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
11780 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11783 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
11784 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
11785 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
11786 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
11787 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
11788 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
11789 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
11790 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11793 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
11794 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
11795 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
11796 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11799 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
11800 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
11801 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
11802 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
11803 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
11804 scheduling algorithms.
11806 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
11807 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
11808 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
11810 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
11811 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
11812 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
11813 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
11814 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
11815 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
11816 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
11817 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
11818 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
11819 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
11820 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
11822 o Internal abstraction features:
11823 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
11824 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
11825 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
11826 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
11827 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
11828 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
11829 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
11830 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
11831 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
11832 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
11833 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
11834 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
11835 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
11836 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
11837 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
11838 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
11839 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
11841 o Required libraries:
11842 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
11843 strongly recommended.
11846 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
11847 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
11848 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
11849 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
11850 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
11851 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
11852 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
11853 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
11854 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
11856 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
11857 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
11858 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
11859 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
11860 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
11861 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
11862 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
11863 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11864 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
11865 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
11866 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
11867 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
11868 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
11869 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
11870 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11873 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
11874 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
11875 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
11876 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
11877 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
11878 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
11879 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
11880 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
11881 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
11882 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
11883 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
11884 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
11885 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
11886 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
11887 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
11888 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
11889 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
11890 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
11891 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
11893 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
11894 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
11895 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
11896 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
11897 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
11898 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
11899 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
11902 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
11903 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
11904 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
11905 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
11907 o New directory authorities:
11908 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
11909 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
11911 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
11912 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
11913 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
11914 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
11915 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
11916 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
11917 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
11918 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
11919 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
11920 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
11921 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
11924 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
11925 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
11926 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
11928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
11929 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
11930 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
11931 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11932 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
11933 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
11934 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
11935 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
11936 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
11938 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
11939 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
11940 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
11941 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
11942 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
11943 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
11944 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
11945 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
11946 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
11947 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
11948 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
11949 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
11950 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
11951 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
11952 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
11953 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
11954 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
11955 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
11957 o Documentation fixes:
11958 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
11961 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
11962 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
11963 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
11964 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
11967 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
11968 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
11969 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11972 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
11973 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
11974 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
11975 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
11976 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
11977 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
11978 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
11979 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
11981 o Security features:
11982 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
11983 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
11984 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
11985 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
11986 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
11987 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
11988 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
11989 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
11990 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
11994 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
11995 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
11996 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
11999 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
12000 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
12001 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12002 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
12003 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12004 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
12005 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
12006 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
12007 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
12008 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
12009 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12010 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
12011 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
12012 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
12014 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
12015 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12016 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
12017 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
12018 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12020 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
12021 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
12022 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
12023 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12024 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
12025 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
12026 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12027 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
12028 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
12029 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
12030 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
12031 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
12032 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
12033 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12034 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
12035 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
12036 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
12037 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
12038 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
12039 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
12041 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12042 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
12043 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
12044 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
12045 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
12046 testable, and a little less fragile too.
12047 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
12048 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12050 o Documentation fixes:
12051 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
12052 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
12056 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
12057 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
12061 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
12062 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
12063 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12066 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
12067 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
12071 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
12072 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
12076 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
12077 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
12078 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12079 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
12080 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
12081 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
12082 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
12086 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
12087 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
12088 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
12089 log messages less noisy.
12092 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
12093 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
12097 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
12098 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
12099 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
12100 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
12101 last time we raised it).
12104 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
12105 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
12107 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
12108 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
12109 part of ticket 6736.
12110 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
12111 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
12112 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
12116 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
12117 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
12118 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
12119 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
12120 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
12122 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
12123 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12124 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
12125 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
12126 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12127 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
12128 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
12129 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12130 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
12131 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12132 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
12133 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12135 o Removed features:
12136 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
12137 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
12138 bunch of compatibility code.
12140 o Code refactoring:
12141 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
12142 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
12143 the ORPort and the DirPort.
12146 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
12147 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
12148 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
12149 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
12151 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
12152 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
12153 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
12155 o Major features (bridges):
12156 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
12157 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
12158 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
12161 o Major features (IPv6):
12162 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
12163 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
12164 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
12165 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
12166 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
12167 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
12168 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
12169 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
12170 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
12172 o Major features (build):
12173 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
12174 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
12175 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
12176 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
12177 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
12178 fixes by Jim Meyering.
12179 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
12180 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
12181 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
12183 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
12184 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
12185 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
12186 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
12187 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
12188 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
12189 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
12190 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
12191 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
12192 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
12193 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
12195 o Minor features (streamlining);
12196 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
12197 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
12199 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
12200 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
12201 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
12202 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
12203 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
12204 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12206 o Minor features (controller):
12207 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
12209 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
12210 Implements ticket 4971.
12212 o Minor features (IPv6):
12213 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
12214 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
12215 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
12216 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
12217 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
12219 o Minor features (log messages):
12220 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
12221 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
12222 Resolves ticket 6758.
12223 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
12224 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
12225 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
12226 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12227 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
12228 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
12229 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
12231 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
12232 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
12233 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
12234 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
12235 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
12238 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12239 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
12240 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
12241 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
12242 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
12244 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
12245 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
12246 Implements ticket 5529.
12247 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
12248 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
12249 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
12250 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
12251 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
12252 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
12253 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
12254 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
12255 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
12256 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
12258 o New requirements:
12259 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
12260 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
12261 from a source distribution.)
12264 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
12265 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
12266 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
12267 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
12268 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
12269 and cleans up other smaller issues.
12271 o Major bugfixes (security):
12272 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
12273 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
12274 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
12275 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
12276 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
12277 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
12278 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
12279 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
12280 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
12281 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
12282 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
12283 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12284 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
12285 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
12286 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
12287 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
12291 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
12292 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
12293 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
12294 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12295 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
12296 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
12297 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
12298 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
12299 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
12300 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12303 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
12304 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
12305 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
12306 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
12307 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12308 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
12309 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
12310 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
12311 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
12312 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
12313 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
12315 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
12316 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
12317 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
12319 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
12320 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
12321 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
12322 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
12323 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12324 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
12325 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
12326 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
12327 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12328 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
12329 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12330 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
12331 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
12332 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
12335 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
12336 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
12337 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
12338 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
12339 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12340 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
12341 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
12342 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
12343 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
12344 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
12345 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
12346 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
12347 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
12348 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
12349 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
12352 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
12353 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
12354 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
12355 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
12356 Resolves ticket 6732.
12359 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
12360 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
12361 attack that could in theory leak path information.
12364 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
12365 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
12366 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12367 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
12368 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
12369 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
12370 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
12371 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
12372 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
12373 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
12374 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
12375 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
12376 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
12377 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
12380 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
12381 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
12382 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
12383 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
12386 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
12387 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
12388 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12389 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
12390 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
12391 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12392 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
12393 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
12394 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
12395 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
12396 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
12397 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
12398 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
12399 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
12400 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
12401 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
12402 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
12405 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
12406 a little more useful.
12407 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
12408 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12409 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
12410 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
12411 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
12412 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
12413 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
12416 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
12417 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12418 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
12419 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12420 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
12421 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
12425 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
12426 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
12427 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
12428 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
12429 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
12432 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
12433 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
12434 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
12437 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
12439 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
12441 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12442 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
12443 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
12444 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
12445 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
12448 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
12449 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
12450 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
12451 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
12452 since the beginning of Tor.
12455 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
12456 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
12457 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
12458 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
12459 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
12460 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
12461 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
12462 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12463 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
12464 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
12467 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
12468 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
12471 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
12472 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
12473 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
12474 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
12477 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
12478 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12479 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
12480 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
12481 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
12482 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12484 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
12485 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
12486 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
12487 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
12488 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
12489 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
12490 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12491 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
12492 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
12493 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
12494 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
12495 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
12496 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
12497 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12498 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
12499 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
12500 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12501 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
12502 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12504 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
12505 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
12506 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
12508 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
12509 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12510 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
12511 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
12513 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
12514 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12515 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
12516 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12517 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
12518 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
12519 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12520 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
12521 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
12522 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
12523 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12524 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
12525 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
12526 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
12527 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
12528 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
12531 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
12532 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
12533 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
12534 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
12535 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
12538 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
12539 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
12540 options. Closes bug 4748.
12543 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
12544 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
12545 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
12546 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
12547 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
12551 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
12552 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
12554 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
12555 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
12556 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
12557 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
12558 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
12559 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
12560 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
12561 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
12562 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
12565 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
12566 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
12567 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
12568 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
12569 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
12570 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
12571 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
12572 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
12575 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
12576 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
12577 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
12578 case for flushing marked connections.
12579 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
12580 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12581 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
12582 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
12583 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
12584 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
12585 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12586 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
12587 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12588 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
12589 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
12590 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
12591 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
12592 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
12593 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
12594 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
12595 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
12596 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
12597 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
12598 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
12599 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
12600 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
12601 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12602 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
12603 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
12605 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
12606 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12607 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
12611 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
12612 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
12613 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
12614 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
12615 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
12616 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
12617 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
12618 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
12619 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
12620 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
12621 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
12622 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
12623 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
12624 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
12625 Addresses ticket 5458.
12626 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12628 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12629 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
12630 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
12633 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
12634 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
12635 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
12639 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
12640 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
12641 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
12642 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
12643 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
12644 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
12645 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12646 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
12647 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
12648 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
12649 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12652 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
12653 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
12656 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
12657 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
12660 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
12661 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
12662 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
12663 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
12664 that get us closer to a release candidate.
12666 o Major bugfixes (general):
12667 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
12668 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
12669 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
12670 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
12671 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
12672 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
12673 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12674 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
12675 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
12677 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
12678 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
12679 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
12680 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
12683 o Major bugfixes (clients):
12684 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
12685 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
12686 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
12687 which introduced predicted ports.
12688 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
12689 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
12690 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
12691 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12692 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
12693 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
12694 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
12695 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
12696 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
12697 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
12698 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12699 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
12700 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
12702 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
12703 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
12704 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
12705 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
12706 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
12707 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12708 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
12709 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
12710 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
12711 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
12712 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
12716 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
12717 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
12718 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
12719 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
12720 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
12721 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
12722 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
12723 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
12724 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
12725 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
12726 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
12727 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
12728 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
12729 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
12731 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
12732 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
12733 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
12734 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
12735 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
12736 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
12737 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
12738 sure. Closes bug 5139.
12739 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
12740 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
12741 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
12742 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
12743 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
12744 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
12745 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12747 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
12748 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
12749 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
12750 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
12751 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
12752 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
12753 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
12754 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
12755 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
12756 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
12757 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
12758 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
12759 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
12760 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
12761 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
12762 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
12763 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
12764 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
12765 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
12766 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
12768 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
12769 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
12770 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
12771 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
12772 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
12773 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
12774 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
12775 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
12776 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
12777 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
12778 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
12779 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
12780 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
12782 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
12783 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12784 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
12785 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
12787 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
12788 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
12789 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12790 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
12791 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
12792 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12793 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
12794 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
12795 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
12796 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
12798 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
12799 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
12800 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
12802 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
12803 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
12804 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
12805 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
12806 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
12807 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
12808 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
12809 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
12810 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12811 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
12812 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
12813 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12814 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
12815 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
12816 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
12817 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12818 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
12819 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
12820 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
12821 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
12823 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
12824 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
12825 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12826 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
12827 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
12828 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
12830 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
12831 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
12832 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
12834 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
12835 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
12836 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
12837 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
12838 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
12839 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
12841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
12842 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
12843 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
12845 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
12846 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
12847 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12848 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
12849 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
12850 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12851 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
12852 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
12853 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
12854 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12855 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
12856 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
12857 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12858 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
12859 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
12860 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
12862 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
12863 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
12864 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12865 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
12866 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
12867 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12868 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
12869 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12870 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
12871 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
12872 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
12873 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
12874 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
12877 o Documentation fixes:
12878 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
12879 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
12880 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
12881 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
12882 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
12883 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
12886 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
12887 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
12891 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
12892 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
12893 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
12894 and fixes several crash bugs.
12896 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
12897 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
12898 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
12899 those packages and upgrade anyway.
12901 o Directory authority changes:
12902 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
12903 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
12907 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
12908 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
12909 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
12910 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
12911 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
12912 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
12913 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
12914 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
12915 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
12916 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
12917 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
12918 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
12919 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
12920 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
12921 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
12922 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
12923 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
12924 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
12925 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
12926 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
12927 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
12928 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
12929 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
12930 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
12931 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
12932 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
12933 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
12936 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
12937 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12938 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
12939 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
12941 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
12942 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
12944 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
12945 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
12946 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
12947 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
12948 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
12949 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
12950 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
12951 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
12954 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
12955 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
12956 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
12957 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
12958 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
12959 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
12960 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
12961 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
12962 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
12963 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
12964 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
12965 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
12966 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
12967 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
12968 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
12969 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
12970 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
12971 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
12972 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
12973 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
12974 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
12975 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
12976 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
12977 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
12978 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12979 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
12980 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
12981 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
12982 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
12983 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
12984 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
12985 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
12986 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12987 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
12988 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12989 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
12990 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
12991 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
12992 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
12993 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12994 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
12995 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12996 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
12997 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
12998 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
12999 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13001 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
13002 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
13003 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
13004 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
13005 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
13006 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
13007 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
13008 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
13009 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
13010 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
13011 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13012 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
13013 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13014 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
13015 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
13018 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
13019 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
13020 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
13021 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
13023 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13026 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
13027 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
13028 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
13029 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
13030 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
13031 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
13032 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
13035 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
13036 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
13037 the development branch build on Windows again.
13039 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
13040 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
13041 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
13042 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
13043 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
13044 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
13045 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
13046 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
13047 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13048 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
13049 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
13050 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
13051 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13052 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
13053 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
13055 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
13056 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
13057 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
13058 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13059 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
13060 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13061 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
13062 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13063 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
13064 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
13065 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
13066 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
13069 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
13070 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
13071 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
13072 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
13073 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
13074 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
13075 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
13076 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
13077 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
13079 o Removed features:
13080 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
13081 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
13082 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
13083 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
13087 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
13088 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
13089 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
13090 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
13092 o Directory authority changes:
13093 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
13097 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
13098 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13099 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
13100 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
13102 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
13103 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
13104 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
13105 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
13106 documents entirely.
13107 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
13108 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
13109 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13111 o Major features (performance):
13112 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
13113 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
13114 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
13115 much faster than other AES implementations.
13117 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
13118 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
13119 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
13120 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
13121 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
13122 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
13123 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
13124 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
13125 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
13126 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
13127 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13128 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
13129 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
13130 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
13131 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13132 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
13133 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
13134 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13136 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
13137 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
13138 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
13139 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13140 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
13141 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13142 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
13143 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
13144 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
13146 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
13147 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
13148 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
13149 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
13150 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
13151 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
13154 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
13155 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
13156 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
13157 please let us know about it.
13158 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
13159 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
13160 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
13161 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
13162 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13163 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13164 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
13165 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
13167 o Default torrc changes:
13168 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
13169 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
13171 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
13172 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
13173 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
13176 o Removed features:
13177 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
13178 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
13179 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
13180 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
13182 o Code refactoring:
13183 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
13184 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
13185 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
13186 it would be a bad idea to start.
13189 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
13190 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
13191 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
13192 that get us closer to a release candidate.
13194 o Directory authority changes:
13195 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
13198 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
13199 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
13200 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
13201 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
13202 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
13203 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
13204 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
13205 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
13206 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
13207 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
13208 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
13209 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
13210 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
13211 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
13212 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
13213 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
13215 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
13216 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
13217 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
13218 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
13219 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
13220 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13221 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
13222 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
13223 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13224 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
13225 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
13226 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
13228 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
13229 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
13230 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13231 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
13232 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
13234 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
13235 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
13236 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
13237 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
13238 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
13239 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
13240 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
13241 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
13242 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
13243 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
13244 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
13245 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
13246 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13247 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
13248 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13249 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
13250 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
13251 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
13252 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
13253 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
13254 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
13255 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
13258 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
13259 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
13260 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13261 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
13262 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
13263 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
13264 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
13265 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
13266 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13267 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
13268 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
13269 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
13270 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
13271 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
13272 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
13273 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
13274 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
13277 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
13278 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
13279 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13282 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
13283 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
13284 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
13285 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
13288 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
13289 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
13291 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
13292 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
13293 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
13294 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13295 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
13296 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
13297 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
13298 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13299 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
13300 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
13301 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
13302 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13305 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
13306 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
13307 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
13308 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
13309 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
13310 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
13311 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13314 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
13315 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
13316 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
13317 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13318 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
13319 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
13320 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
13321 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
13322 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
13323 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
13325 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
13326 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
13327 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
13328 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
13329 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13330 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
13331 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
13332 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
13333 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
13336 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13337 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
13338 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
13342 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
13343 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
13344 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
13345 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
13346 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
13347 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
13350 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
13351 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
13352 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
13353 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
13354 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
13355 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
13356 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
13357 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
13359 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
13360 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
13361 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
13362 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
13363 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
13364 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
13365 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
13366 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
13368 o Major security workaround:
13369 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
13370 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
13371 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
13372 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
13373 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
13374 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
13375 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
13376 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
13377 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
13378 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
13379 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
13382 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
13383 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
13384 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
13385 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
13386 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
13387 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
13388 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
13389 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13390 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
13391 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
13392 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
13393 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
13394 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
13396 o Minor features (controller):
13397 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
13398 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
13399 file. Resolves bug 1101.
13400 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
13401 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
13402 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
13403 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
13404 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
13405 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
13407 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
13408 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
13409 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
13410 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
13411 part of ticket 3457.
13412 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
13413 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
13414 circuit-status' control-port command.
13416 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13417 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
13418 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
13419 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
13420 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
13422 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
13423 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
13424 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
13425 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
13426 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
13427 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
13428 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
13430 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
13431 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
13433 o Minor features (other):
13434 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
13435 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
13436 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
13437 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
13438 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
13439 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
13440 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
13441 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
13443 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
13444 them from the other auths.
13445 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
13446 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
13447 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
13448 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
13449 the 0.2.3.x series.
13450 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13452 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13453 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
13454 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
13455 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
13456 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
13457 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
13458 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
13459 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
13460 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
13461 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
13462 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13463 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
13464 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
13465 be disabled using the new
13466 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
13467 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13468 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
13469 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
13470 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
13471 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
13472 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
13473 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
13474 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
13475 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
13476 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
13477 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
13479 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
13480 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
13481 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
13484 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
13485 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
13486 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
13488 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
13489 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
13490 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
13491 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
13492 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13493 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
13494 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13496 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
13497 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
13498 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
13499 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
13500 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
13501 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
13502 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
13503 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
13505 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
13506 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
13507 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13508 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
13509 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
13510 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
13511 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
13512 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
13513 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
13516 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13517 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
13518 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
13519 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
13520 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
13521 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
13522 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
13523 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
13524 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
13525 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
13526 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
13527 accidentally been reverted.
13528 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
13529 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
13530 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
13531 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
13532 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
13533 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
13534 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13535 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
13536 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
13537 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13538 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
13539 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
13540 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
13541 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
13542 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13543 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
13544 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13545 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
13546 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13549 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
13550 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
13551 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
13552 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
13553 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
13554 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
13555 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
13557 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13558 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
13559 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
13560 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
13561 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
13562 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
13563 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
13565 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
13566 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
13567 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
13568 invalid value, rather than just -1.
13569 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
13570 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
13571 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
13572 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
13573 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
13574 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
13575 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
13579 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
13580 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
13581 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
13583 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
13584 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
13585 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
13586 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
13587 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
13588 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
13589 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
13590 (which Tor does not do by default).
13592 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
13593 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
13594 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
13595 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
13596 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
13598 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
13602 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
13603 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
13604 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
13605 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
13608 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
13609 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
13610 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
13611 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
13612 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
13613 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
13614 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
13615 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
13616 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
13617 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
13618 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13621 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13624 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
13625 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
13626 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
13628 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
13629 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
13630 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
13631 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
13632 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
13633 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
13634 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
13635 (which Tor does not do by default).
13637 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
13638 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
13639 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
13640 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
13641 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
13643 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
13644 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
13645 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
13648 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
13649 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
13650 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
13651 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
13652 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
13654 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
13655 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
13658 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
13659 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
13660 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
13661 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
13662 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
13663 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
13664 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
13665 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
13667 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
13668 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
13669 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
13670 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
13671 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
13672 close based on processing a cell on it.
13673 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
13674 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
13675 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
13676 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13677 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
13678 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
13679 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13680 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
13681 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
13682 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
13683 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
13684 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
13685 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
13686 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
13687 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
13690 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
13691 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
13692 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
13693 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
13694 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
13695 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
13696 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
13698 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
13699 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
13700 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
13701 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
13702 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
13703 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13704 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
13705 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
13706 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13707 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
13708 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
13709 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
13710 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
13711 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13712 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
13713 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
13714 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
13715 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
13716 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13717 Reported by "troll_un".
13718 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
13719 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13720 Reported by "troll_un".
13721 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
13722 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
13723 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
13724 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
13727 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
13728 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
13729 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
13730 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
13731 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
13732 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
13733 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
13734 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
13735 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
13736 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
13737 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13739 o Packaging changes:
13740 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
13741 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
13744 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
13745 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
13746 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
13747 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
13748 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
13750 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
13751 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
13753 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
13754 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
13755 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
13756 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
13757 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13758 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
13759 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
13760 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
13761 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
13764 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13767 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
13768 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
13769 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
13770 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
13771 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
13772 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
13773 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
13776 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
13777 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
13778 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
13779 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
13780 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
13781 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
13782 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
13783 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
13784 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
13785 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
13786 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
13787 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
13788 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
13789 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
13790 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
13791 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
13792 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
13793 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
13794 Resolves ticket 4526.
13795 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
13796 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
13797 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
13798 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
13799 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
13800 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
13801 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
13802 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
13803 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
13804 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
13805 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
13806 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
13807 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
13808 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
13809 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
13810 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
13813 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
13814 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
13815 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
13816 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
13817 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
13818 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
13819 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
13820 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
13821 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
13822 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
13824 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
13825 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
13826 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
13827 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
13828 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
13829 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
13830 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
13831 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
13832 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
13834 o Minor features (new/different config options):
13835 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
13836 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
13837 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
13838 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
13839 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
13840 Implements issue 933.
13841 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
13842 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
13843 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
13844 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
13845 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
13846 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
13847 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
13848 appending to the list.
13849 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
13850 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
13851 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
13852 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
13854 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
13855 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
13856 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
13857 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
13858 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
13859 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
13860 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
13861 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
13864 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
13865 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
13866 Resolves ticket 2474.
13867 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
13868 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
13869 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
13870 Required by fix for bug 3460.
13871 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
13872 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
13873 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
13874 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
13875 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
13876 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
13877 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
13878 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
13879 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
13881 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
13882 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
13883 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
13885 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
13887 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
13888 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
13890 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
13891 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
13892 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
13893 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
13894 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
13895 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
13896 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
13898 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
13899 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
13900 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13901 Reported by "troll_un".
13902 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
13903 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13904 Reported by "troll_un".
13905 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
13906 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
13907 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
13908 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
13910 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
13911 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
13913 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
13914 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
13915 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
13916 with help from wanoskarnet.
13917 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
13918 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13921 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
13922 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
13923 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
13924 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13926 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
13927 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
13928 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
13929 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
13930 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
13931 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
13932 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
13933 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
13936 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
13937 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
13938 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
13939 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
13940 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
13941 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
13942 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
13943 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
13944 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
13947 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
13948 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
13949 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
13950 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
13952 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
13953 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
13954 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
13955 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13956 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
13957 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
13958 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
13959 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
13960 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
13961 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
13962 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
13963 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
13964 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
13965 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
13966 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
13967 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
13968 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
13969 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
13970 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
13971 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
13972 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
13973 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
13974 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
13975 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
13978 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
13979 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
13980 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
13981 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
13982 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
13983 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13984 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
13985 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
13988 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
13989 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
13990 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
13991 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
13992 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
13993 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
13994 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
13995 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
13996 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
13997 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
13998 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
13999 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
14000 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
14001 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
14002 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
14004 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
14005 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
14006 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
14007 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
14008 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14009 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
14010 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
14011 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14012 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
14013 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
14014 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
14015 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
14016 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
14017 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14018 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
14019 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
14020 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14022 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
14023 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
14024 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
14025 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
14026 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14027 Found by frosty_un.
14028 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
14029 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
14030 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
14032 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
14033 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
14034 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
14036 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
14037 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
14039 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
14040 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14043 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
14044 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
14045 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
14046 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
14047 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
14048 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
14049 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
14050 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
14051 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
14052 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
14053 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
14054 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
14055 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
14056 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
14058 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
14059 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
14060 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14062 o Packaging changes:
14063 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
14064 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
14066 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14067 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
14068 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
14069 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
14070 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
14071 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
14072 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
14073 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
14074 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
14077 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
14079 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
14080 ./src/test/bench binary.
14081 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
14082 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
14085 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
14086 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
14087 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
14091 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
14092 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
14093 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
14094 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
14095 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
14096 close based on processing a cell on it.
14097 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
14098 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
14099 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14100 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
14101 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
14102 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
14103 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
14104 cells were introduced.
14107 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
14108 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
14111 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
14112 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
14113 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
14114 users. Everybody should upgrade.
14116 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
14117 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
14120 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
14121 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
14122 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
14123 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
14124 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
14125 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
14127 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
14128 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
14129 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
14130 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
14131 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
14132 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
14133 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
14134 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
14135 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
14136 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
14137 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
14138 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
14139 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
14140 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
14141 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
14142 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
14143 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
14144 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
14147 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14148 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
14149 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
14150 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
14151 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
14152 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
14153 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
14154 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
14155 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
14156 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
14157 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
14158 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
14159 Partly fixes bug 3825.
14160 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
14161 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
14162 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
14163 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
14164 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
14165 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
14166 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
14168 o Major bugfixes (other):
14169 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
14170 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
14171 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
14172 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14173 Found by "frosty_un".
14174 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
14175 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
14176 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
14177 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
14178 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
14179 immensely in tracking this bug down.
14180 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
14181 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
14184 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
14185 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
14186 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
14187 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
14188 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
14189 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
14190 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
14191 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
14192 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
14193 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
14194 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
14195 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
14196 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
14197 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14198 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
14199 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
14200 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
14201 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
14202 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
14203 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
14204 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
14206 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
14207 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
14208 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
14209 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14210 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
14211 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
14212 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
14213 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
14214 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
14215 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
14216 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
14219 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
14220 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
14221 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
14222 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
14223 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
14224 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
14225 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
14226 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
14227 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
14228 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
14229 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
14230 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
14231 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
14232 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14234 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14235 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
14236 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
14237 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
14238 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
14239 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
14240 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
14241 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
14244 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
14245 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
14246 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
14248 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
14249 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
14250 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
14251 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
14252 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
14253 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
14254 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
14255 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
14256 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
14257 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
14258 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
14259 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
14260 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
14262 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
14263 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
14264 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
14265 currently connected to them.
14267 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
14268 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
14269 remain; see for example proposal 188.
14271 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
14272 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
14273 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
14274 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
14275 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
14276 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
14277 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
14278 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
14279 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
14280 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
14281 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
14282 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
14283 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
14284 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
14285 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
14286 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
14287 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
14288 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
14291 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
14292 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
14293 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
14294 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
14295 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
14296 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
14297 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
14298 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
14299 when bridges were introduced.
14300 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
14301 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
14302 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
14303 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14304 Found by "frosty_un".
14307 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
14308 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
14310 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
14311 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
14312 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
14313 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
14314 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
14315 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
14316 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
14319 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
14320 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
14321 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
14322 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
14323 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
14324 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
14325 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
14326 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
14327 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
14328 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
14329 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
14330 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
14331 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
14332 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
14333 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
14334 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
14335 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
14336 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
14338 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
14339 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
14340 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
14341 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14342 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
14343 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
14344 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
14345 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
14346 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
14347 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
14348 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
14349 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14352 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
14353 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
14354 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
14355 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14358 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
14359 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
14360 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
14361 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
14362 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
14364 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14365 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
14366 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
14367 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
14368 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
14369 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
14370 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
14371 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
14372 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
14373 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14375 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14376 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
14377 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
14378 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
14379 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
14380 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
14381 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
14382 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
14383 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
14384 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
14385 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
14386 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
14387 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
14388 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
14389 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14390 Found by "frosty_un".
14391 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
14392 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
14393 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
14394 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
14395 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
14396 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
14397 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
14398 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
14399 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14400 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
14401 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
14402 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
14403 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14404 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
14405 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
14406 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
14407 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
14408 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
14409 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
14411 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14412 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
14413 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
14414 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
14415 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
14416 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
14417 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
14418 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
14420 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
14421 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
14422 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
14423 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
14424 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
14425 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
14426 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
14427 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
14428 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
14429 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
14430 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
14431 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
14433 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
14434 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14435 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
14436 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14437 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
14438 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14439 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
14440 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
14441 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
14443 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
14445 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
14446 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
14447 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
14448 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14449 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
14450 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
14451 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
14452 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14454 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
14455 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
14456 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
14457 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
14458 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
14460 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
14461 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
14462 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
14463 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
14464 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14467 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
14468 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
14469 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
14470 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
14471 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
14474 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
14475 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
14476 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
14477 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
14478 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
14479 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
14480 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
14481 when bridges were introduced.
14484 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
14485 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
14486 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14488 o Major features (networking):
14489 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
14490 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
14491 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
14492 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
14493 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
14497 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
14498 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
14499 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
14501 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
14502 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
14503 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
14504 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
14505 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14507 o Minor features (diagnostics):
14508 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
14509 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
14512 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
14513 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
14514 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
14515 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
14516 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
14517 listed in the network consensus and republish.
14519 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
14520 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
14521 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
14522 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14524 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
14525 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
14526 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
14527 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
14528 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
14529 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
14530 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
14531 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
14532 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
14533 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
14534 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
14536 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
14537 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
14538 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
14539 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
14540 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
14541 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
14542 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
14543 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
14544 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
14545 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14547 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
14548 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
14549 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
14550 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
14551 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
14552 fixes part of bug 2442.
14553 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
14554 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
14555 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
14557 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
14558 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
14559 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
14560 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
14561 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14563 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
14564 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
14565 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
14566 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
14567 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
14570 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
14571 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
14572 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
14576 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
14577 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
14578 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
14579 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
14580 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
14581 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
14582 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
14585 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
14586 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
14587 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
14588 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
14589 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
14590 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
14591 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
14594 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
14595 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
14596 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
14597 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
14598 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
14599 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
14600 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
14601 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
14602 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14604 o Code refactoring:
14605 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
14606 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
14609 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
14610 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
14611 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
14612 reachable from Iran again.
14615 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
14616 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
14617 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14619 o Minor features (security):
14620 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
14621 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
14622 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
14623 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
14624 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
14625 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
14626 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
14627 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
14628 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
14629 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
14632 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
14633 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
14634 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
14635 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
14636 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
14637 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
14638 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
14639 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
14640 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14642 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
14643 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
14644 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
14645 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
14646 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
14647 raised by bug 3898.
14648 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
14649 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
14650 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
14651 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
14652 fixes part of bug 2442.
14653 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
14654 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
14655 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
14657 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
14658 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
14659 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
14660 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
14661 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14664 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
14665 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14666 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
14667 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
14668 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
14669 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
14672 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
14673 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
14674 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
14675 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
14676 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
14677 bufferevent-based networking backend.
14679 o Major features (stream isolation):
14680 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
14681 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
14682 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
14683 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
14684 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
14685 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
14686 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
14687 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
14688 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
14689 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
14690 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
14691 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
14692 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
14693 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
14695 o Major features (other):
14696 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
14697 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
14698 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
14699 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
14700 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
14701 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
14702 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
14703 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
14704 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
14705 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
14706 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
14707 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
14708 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
14710 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
14711 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
14713 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
14714 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
14715 Fixes part of bug 3752.
14716 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
14717 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
14718 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
14719 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
14720 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
14721 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
14722 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
14723 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
14724 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
14725 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
14726 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
14727 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
14728 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
14729 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
14730 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
14731 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
14732 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
14734 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
14735 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
14736 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
14737 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
14738 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
14739 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
14742 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
14743 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
14744 user. Implements ticket 1692.
14745 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
14746 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
14747 best copy data out of a buffer.
14748 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
14749 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
14750 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
14752 o Minor features (build compatibility):
14753 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
14754 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
14755 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14757 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
14758 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14760 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
14761 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
14762 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14763 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
14764 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
14765 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
14766 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14768 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
14769 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
14770 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
14771 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
14772 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
14773 raised by bug 3898.
14774 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
14775 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
14776 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
14779 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
14780 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
14781 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
14782 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
14783 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
14784 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
14785 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
14786 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
14787 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
14788 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
14789 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
14790 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14791 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
14792 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
14793 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
14794 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
14795 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
14796 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
14797 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
14800 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14801 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
14802 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
14806 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
14807 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
14808 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
14809 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
14810 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
14811 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
14814 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
14815 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
14816 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
14817 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
14818 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
14819 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
14820 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
14821 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
14822 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
14823 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
14825 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
14826 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
14827 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
14828 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
14829 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
14830 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
14831 many many other features and bugfixes.
14834 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
14835 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
14836 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
14839 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
14840 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
14841 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
14842 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
14843 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
14844 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
14845 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
14846 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
14849 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14852 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
14853 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
14854 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14855 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
14856 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
14857 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
14858 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
14859 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
14860 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
14861 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
14862 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
14863 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
14864 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
14865 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14866 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
14867 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
14868 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
14869 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
14873 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
14874 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
14875 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
14876 up a variety of recently introduced features.
14879 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
14880 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
14881 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
14882 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
14883 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
14884 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
14885 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
14886 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
14887 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
14888 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
14889 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
14890 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
14891 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
14892 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
14893 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
14894 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
14896 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
14897 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
14898 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
14899 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
14900 order. Fixes bug 2798.
14901 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
14902 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
14903 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
14904 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
14905 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
14906 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
14910 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
14911 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
14912 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
14913 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
14915 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
14916 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
14917 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
14918 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
14919 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
14920 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
14921 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
14922 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
14923 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
14924 Implements ticket 3264.
14925 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
14926 implements ticket 3439.
14928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
14929 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
14930 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
14931 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
14932 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
14933 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
14934 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
14935 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
14936 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
14937 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
14938 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
14939 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
14940 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
14941 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
14942 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
14943 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
14944 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
14945 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
14946 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
14947 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
14948 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
14949 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
14950 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
14951 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
14952 fails. Spotted by coverity.
14953 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
14954 present. Found by coverity.
14955 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
14956 a directory cache that provides them.
14958 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
14959 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
14960 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
14961 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
14962 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
14963 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
14965 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
14966 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
14967 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14968 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
14969 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
14970 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14971 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
14972 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
14974 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14975 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
14976 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
14977 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
14978 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
14979 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
14980 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
14982 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
14986 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
14987 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
14988 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
14991 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
14992 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
14993 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
14994 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
14997 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
14998 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
14999 discovered by katmagic.
15000 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
15001 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
15002 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
15003 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15004 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
15005 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
15006 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
15007 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15008 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
15009 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
15010 fixes part of bug 3465.
15011 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
15012 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
15016 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15019 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
15020 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
15021 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
15022 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
15023 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
15026 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
15027 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
15028 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
15029 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
15030 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
15033 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
15034 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
15035 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
15036 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
15037 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
15038 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
15041 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
15042 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
15043 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
15044 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15045 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
15046 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
15047 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
15048 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
15049 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
15050 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
15051 fixes part of bug 3407.
15052 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
15053 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
15054 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
15055 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
15056 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
15057 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
15058 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
15059 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
15060 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
15061 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
15063 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
15064 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
15065 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
15066 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
15069 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15071 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15072 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
15073 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
15075 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
15077 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
15080 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
15081 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
15082 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
15083 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
15084 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
15085 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
15089 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
15090 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
15091 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
15092 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15093 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
15094 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
15095 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
15097 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
15098 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15099 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
15100 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
15101 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
15102 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
15103 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
15104 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
15105 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
15106 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
15107 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
15108 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
15109 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
15110 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
15111 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
15112 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
15113 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
15114 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
15115 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
15119 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
15120 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
15121 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
15122 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
15123 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
15124 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
15125 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
15126 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
15127 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
15131 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
15132 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
15133 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
15135 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
15137 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
15138 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
15139 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
15140 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
15141 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15142 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
15143 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
15144 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
15145 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
15147 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
15148 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
15149 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
15150 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
15151 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
15152 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
15154 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
15155 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
15157 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
15158 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
15159 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15162 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
15163 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
15164 Resolves ticket 3252.
15165 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
15166 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
15167 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
15168 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
15169 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
15170 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
15173 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
15174 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
15177 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
15178 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
15179 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
15182 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
15183 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15184 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
15185 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
15186 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
15189 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
15190 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15191 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
15192 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
15193 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
15194 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
15195 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
15196 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
15197 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
15201 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
15202 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
15203 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
15204 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
15205 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
15207 o Security/privacy fixes:
15208 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
15209 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
15210 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
15211 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
15212 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
15213 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
15214 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
15215 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
15216 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
15217 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
15218 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
15219 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
15220 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
15221 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
15222 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15225 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
15226 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
15227 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
15228 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
15229 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
15230 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
15231 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
15232 part of ticket 3076.
15233 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
15234 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
15235 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
15239 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
15240 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
15241 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
15242 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
15243 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
15244 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
15245 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
15246 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
15248 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
15249 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
15250 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
15251 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
15252 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
15253 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
15254 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
15255 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
15256 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
15257 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
15258 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
15259 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
15260 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15263 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
15264 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
15265 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
15266 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
15267 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
15268 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
15269 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
15271 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
15272 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
15273 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
15274 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
15275 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
15276 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
15277 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
15278 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
15279 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
15280 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
15281 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
15282 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
15283 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
15284 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
15285 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
15286 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
15288 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
15289 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
15291 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
15292 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
15294 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
15295 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
15297 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
15298 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
15299 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15301 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
15302 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
15303 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
15304 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
15305 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15306 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
15307 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
15308 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
15309 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
15310 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
15311 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
15313 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
15314 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
15315 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
15316 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
15317 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
15318 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
15319 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
15320 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
15321 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
15322 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
15323 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15324 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
15325 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
15328 o Removed features:
15329 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
15330 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
15331 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
15335 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
15336 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
15337 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
15338 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
15339 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
15340 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
15342 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
15343 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
15344 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
15347 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
15348 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
15349 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
15350 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
15351 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
15352 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
15353 zero-copy transports where available.
15354 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
15355 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
15356 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
15357 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
15358 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
15359 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
15360 debug it as it breaks.
15361 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
15362 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
15363 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
15364 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
15365 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
15366 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
15367 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
15368 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
15369 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
15370 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
15371 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
15372 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
15373 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
15374 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
15375 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
15376 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
15377 PortForwarding option.
15378 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
15379 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
15380 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
15381 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
15382 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
15383 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
15384 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
15387 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
15388 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
15389 Implements enhancement 1668.
15390 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
15392 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
15393 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
15394 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
15395 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
15396 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
15397 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
15398 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
15400 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
15401 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
15402 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
15403 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
15404 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
15405 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
15406 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
15408 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
15409 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
15410 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
15411 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
15412 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
15413 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
15414 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
15416 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
15417 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
15418 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
15419 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
15420 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15421 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
15422 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
15423 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
15424 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
15425 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
15426 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
15427 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
15428 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
15429 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
15430 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
15433 o Minor features (controller):
15434 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
15435 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
15436 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
15437 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
15438 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
15439 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
15440 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
15443 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
15444 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
15445 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
15446 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
15447 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
15448 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
15449 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
15450 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
15452 o Minor packaging issues:
15453 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
15454 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
15456 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15457 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
15458 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
15459 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
15460 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
15461 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
15462 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
15463 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
15464 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
15465 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
15466 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
15467 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
15468 our library structure used to force them to link it.
15470 o Removed features:
15471 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
15472 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
15473 are no longer in use as servers.
15475 o Documentation fixes:
15476 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
15477 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
15478 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
15482 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
15483 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
15484 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
15485 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
15486 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
15487 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
15488 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
15489 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
15490 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
15491 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
15494 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
15495 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
15496 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
15497 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
15498 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
15499 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
15500 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
15501 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
15502 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
15503 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15504 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
15505 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
15506 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15507 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
15508 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
15509 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
15511 o Security and stability fixes:
15512 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
15513 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
15514 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
15515 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
15516 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
15517 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
15518 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
15519 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
15520 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
15521 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
15522 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
15523 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
15524 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15525 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
15526 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
15527 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15530 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
15531 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
15532 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
15533 contributions to the network.
15535 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
15536 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
15537 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
15538 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
15539 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
15540 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
15541 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
15542 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
15543 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
15544 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
15545 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
15546 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
15547 connections to directory servers.
15548 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
15549 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
15550 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
15551 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
15552 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
15553 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
15554 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
15555 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
15556 information, or fetch directory information.
15557 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
15558 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
15559 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
15560 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
15561 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
15562 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
15563 unless you really want your Tor to break.
15564 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
15565 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
15566 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
15567 - When StrictNodes is 1:
15568 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
15569 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
15570 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
15571 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
15572 reachability self-tests.
15573 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
15574 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
15575 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
15576 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
15577 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15578 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
15579 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
15581 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
15582 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15583 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
15584 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
15585 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
15586 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15587 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
15588 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
15589 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
15590 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
15591 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
15594 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
15595 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
15596 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
15597 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
15598 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
15599 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
15600 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
15601 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
15602 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
15603 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
15604 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
15605 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15606 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
15607 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
15608 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
15609 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
15610 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
15612 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
15613 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
15614 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
15615 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
15616 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15617 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
15618 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15619 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
15620 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15621 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
15622 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
15623 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
15624 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
15625 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
15626 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
15627 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15628 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
15629 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
15630 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
15631 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
15634 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
15635 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
15636 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
15637 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
15638 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
15639 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
15640 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
15641 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
15642 Required by fix for bug 3000.
15643 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
15644 by fix for bug 3000.
15645 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
15646 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
15648 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15649 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
15650 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
15651 send a body too). Since only server versions before
15652 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
15653 keep the workaround in place.
15654 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
15655 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
15656 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
15657 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
15658 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
15659 want to do it differently.
15660 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
15661 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
15662 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
15663 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
15664 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
15668 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
15669 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
15670 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
15671 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
15672 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
15675 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
15676 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
15677 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
15678 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
15679 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
15681 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
15682 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
15683 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
15684 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
15685 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
15686 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
15687 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
15688 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
15689 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
15690 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
15691 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
15692 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
15695 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
15696 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
15697 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
15698 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
15699 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
15700 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
15701 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
15703 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
15704 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
15705 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
15706 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
15707 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
15708 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
15709 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
15710 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
15711 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
15712 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
15713 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
15714 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
15715 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
15716 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
15717 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
15718 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
15719 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
15720 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
15721 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
15722 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
15723 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
15724 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
15725 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15728 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
15729 networkstatus vote.
15730 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
15731 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
15732 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
15734 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
15735 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
15736 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
15737 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
15739 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
15740 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
15741 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
15742 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15745 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
15746 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
15748 o Documentation changes:
15749 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
15750 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
15752 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
15755 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
15756 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
15757 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
15758 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
15759 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
15760 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
15763 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
15764 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
15765 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
15766 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
15767 the rest of bug 1074.
15768 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
15769 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
15770 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
15771 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
15772 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
15773 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
15774 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15775 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
15776 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
15777 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
15778 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
15779 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
15780 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
15781 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15784 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
15785 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
15786 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
15787 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
15788 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
15789 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
15790 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
15791 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
15792 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
15793 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
15794 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
15795 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
15796 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
15797 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
15799 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
15800 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
15801 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
15802 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
15803 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
15804 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15806 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
15807 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
15808 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
15809 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
15810 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
15811 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
15812 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
15813 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
15814 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
15815 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15816 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
15817 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
15818 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
15819 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
15820 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
15821 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
15822 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
15823 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
15824 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
15825 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
15826 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
15827 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
15828 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
15829 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15830 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
15831 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
15833 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
15834 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
15835 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
15836 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
15837 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
15838 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
15840 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
15841 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
15842 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
15844 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
15845 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
15846 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
15847 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
15848 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
15849 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
15850 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
15851 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
15852 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
15853 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
15854 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
15855 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
15856 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
15860 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
15861 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
15862 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
15863 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
15864 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
15865 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
15866 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
15867 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
15868 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
15869 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
15870 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
15871 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
15873 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15875 o Minor features (log subsystem):
15876 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
15877 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
15878 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
15880 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
15881 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
15883 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
15884 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
15885 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
15888 o Packaging changes:
15889 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
15890 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
15891 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
15894 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
15895 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
15896 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
15897 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
15898 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
15899 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
15902 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
15903 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
15904 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
15905 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
15906 the rest of bug 1074.
15907 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
15908 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15909 Found by "piebeer".
15910 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
15911 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
15912 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
15913 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
15914 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
15915 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
15916 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15919 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
15921 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15924 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
15925 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
15926 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
15927 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
15928 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
15929 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
15930 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
15931 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
15932 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
15933 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
15934 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15936 o Packaging changes:
15937 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
15938 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
15939 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
15940 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
15941 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
15942 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
15945 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
15946 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
15947 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
15948 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
15949 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
15950 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
15953 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
15954 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15955 Found by "piebeer".
15956 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
15957 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
15958 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
15959 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
15962 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
15964 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
15965 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
15966 Implements ticket 2432.
15969 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
15970 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
15971 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
15974 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
15975 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
15976 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
15977 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
15978 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
15979 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
15981 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
15982 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
15983 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
15984 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
15986 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
15987 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
15988 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
15989 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
15990 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
15991 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
15992 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
15993 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
15995 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
15996 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
15997 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
15998 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
15999 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
16000 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
16001 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
16002 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
16003 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
16004 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
16005 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
16006 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
16007 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
16008 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
16011 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
16012 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
16013 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
16014 bug reported by doorss.
16015 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
16016 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
16017 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16018 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
16019 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
16021 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
16022 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
16023 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
16024 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
16025 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16027 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
16028 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16029 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
16031 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
16032 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
16033 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
16034 Automake 1.7 or later.
16035 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
16036 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
16037 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
16038 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
16040 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
16041 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
16042 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
16045 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
16046 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
16047 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
16048 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
16050 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
16051 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
16052 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
16053 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
16054 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
16055 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
16056 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
16057 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
16058 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
16060 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
16061 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
16062 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
16065 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
16066 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
16067 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
16068 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
16069 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
16070 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
16071 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
16072 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
16073 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
16074 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
16075 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
16076 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
16077 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
16079 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
16080 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
16084 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
16085 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
16086 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
16087 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
16088 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
16090 o Major bugfixes (security):
16091 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
16092 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
16093 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
16095 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
16096 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
16097 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
16098 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
16099 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
16100 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
16101 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
16102 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
16104 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16105 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
16106 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
16107 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
16108 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
16109 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
16110 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
16111 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
16112 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
16113 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
16114 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
16115 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
16116 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
16117 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
16120 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16121 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
16122 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
16123 bug reported by doorss.
16124 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
16125 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
16126 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16127 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
16128 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
16130 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
16131 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
16132 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
16133 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
16134 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16135 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
16136 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
16137 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
16138 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
16141 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16142 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
16145 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
16146 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
16147 Automake 1.7 or later.
16150 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
16151 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
16152 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
16153 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
16154 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
16157 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
16158 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
16159 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
16160 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
16161 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
16162 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
16163 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
16164 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
16165 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
16166 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
16167 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
16169 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
16170 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
16171 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
16172 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
16174 o Directory authority changes:
16175 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
16178 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
16179 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
16180 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
16181 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
16182 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
16183 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16184 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
16185 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
16186 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
16189 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16190 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
16191 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
16192 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
16193 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
16194 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
16195 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
16196 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
16197 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
16198 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
16202 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
16203 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
16204 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
16205 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
16209 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
16210 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
16211 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
16212 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
16214 o Directory authority changes:
16215 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
16218 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16221 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
16222 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
16223 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
16224 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
16225 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
16228 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
16229 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
16230 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
16231 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
16232 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16233 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
16234 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
16235 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
16236 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
16237 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16238 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
16239 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16240 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
16241 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
16242 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
16243 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
16244 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
16245 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16246 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
16247 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
16248 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
16249 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
16250 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
16253 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
16254 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
16255 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
16256 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
16258 o New directory authorities:
16259 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
16263 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
16264 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
16265 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
16267 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
16268 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16269 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
16270 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
16271 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
16272 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
16274 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
16275 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
16276 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
16279 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
16280 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
16281 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
16282 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
16283 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
16284 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
16285 Patch from mingw-san.
16288 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
16289 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
16290 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
16291 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
16292 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
16293 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
16296 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
16297 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
16298 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
16301 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
16302 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
16303 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
16304 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
16305 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16308 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
16309 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
16310 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
16311 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
16312 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
16313 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
16314 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
16315 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
16316 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
16319 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
16320 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
16321 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
16322 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
16323 to a stable release.
16326 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
16327 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
16328 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
16329 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16330 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
16331 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
16332 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
16333 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
16334 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16335 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
16336 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
16337 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
16338 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
16339 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
16340 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
16341 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
16342 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
16343 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
16344 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
16345 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
16346 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
16347 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
16348 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
16349 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
16350 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16351 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
16352 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
16353 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
16354 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
16355 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
16356 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
16359 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
16360 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
16361 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
16362 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
16363 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
16364 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
16365 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
16366 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
16367 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
16368 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
16369 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
16370 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
16371 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
16372 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16373 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
16374 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
16375 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
16377 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
16378 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
16379 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
16380 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
16381 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
16383 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
16384 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
16385 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
16386 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
16389 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
16390 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
16391 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
16392 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
16393 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
16394 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
16395 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
16396 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16398 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16399 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
16400 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
16401 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
16402 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
16403 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
16404 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
16405 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
16406 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
16407 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
16408 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
16409 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
16410 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
16411 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
16412 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
16415 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
16416 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
16417 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
16418 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
16419 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
16420 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
16421 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
16422 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
16423 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
16426 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
16427 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
16428 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
16429 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
16430 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
16432 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
16433 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
16434 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
16435 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
16436 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
16437 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
16438 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16439 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
16440 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
16441 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
16442 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
16443 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
16444 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
16445 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
16447 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
16448 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
16450 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
16451 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
16452 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
16453 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
16454 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
16455 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
16456 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
16457 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
16458 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
16459 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
16460 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
16461 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
16462 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
16463 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
16464 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
16465 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
16466 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
16467 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
16469 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
16470 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
16471 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
16472 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
16473 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
16474 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
16475 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
16476 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
16477 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
16478 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
16479 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
16480 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
16481 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
16483 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
16484 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
16485 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
16486 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16489 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
16490 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
16491 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
16492 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
16493 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
16494 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
16495 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
16496 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
16497 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
16498 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
16499 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
16500 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
16501 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
16502 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
16503 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
16504 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
16505 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
16506 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
16507 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
16510 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
16511 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
16512 based on the time during which we were active and not in
16513 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
16514 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
16515 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
16516 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
16517 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16519 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
16520 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
16521 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
16522 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
16523 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
16524 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
16525 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
16526 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
16527 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
16528 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16531 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
16532 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
16533 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
16534 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
16536 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
16537 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
16538 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
16539 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
16540 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
16541 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
16542 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
16543 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
16544 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
16545 the longest-lived bug prize.
16546 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
16547 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
16548 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
16549 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
16550 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
16551 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
16553 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
16554 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
16555 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
16556 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
16557 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
16558 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
16562 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16563 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
16564 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
16565 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
16566 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
16567 got suppressed since the last warning.
16568 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
16569 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
16570 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
16571 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
16572 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
16573 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
16574 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
16575 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
16576 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
16577 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
16578 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
16579 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
16580 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
16581 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
16582 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
16583 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
16584 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
16585 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
16586 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
16588 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
16589 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
16590 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
16592 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
16593 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
16594 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
16595 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
16596 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
16597 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
16598 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
16599 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
16600 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
16601 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
16602 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
16603 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
16604 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
16605 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
16606 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
16608 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
16609 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
16610 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
16611 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
16612 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
16613 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16614 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
16616 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
16617 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
16618 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
16619 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
16620 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
16623 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
16624 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
16625 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
16626 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
16627 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
16628 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
16629 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
16630 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
16631 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
16632 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
16633 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
16634 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
16635 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
16636 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
16637 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
16638 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
16639 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
16640 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
16643 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
16646 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
16647 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
16648 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
16649 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
16650 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
16654 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
16655 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
16656 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
16657 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
16658 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
16659 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
16660 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
16661 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
16662 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
16663 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
16664 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
16665 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
16666 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
16667 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
16668 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
16669 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
16670 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
16673 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
16674 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
16675 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
16676 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
16677 they first get the Guard flag.
16678 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
16682 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16683 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
16684 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
16685 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
16686 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
16687 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
16688 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
16689 Patch from mingw-san.
16690 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
16691 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
16693 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
16694 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
16695 Implements enhancement 1790.
16697 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
16698 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
16699 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
16700 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
16701 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
16702 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
16703 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
16704 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
16705 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
16706 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
16707 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
16708 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
16709 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
16710 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
16711 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
16712 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
16713 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
16714 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
16715 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
16716 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
16718 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
16719 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
16720 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
16721 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
16722 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
16723 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
16724 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
16725 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
16726 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
16727 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
16728 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
16729 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
16730 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
16732 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
16733 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
16734 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
16735 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
16736 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
16737 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
16740 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
16741 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
16742 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
16743 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
16744 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
16745 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
16746 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16747 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
16748 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
16749 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
16750 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
16752 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
16753 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
16754 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
16755 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
16756 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
16757 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
16758 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
16760 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
16762 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
16763 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
16764 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
16765 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
16766 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
16767 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
16769 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16770 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
16771 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
16772 structures and defines in or.h for now.
16773 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
16774 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
16775 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
16776 statistics code to be more easily tested.
16777 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
16778 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
16779 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
16782 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
16783 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
16784 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
16785 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
16786 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
16787 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
16791 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
16792 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
16793 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
16794 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
16795 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
16796 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
16797 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
16798 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
16799 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
16800 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
16801 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
16802 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
16803 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
16805 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
16806 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
16807 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
16808 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
16809 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
16810 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
16811 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
16812 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
16813 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
16814 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
16815 can be controlled by the consensus.
16818 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
16819 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
16820 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
16821 more accurate data for many African countries.
16822 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
16823 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
16824 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
16825 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
16826 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
16827 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
16828 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
16829 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
16830 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
16831 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
16832 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
16833 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
16835 o New directory authorities:
16836 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
16840 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
16841 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
16842 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
16843 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
16844 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
16845 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
16846 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
16847 what should go in a patch.
16848 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
16849 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
16850 over our stored history.
16851 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
16852 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
16853 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
16854 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
16855 file. Fixes bug 1296.
16856 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
16857 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
16858 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
16862 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
16864 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
16865 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
16866 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
16867 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
16868 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
16869 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
16870 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
16871 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
16872 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
16873 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
16874 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
16875 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16876 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
16877 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
16878 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
16879 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
16880 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
16881 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
16882 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
16883 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
16884 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
16885 two-hop circuits are actually created.
16886 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
16887 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16888 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
16889 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16892 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
16893 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
16894 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
16895 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
16896 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
16898 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
16899 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
16902 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
16903 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
16904 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
16905 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
16906 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
16907 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
16908 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
16909 their directory fetches over TLS).
16910 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
16911 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
16912 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
16913 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
16914 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
16915 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
16916 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
16917 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
16920 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
16921 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
16925 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
16926 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16927 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
16928 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
16929 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
16930 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
16931 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16934 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
16935 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
16936 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
16937 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
16938 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
16941 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
16942 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
16943 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
16944 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
16945 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
16946 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
16947 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
16948 their directory fetches over TLS).
16951 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
16952 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
16954 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
16955 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
16956 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
16957 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
16958 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
16959 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
16960 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
16961 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
16962 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
16963 hour of their uptime.
16966 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
16967 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
16968 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
16972 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
16973 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
16974 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
16975 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
16976 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
16977 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
16979 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
16980 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
16981 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
16983 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
16984 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
16988 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
16989 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
16990 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
16994 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
16995 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
16996 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
16999 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
17000 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
17001 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
17002 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
17003 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
17004 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
17005 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
17006 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
17007 about the option without breaking older ones.
17008 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
17009 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
17010 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
17011 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
17014 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
17015 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
17016 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
17017 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
17019 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
17020 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
17021 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
17024 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
17025 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
17027 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
17028 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
17029 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
17030 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
17031 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
17032 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
17033 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17034 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
17035 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
17036 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
17037 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
17040 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
17041 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17042 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
17043 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
17044 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
17045 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
17046 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17049 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
17050 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
17051 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
17052 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
17053 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
17054 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
17057 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
17058 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
17059 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
17060 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
17062 o Major features (performance):
17063 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
17064 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
17065 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
17066 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
17067 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
17068 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
17069 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
17071 o Minor features (performance):
17072 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
17073 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
17074 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
17075 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
17076 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
17080 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
17081 speeds up the build considerably.
17083 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
17084 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
17085 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17086 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
17087 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17088 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
17089 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
17090 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17092 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
17093 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
17094 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
17096 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
17097 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
17098 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
17099 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
17101 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17102 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
17103 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
17104 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
17105 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
17106 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
17109 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
17110 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
17111 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
17113 o Directory authority changes:
17114 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
17115 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
17116 service directory authority) from the list.
17119 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
17120 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
17121 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
17122 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
17123 libraries in a security patch.
17124 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
17125 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
17126 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
17127 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
17129 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
17130 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
17131 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
17132 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
17133 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
17134 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
17135 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
17138 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
17139 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
17140 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
17141 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
17142 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
17143 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
17144 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
17145 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
17146 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
17147 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
17148 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
17149 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
17150 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
17152 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
17153 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
17154 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
17155 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
17156 control-spec.txt said they were.
17157 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
17158 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
17159 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
17160 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
17161 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17163 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17164 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
17165 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
17166 produce nicer HTML.
17167 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
17168 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
17169 iPhone SDK versions.
17170 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
17171 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
17172 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
17173 projects directory in svn.
17174 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
17175 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
17176 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
17177 high latency links.
17180 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
17181 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
17182 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
17184 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
17185 to the circuit build timeout.
17186 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
17187 arguments we do not recognize.
17188 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
17189 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
17190 open() without checking it.
17193 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
17194 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
17195 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
17196 several minor potential security bugs.
17199 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
17200 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
17201 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
17202 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
17203 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
17204 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
17205 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
17208 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
17209 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
17211 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
17212 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
17213 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
17214 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
17218 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
17219 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
17223 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
17224 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
17225 customized patches to run/build.
17228 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
17229 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
17230 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
17233 o Major bugfixes (performance):
17234 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
17235 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
17236 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
17237 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
17238 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
17239 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
17240 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
17243 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
17244 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
17245 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
17246 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
17247 libraries in a security patch.
17248 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
17249 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
17250 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
17251 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
17254 o Directory authority changes:
17255 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
17256 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
17257 service directory authority) from the list.
17260 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
17261 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
17264 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
17265 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
17266 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
17267 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
17268 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
17271 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
17272 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
17273 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
17277 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
17278 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
17279 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
17280 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
17281 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17284 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
17285 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
17286 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
17290 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
17291 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
17292 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
17293 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
17294 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
17296 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
17297 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
17299 o Directory authority changes:
17300 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
17303 o Major features (performance):
17304 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
17305 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
17306 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
17307 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
17308 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
17309 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
17310 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
17311 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
17312 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
17313 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
17314 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
17315 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
17316 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
17318 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
17319 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
17320 but never per-conn write limits.
17321 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
17322 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
17323 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
17324 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
17326 o Major features (relay selection options):
17327 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
17328 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
17329 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
17330 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
17331 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
17332 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
17333 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
17335 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
17336 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
17338 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
17339 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
17340 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
17341 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
17342 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
17343 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
17344 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
17345 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
17346 the network changes.
17349 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
17350 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
17351 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17354 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
17355 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
17356 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
17357 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
17358 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
17359 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
17360 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
17361 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
17362 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
17363 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
17364 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
17365 generated while acting as a relay.
17366 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
17367 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
17368 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
17369 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
17370 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
17371 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
17373 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
17374 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
17375 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17376 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
17377 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
17378 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
17381 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
17382 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
17383 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
17385 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
17386 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
17387 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
17389 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
17390 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
17392 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
17393 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
17394 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
17396 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
17397 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
17400 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17401 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
17402 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
17403 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
17404 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
17405 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
17406 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
17407 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
17408 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
17410 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
17413 o Removed features:
17414 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
17415 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
17416 hidden service usage.
17419 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
17420 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
17421 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
17422 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
17423 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
17425 o Directory authority changes:
17426 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
17430 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
17431 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
17432 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17435 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
17436 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
17437 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
17438 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
17439 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
17442 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
17443 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
17444 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
17445 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
17446 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
17447 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
17448 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
17451 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
17452 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
17453 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17454 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
17455 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
17456 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
17458 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
17459 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
17462 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
17463 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
17464 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
17465 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
17466 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
17467 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
17470 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
17471 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
17472 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
17474 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
17475 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
17476 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
17477 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
17478 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
17479 download consensus + microdescriptors".
17480 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
17481 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
17482 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
17483 hash algorithm in the future.
17484 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
17485 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
17486 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
17487 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
17488 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
17489 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
17490 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
17491 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
17492 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
17495 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
17496 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
17497 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
17498 won't work unless we say we are.
17501 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
17502 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
17503 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
17504 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
17505 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
17506 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
17507 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
17508 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
17509 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17510 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
17511 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
17512 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
17513 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
17514 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
17515 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
17516 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
17517 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
17518 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
17519 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
17520 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
17521 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
17522 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
17525 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
17526 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
17527 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
17528 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
17530 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
17531 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
17533 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
17534 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
17535 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
17536 in the Vidalia Settings window.
17539 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
17540 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
17541 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
17542 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
17543 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
17545 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
17546 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
17548 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
17549 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
17550 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
17553 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
17554 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
17555 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
17557 o New directory authorities:
17558 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
17560 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
17563 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
17564 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
17566 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
17567 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
17568 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17569 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
17570 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
17571 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
17572 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17573 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
17574 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
17575 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
17576 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
17577 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
17578 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
17579 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
17580 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
17581 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
17582 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
17584 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
17585 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
17586 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
17588 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
17589 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
17593 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
17594 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
17595 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
17596 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
17597 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
17600 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
17601 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17604 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17606 o Directory authorities:
17607 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
17611 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
17612 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
17613 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
17614 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
17615 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
17618 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
17619 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
17620 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
17621 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
17623 o New directory authorities:
17624 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
17627 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
17628 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
17629 SSL handshake issues.
17630 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
17631 during the TLS handshake.
17632 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
17633 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
17634 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
17635 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
17636 none of which are very big.
17639 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
17641 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
17642 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17643 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
17644 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
17645 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17646 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
17647 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
17648 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
17651 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17652 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
17653 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
17654 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
17655 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
17658 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
17659 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17662 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
17663 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
17666 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
17667 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
17668 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17671 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
17672 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
17673 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
17674 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
17675 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
17676 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
17679 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
17680 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
17681 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
17682 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
17683 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
17684 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
17685 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
17686 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
17687 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
17688 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
17689 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
17690 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
17691 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
17692 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
17693 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
17694 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
17695 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
17696 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
17699 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
17700 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
17704 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
17705 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
17706 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17707 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
17708 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
17709 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
17710 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17711 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
17712 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
17713 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
17714 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17715 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
17716 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
17717 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
17718 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
17719 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
17720 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
17721 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
17722 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
17723 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
17724 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
17726 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
17727 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
17728 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
17729 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17730 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
17731 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
17733 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
17734 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
17735 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
17738 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
17739 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
17740 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
17741 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
17742 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
17743 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
17746 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
17747 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
17748 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
17749 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
17750 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
17753 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
17754 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
17755 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
17758 o New directory authorities:
17759 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
17763 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
17764 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
17765 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
17766 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
17767 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
17770 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
17771 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
17772 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
17773 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
17774 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
17777 o New options for gathering stats safely:
17778 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
17779 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
17780 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
17781 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
17782 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
17783 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
17784 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
17785 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
17786 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
17788 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
17789 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
17790 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
17791 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
17793 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
17794 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
17795 their extra-info documents.
17798 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
17799 source files Tor was built with.
17800 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
17801 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
17802 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
17803 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
17804 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
17805 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
17807 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
17808 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
17809 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
17810 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
17811 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
17813 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
17814 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
17817 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
17818 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
17819 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
17820 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
17821 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
17823 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
17824 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
17826 o Deprecated and removed features:
17827 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
17828 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
17829 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
17830 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
17831 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
17832 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
17833 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
17834 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
17836 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
17837 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
17838 via application-level web tricks.
17840 o Packaging changes:
17841 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
17842 installer bundles. See
17843 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
17844 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
17845 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
17846 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
17847 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
17848 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
17849 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
17850 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
17851 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
17852 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
17853 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
17854 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
17857 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
17858 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
17859 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
17862 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
17863 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
17864 part of patch provided by "optimist".
17867 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
17868 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
17869 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
17870 and confuse fewer users.
17873 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
17874 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
17875 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
17876 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
17877 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
17878 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
17879 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
17882 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
17883 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
17884 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
17885 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
17886 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
17887 other features and bug fixes.
17890 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
17893 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
17894 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
17895 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
17896 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
17897 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
17900 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
17901 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
17902 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
17903 failure message (oops).
17906 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
17907 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
17908 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
17909 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
17913 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
17914 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
17915 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
17916 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
17917 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
17918 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
17919 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
17920 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
17921 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
17922 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
17923 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
17924 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
17925 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
17926 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
17927 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
17930 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
17931 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17932 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
17933 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
17934 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
17935 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
17936 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
17937 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
17938 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
17939 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
17940 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
17941 Workaround for bug 1024.
17942 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
17946 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
17947 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
17948 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
17951 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
17953 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
17954 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
17955 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
17956 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
17957 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
17960 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
17961 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
17962 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
17963 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
17964 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
17965 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
17966 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
17967 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
17968 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
17969 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
17972 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
17973 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
17974 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
17975 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
17976 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
17977 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
17978 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
17979 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
17982 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
17983 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
17984 a bunch of minor bugs.
17987 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
17988 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
17989 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
17991 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
17992 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
17993 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
17994 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
17996 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
18000 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
18001 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
18002 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
18004 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
18005 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
18007 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
18008 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
18010 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
18011 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
18012 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
18013 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
18014 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
18015 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
18016 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
18017 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
18019 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
18020 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
18021 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
18023 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
18024 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
18025 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
18026 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
18027 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
18031 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
18032 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
18033 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
18034 of more minor bugs.
18036 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
18037 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
18038 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
18039 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
18041 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
18042 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
18043 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
18044 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18045 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
18046 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
18047 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
18048 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
18049 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
18050 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
18051 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
18052 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18053 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
18054 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
18055 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
18056 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
18057 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
18059 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
18060 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
18061 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
18062 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18064 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
18065 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
18066 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18069 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
18070 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
18071 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
18072 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
18073 addresses to fall out of the directory.
18076 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
18077 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
18078 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
18079 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
18081 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
18082 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
18083 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
18084 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
18085 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
18086 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
18087 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
18088 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
18089 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
18090 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
18091 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
18092 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
18093 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
18094 patch by Sebastian.
18095 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
18096 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
18099 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
18100 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
18101 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
18102 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
18103 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
18104 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
18106 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
18107 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
18108 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
18109 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
18110 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
18112 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
18115 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
18116 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
18118 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
18119 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
18120 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18121 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18122 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
18123 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
18125 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
18126 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18127 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
18128 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
18129 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
18130 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18131 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
18132 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
18133 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
18134 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
18135 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
18136 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
18140 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
18141 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
18142 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
18145 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
18146 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
18147 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18149 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
18150 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
18151 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
18152 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
18153 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
18154 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
18155 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
18156 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
18157 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
18158 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
18159 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
18160 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18161 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
18162 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
18163 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18164 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
18165 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
18166 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
18167 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
18168 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
18169 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
18170 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
18171 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
18172 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
18173 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
18174 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
18176 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
18177 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
18178 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
18179 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
18180 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
18181 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
18182 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
18183 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
18184 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
18185 of 0. Suggested by lark.
18187 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
18188 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
18189 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
18190 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
18191 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18194 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
18196 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
18197 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
18198 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
18199 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
18202 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
18203 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
18204 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
18205 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
18206 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
18208 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
18209 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
18210 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
18211 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
18214 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
18215 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18216 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
18217 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
18218 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
18219 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
18220 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
18221 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
18224 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
18225 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
18226 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
18227 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
18230 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
18231 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
18232 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
18233 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
18234 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
18235 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
18238 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
18239 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18240 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
18241 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
18242 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
18243 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18246 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
18247 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
18248 reported by Matt Edman.
18249 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
18251 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
18252 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
18253 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
18254 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
18256 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
18257 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18258 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
18259 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18260 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
18261 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
18262 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
18263 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
18264 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
18265 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
18266 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
18267 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
18268 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
18269 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18270 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
18271 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18272 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
18273 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
18274 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
18277 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
18278 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
18279 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
18280 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
18283 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
18284 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
18285 the letter of C99's alias rules.
18288 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
18289 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
18290 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
18291 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
18293 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
18294 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
18295 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
18298 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
18299 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
18302 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
18303 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
18304 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
18305 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
18306 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
18307 reported by "wood".
18308 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
18309 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
18310 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
18311 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
18312 identify a connection.
18313 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
18314 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
18315 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
18316 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
18317 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
18318 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
18319 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18320 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
18321 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
18322 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
18324 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
18325 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
18326 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
18327 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
18328 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
18329 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
18330 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
18333 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
18334 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
18336 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
18337 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
18338 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
18339 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
18340 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
18341 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
18342 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18343 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
18345 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
18346 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
18347 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
18348 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
18349 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
18350 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
18351 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
18352 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
18353 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
18354 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
18355 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
18356 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
18357 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
18358 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
18359 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18360 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
18361 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
18362 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18363 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
18364 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
18365 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
18366 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
18367 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
18368 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
18369 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
18370 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
18371 840. Patch from rovv.
18372 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
18373 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
18374 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
18376 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
18377 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
18378 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
18379 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
18380 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
18381 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
18382 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18384 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18385 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
18386 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
18389 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
18390 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
18392 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
18393 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
18394 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
18395 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
18396 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
18397 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
18398 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
18399 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
18400 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
18402 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
18404 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
18405 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
18409 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
18410 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
18411 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
18412 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
18413 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
18414 have had some time to upgrade.)
18417 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
18418 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
18421 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
18422 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
18423 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
18424 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
18425 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
18428 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
18429 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
18431 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
18432 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18433 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
18434 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
18435 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
18436 entirely. Patch from coderman.
18439 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
18440 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18441 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
18442 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
18443 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
18444 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18445 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
18449 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
18450 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
18451 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
18452 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
18453 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
18454 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
18455 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
18458 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
18459 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
18460 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
18461 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
18462 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
18464 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
18465 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
18466 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
18467 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
18468 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
18469 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
18470 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18471 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
18472 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
18473 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
18477 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
18478 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
18479 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
18481 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
18482 without support for deprecated functions.
18483 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
18485 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
18486 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
18487 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
18488 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
18489 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18490 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
18491 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
18492 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
18493 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
18494 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
18495 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
18496 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
18497 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
18498 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
18499 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
18500 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
18501 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
18502 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
18503 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
18504 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
18505 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18506 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
18507 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
18509 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
18510 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
18511 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
18512 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
18513 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
18514 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
18516 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
18517 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
18518 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
18519 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
18520 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
18522 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
18523 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
18524 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
18526 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
18527 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
18530 o Deprecated and removed features:
18531 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
18532 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
18533 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
18536 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18537 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
18538 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
18539 with log.h on Android.
18540 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
18541 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
18544 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
18545 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
18547 o New directory authorities:
18548 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
18552 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
18553 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
18554 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
18555 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
18556 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
18557 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18560 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
18561 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
18562 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
18563 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
18564 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
18565 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
18566 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
18567 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
18568 reported by "wood".
18569 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
18570 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
18571 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
18572 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
18575 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
18576 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
18578 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
18579 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
18580 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
18581 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
18582 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
18583 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
18584 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
18585 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
18586 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
18587 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
18588 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
18589 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
18590 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
18591 Implements proposal 148.
18592 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
18593 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
18594 system to do it for us.
18595 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
18596 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
18597 this fix will be slightly helpful.
18598 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
18599 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
18600 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
18601 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
18602 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
18603 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
18604 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
18605 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
18606 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
18609 o Minor features (controller):
18610 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
18611 been fetched and validated.
18612 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
18613 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
18614 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
18615 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
18616 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
18617 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
18620 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
18621 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18622 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
18623 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
18624 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
18626 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
18627 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
18628 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18629 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
18630 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
18631 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
18632 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
18633 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
18634 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
18636 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18637 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
18638 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
18639 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
18640 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
18641 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
18642 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
18643 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
18645 o Deprecated and removed features:
18646 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
18648 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
18649 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
18650 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
18652 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18653 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
18654 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
18656 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
18657 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
18658 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
18659 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
18660 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
18661 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
18664 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
18665 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
18666 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
18667 fixes a variety of other issues.
18670 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
18671 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
18672 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
18673 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
18676 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
18677 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
18678 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
18679 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18682 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
18683 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
18684 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
18688 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
18690 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
18691 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
18692 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
18693 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
18694 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
18695 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
18696 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
18698 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
18699 rest, and don't automatically fail.
18700 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
18701 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18702 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
18703 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
18705 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
18706 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
18707 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
18708 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
18709 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
18710 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
18711 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
18712 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
18713 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
18714 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
18716 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
18720 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
18721 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
18722 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
18724 o Minor features (controller):
18725 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
18729 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
18730 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
18731 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
18732 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
18733 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
18734 variety of other issues.
18737 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
18738 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
18739 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
18740 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
18741 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
18742 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
18743 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
18744 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
18745 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
18746 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
18747 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
18748 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
18751 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
18752 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
18754 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18755 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
18756 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
18757 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
18758 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
18759 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
18760 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18761 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
18762 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
18763 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
18764 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
18765 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
18766 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
18767 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
18768 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
18772 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
18773 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
18774 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
18775 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
18776 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
18777 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
18778 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
18779 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
18780 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
18781 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
18782 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
18783 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
18784 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
18785 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
18786 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
18787 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
18788 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
18789 list. It has been gone for many months.
18790 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
18791 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
18792 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
18795 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18796 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
18797 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
18800 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
18801 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
18802 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
18803 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
18804 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
18805 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
18806 variety of other issues.
18809 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
18810 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
18811 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
18812 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
18813 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
18814 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
18815 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
18816 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
18817 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
18818 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
18819 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
18820 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
18821 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
18822 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
18825 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
18826 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
18827 Suggested by Lucky Green.
18828 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
18829 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
18830 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
18831 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
18832 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
18833 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
18835 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
18836 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
18838 o Hidden service performance improvements:
18839 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
18840 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
18841 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
18842 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
18843 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
18844 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
18845 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
18846 faster after restart.
18849 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
18850 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
18851 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
18852 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
18853 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
18854 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
18855 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
18856 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
18857 840. Patch from rovv.
18858 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
18859 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
18860 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
18861 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
18862 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
18863 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
18864 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
18865 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
18866 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
18868 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
18869 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
18870 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
18871 have already been marked for close.
18872 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
18873 introduction points.
18874 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
18875 memory performance during directory parsing.
18876 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
18877 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
18878 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
18879 because of a pending download.
18882 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
18883 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
18884 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
18885 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
18888 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
18889 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
18890 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
18891 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
18892 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
18893 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
18894 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
18895 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
18896 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
18897 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
18898 lookups more reliable.
18899 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
18900 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
18901 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
18902 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
18903 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
18904 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
18905 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
18908 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
18909 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
18910 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18911 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
18912 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
18913 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
18914 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
18915 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
18916 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
18917 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
18918 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
18920 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
18921 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
18922 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
18923 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
18924 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
18925 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18926 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
18927 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
18928 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18931 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
18932 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
18933 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
18934 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
18935 locked down these days.
18936 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
18937 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
18938 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
18939 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
18940 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
18942 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
18943 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
18944 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
18945 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
18946 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
18947 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
18948 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
18949 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
18950 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
18951 people find host:port too confusing.
18952 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
18953 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
18954 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
18957 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18959 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
18960 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
18961 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
18962 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
18963 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
18965 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
18966 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
18967 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
18968 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
18969 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
18970 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
18971 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
18972 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
18973 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
18974 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
18975 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
18976 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
18978 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
18979 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
18980 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
18981 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
18982 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
18983 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
18984 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18985 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
18986 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
18988 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
18989 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
18990 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
18991 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
18992 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
18993 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18994 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
18995 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
18996 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
18997 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
18998 bug 820, reported by seeess.
18999 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
19000 list. It has been gone for many months.
19002 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19003 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
19004 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
19005 actual mistakes we're making here.
19006 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
19007 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
19008 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
19009 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
19012 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
19013 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
19014 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
19015 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
19018 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
19019 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
19020 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
19021 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
19022 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
19023 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
19025 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
19026 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
19027 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
19028 pointed out by rovv.
19031 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
19032 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19033 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
19034 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19035 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
19036 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
19037 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
19038 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
19039 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
19040 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19041 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
19042 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
19043 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
19044 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19045 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
19046 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
19047 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
19048 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
19049 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
19050 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
19051 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
19054 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
19055 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
19056 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
19057 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
19058 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
19059 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
19060 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
19063 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
19065 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
19066 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
19067 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
19068 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
19069 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
19070 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
19071 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
19073 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
19074 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
19075 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
19076 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
19077 known descriptor before building circuits.
19079 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
19080 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
19081 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
19082 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
19083 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
19084 identify a connection.
19085 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
19086 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
19087 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
19089 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
19090 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
19091 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
19092 pointed out by rovv.
19095 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
19096 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19097 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
19098 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
19099 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
19100 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19101 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
19102 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19103 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
19104 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
19105 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
19106 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
19107 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
19108 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
19109 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19112 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
19113 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
19114 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
19115 answer sections match.
19116 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
19117 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
19120 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
19121 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19124 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
19125 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
19126 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
19128 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
19129 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
19130 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19133 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
19134 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
19135 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
19136 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
19139 o Removed features:
19140 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
19141 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
19144 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
19145 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
19146 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
19147 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
19148 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
19149 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
19151 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
19152 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
19153 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
19156 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
19157 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
19158 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
19159 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
19160 be sent using an "early" cell.
19163 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
19164 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
19165 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
19166 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
19167 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
19168 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
19169 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
19172 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
19173 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
19174 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
19175 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
19176 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
19177 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
19178 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
19179 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
19180 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
19181 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
19182 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
19183 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
19184 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
19185 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
19186 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
19187 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
19190 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
19191 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
19192 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
19193 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
19194 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
19195 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
19196 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
19197 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
19198 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
19200 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
19201 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
19202 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
19203 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
19204 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
19207 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19208 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
19209 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
19210 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
19212 o Removed features:
19213 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
19214 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
19218 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
19220 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
19221 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
19222 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
19225 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
19226 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
19227 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
19230 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
19231 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
19232 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
19233 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
19234 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19235 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
19236 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
19237 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
19238 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19239 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
19240 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
19241 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
19242 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19243 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
19244 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
19245 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
19246 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
19247 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
19248 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
19249 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
19250 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
19251 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
19252 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
19255 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
19256 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
19258 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
19259 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
19260 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
19261 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
19262 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
19263 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
19264 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
19266 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
19267 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
19268 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
19269 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
19270 found by Geoff Goodell.
19273 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
19274 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
19275 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
19276 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
19277 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
19278 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
19281 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
19282 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
19283 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
19286 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
19287 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
19288 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
19289 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
19290 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19291 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
19292 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
19293 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
19294 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19295 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
19296 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
19297 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
19298 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
19299 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
19302 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
19303 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
19304 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
19306 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
19307 fingerprints with or without space.
19308 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
19309 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
19310 partway through and wants to catch up.
19311 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
19312 state to start out in.
19315 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
19316 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
19317 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19318 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
19319 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
19322 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
19323 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
19324 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
19325 some of the connection attempts fail.
19326 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
19327 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
19328 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
19329 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
19330 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
19331 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
19333 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
19334 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
19335 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
19338 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
19339 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
19340 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
19341 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
19342 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
19343 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
19344 and adds a variety of smaller features.
19347 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
19348 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
19349 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
19350 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
19352 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
19353 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
19354 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
19355 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
19357 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
19358 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
19359 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
19360 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
19361 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
19362 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
19363 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
19366 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
19367 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
19368 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
19369 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
19370 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
19372 o Memory fixes and improvements:
19373 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
19374 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
19375 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
19376 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
19377 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
19378 on a typical directory cache.
19379 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
19380 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
19381 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
19382 and may reduce fragmentation.
19383 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
19384 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
19385 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
19387 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
19388 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
19389 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
19391 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
19392 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
19396 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
19397 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
19398 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
19399 done that for a long time.
19400 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
19401 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
19402 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
19403 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
19406 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
19407 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
19408 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
19409 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
19410 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
19411 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
19413 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
19414 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
19415 output to messages of warning and error severity.
19416 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
19417 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
19418 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
19419 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
19420 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
19421 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
19422 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
19423 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
19424 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
19425 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
19426 directory requests we should expect to see.
19427 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
19429 - Lots of new unit tests.
19430 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
19431 two parallel lists in lockstep.
19434 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
19435 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
19436 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
19439 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
19440 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
19441 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
19442 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
19443 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
19444 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
19445 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
19448 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
19449 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
19450 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
19454 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
19455 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
19456 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
19459 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
19460 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
19461 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
19463 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
19464 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
19466 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
19467 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
19468 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
19469 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
19470 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19471 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
19472 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
19474 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
19475 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
19476 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
19477 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
19478 - Fix compile on Windows.
19481 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
19482 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
19483 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
19484 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
19485 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
19486 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
19487 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
19490 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
19491 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
19494 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
19495 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
19496 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
19497 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
19499 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
19500 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
19501 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
19504 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
19505 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
19506 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
19507 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
19511 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
19512 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
19513 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
19514 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
19516 o Major security fixes:
19517 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
19518 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
19519 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
19520 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
19521 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
19524 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
19525 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19528 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
19529 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
19532 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
19533 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
19536 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
19537 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
19538 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
19541 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
19542 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19545 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
19546 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
19547 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
19548 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
19549 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
19551 o New directory authorities:
19552 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
19553 it has been down for months.
19554 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
19558 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
19559 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
19561 o Minor features (security):
19562 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
19563 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
19564 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
19567 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
19568 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
19569 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
19570 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
19571 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
19572 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
19573 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
19574 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
19575 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19577 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
19578 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
19579 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19580 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
19581 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
19582 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
19583 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19584 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
19585 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
19587 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19588 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
19589 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
19590 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
19591 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
19592 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
19593 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
19594 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
19595 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
19596 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
19597 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19598 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
19599 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
19600 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
19601 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
19602 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
19603 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
19604 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
19605 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
19608 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
19609 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
19610 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
19611 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
19614 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
19615 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
19616 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
19617 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
19620 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
19621 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
19622 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
19623 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
19624 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
19627 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
19628 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
19629 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
19630 certain censored countries by default again.
19633 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
19634 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19635 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
19636 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
19637 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19638 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
19639 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
19640 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
19642 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
19643 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
19644 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
19645 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
19646 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
19647 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
19648 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
19649 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
19650 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
19651 a directory. Fix from lodger.
19653 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
19654 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
19655 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
19656 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
19657 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
19658 RelayBandwidth* values.
19659 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
19660 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
19661 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
19662 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
19663 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
19664 get_interface_address6().
19665 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
19666 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
19667 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
19669 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
19670 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
19671 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
19672 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19673 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
19674 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
19675 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19676 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
19677 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
19678 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19681 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
19682 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
19683 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
19686 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
19687 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
19688 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
19689 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
19690 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
19693 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
19694 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
19695 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
19696 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
19697 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
19698 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
19699 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
19700 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
19701 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
19704 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
19705 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
19706 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
19707 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19710 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
19711 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
19712 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
19713 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
19714 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
19715 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
19716 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
19719 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
19720 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
19721 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
19722 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
19723 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
19724 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
19725 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
19727 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
19728 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
19729 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
19730 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
19731 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
19734 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
19735 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
19736 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
19737 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
19738 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
19739 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
19740 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19741 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
19742 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
19743 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
19744 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
19745 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
19746 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
19747 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
19748 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
19749 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19750 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
19751 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19752 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19753 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
19754 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
19755 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
19756 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
19757 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
19758 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
19759 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
19761 o Minor features (performance):
19762 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
19764 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
19765 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
19766 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
19767 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
19768 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
19769 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
19770 non-system include paths.
19771 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
19772 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
19775 o Minor features (other):
19776 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
19778 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
19779 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
19780 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
19783 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
19784 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
19785 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
19786 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
19788 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
19789 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
19790 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
19791 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
19792 Should fix bug 537.
19793 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
19794 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
19795 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19796 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
19797 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19799 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19800 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
19801 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
19802 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
19803 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
19804 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
19805 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
19806 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
19807 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
19808 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
19809 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
19810 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
19811 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
19812 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
19813 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
19814 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19815 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
19816 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
19817 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
19818 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
19819 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
19820 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
19821 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
19822 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
19823 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
19826 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19827 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
19828 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
19832 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
19833 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
19834 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
19835 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
19836 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
19839 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
19840 Tor's x509 certificates.
19843 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
19844 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
19845 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19846 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
19847 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
19848 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19850 o Minor features (security):
19851 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
19852 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
19854 o Minor features (directory authority):
19855 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
19856 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
19857 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
19858 bandwidthburst values.
19860 o Minor features (controller):
19861 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
19862 processes from running us out of memory.
19864 o Minor features (misc):
19865 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
19866 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
19867 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
19868 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
19870 o Deprecated features (controller):
19871 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
19872 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
19873 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
19876 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
19877 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
19879 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
19880 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
19881 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19882 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
19883 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
19884 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19885 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
19886 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
19888 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
19889 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19890 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
19891 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19892 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
19893 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
19894 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
19895 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
19897 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
19898 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
19899 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
19900 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
19901 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
19902 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
19903 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19904 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
19905 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19906 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
19907 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
19908 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
19910 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19911 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
19913 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
19914 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
19915 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
19916 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
19917 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
19918 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
19921 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
19922 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
19923 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
19924 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
19925 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
19927 o New directory authorities:
19928 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
19932 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
19933 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
19934 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
19935 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
19936 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
19937 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
19938 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
19939 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
19943 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
19944 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
19945 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
19946 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
19947 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
19948 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
19949 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
19950 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
19951 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
19952 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
19955 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
19956 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
19957 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
19958 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
19962 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
19963 the request isn't encrypted.
19964 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
19965 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
19966 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
19967 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
19968 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
19971 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
19972 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
19975 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
19978 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
19979 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
19980 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
19982 o New directory authorities:
19983 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
19986 o Major performance improvements:
19987 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
19988 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
19989 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
19990 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
19991 memory fragmentation.
19994 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
19995 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
19996 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
19997 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
19998 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
19999 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
20000 bodies when they receive them.
20001 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
20002 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
20003 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
20005 o Minor performance improvements:
20006 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
20007 of them were actually distinct.
20008 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
20009 interested in a given message.
20012 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
20013 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
20014 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
20015 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
20016 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
20017 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
20018 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
20019 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
20020 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
20021 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
20022 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
20024 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
20025 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
20026 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
20027 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
20028 this country" and "1 person from this country".
20029 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
20030 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
20031 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
20032 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
20033 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
20035 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
20036 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
20037 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
20039 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
20040 but client versions are not.
20041 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
20042 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
20044 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
20045 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
20046 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
20047 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
20048 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
20050 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
20051 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
20052 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
20055 o Minor features (controller):
20056 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
20057 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
20058 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
20059 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
20061 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20062 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
20063 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
20064 running a test network on a single host.
20065 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
20066 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
20068 o Minor features (bridges):
20069 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
20070 unencrypted connections.
20072 o Minor features (other):
20073 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
20074 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
20075 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
20076 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
20079 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
20080 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
20081 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
20082 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
20085 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
20086 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
20087 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
20088 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
20089 on network address.
20092 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
20093 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
20094 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
20095 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
20096 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
20097 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
20098 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
20099 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
20100 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
20101 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
20102 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
20103 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
20106 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
20107 rebuild our server descriptor.
20108 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
20109 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
20110 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
20111 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
20112 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
20113 nonstandard integer types.
20114 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
20115 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
20116 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
20117 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
20118 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
20120 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
20121 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
20122 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
20123 when they receive them.
20124 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
20125 This includes some 64-bit systems.
20126 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
20127 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
20128 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
20129 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
20130 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
20131 router_get_by_hexdigest().
20132 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
20133 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
20137 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
20138 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
20139 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20142 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
20143 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
20144 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
20145 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
20146 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
20147 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
20148 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
20149 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20152 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
20153 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
20154 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
20155 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
20157 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
20158 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
20161 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
20162 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
20165 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
20167 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
20168 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
20170 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
20171 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
20172 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
20173 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20174 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
20175 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
20176 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
20177 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20178 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
20179 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
20183 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
20184 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
20185 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
20188 - Make the unit tests build again.
20189 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
20190 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
20191 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
20192 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
20193 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
20194 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20195 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
20196 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
20197 the next one as a duplicate.
20200 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
20201 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
20202 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
20203 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
20206 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
20207 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
20208 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
20211 o New directory authorities:
20212 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
20216 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
20217 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
20218 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
20219 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
20220 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
20221 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
20222 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
20224 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
20225 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
20227 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
20228 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
20229 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
20230 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
20231 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
20232 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
20234 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
20235 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
20236 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20237 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
20238 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
20239 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20242 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
20243 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
20244 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
20245 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
20246 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
20247 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
20248 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
20249 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
20250 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
20251 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
20252 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
20253 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
20254 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
20255 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
20256 where Tor is blocked.
20257 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
20258 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
20259 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
20260 to a file periodically.
20261 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
20262 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
20263 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
20267 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
20268 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
20269 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
20270 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
20271 in the relevant networkstatus document.
20272 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
20273 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
20274 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20275 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
20276 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
20277 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
20278 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
20279 by Karsten Loesing.
20280 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
20281 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
20282 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
20283 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
20284 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
20285 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20286 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
20287 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
20288 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
20289 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20290 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
20291 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
20292 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
20293 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20294 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
20295 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
20296 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
20297 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
20298 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
20299 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20300 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20301 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
20302 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20303 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
20304 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
20305 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20306 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
20307 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20310 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
20311 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
20312 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
20313 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
20314 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
20315 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
20316 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
20317 even if your DirPort isn't on.
20318 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
20319 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
20320 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
20322 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
20323 multiple controller passwords.
20324 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
20325 router based on the router's purpose.
20326 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
20327 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
20328 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
20329 the approved-routers file.
20332 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
20333 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
20334 well as a few minor bugs.
20337 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
20338 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
20339 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
20341 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
20342 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
20343 rebuild our server descriptor.
20345 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
20346 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
20347 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
20348 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
20349 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
20350 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
20351 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
20352 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
20353 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
20354 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
20356 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
20357 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
20358 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
20359 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
20360 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
20361 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
20362 then be flexible about families.
20365 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
20366 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
20367 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
20371 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
20372 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
20373 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
20374 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
20375 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
20378 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
20379 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
20380 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
20381 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
20382 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20385 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
20386 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
20388 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
20389 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
20390 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
20391 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
20392 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
20393 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
20394 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20396 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
20397 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
20398 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
20399 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
20402 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
20403 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
20406 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
20407 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
20408 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20411 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
20412 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
20413 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
20414 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
20415 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
20416 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
20417 addresses many more minor issues.
20419 o New directory authorities:
20420 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
20423 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
20424 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
20425 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
20426 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
20428 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
20429 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
20430 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
20431 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
20432 and are reaching it.
20433 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
20434 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
20435 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
20436 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
20437 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
20438 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
20441 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
20442 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
20444 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
20445 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
20446 no longer work for clients.
20447 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
20448 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
20450 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
20451 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
20452 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
20453 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
20454 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
20455 enough directory information to build a circuit.
20456 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
20457 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
20458 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
20459 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
20460 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
20461 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
20463 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
20464 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
20465 requests for all of them.
20466 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
20468 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
20469 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
20470 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
20472 o New requirements:
20473 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
20474 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
20478 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
20479 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
20480 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
20481 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
20482 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
20483 networkstatuses that we already have.
20484 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
20485 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
20486 we start knowing some directory caches.
20487 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
20488 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
20489 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
20490 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
20491 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
20492 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
20493 Good in combination with --hash-password.
20494 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
20495 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
20497 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
20498 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
20499 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
20501 o Minor features (bridges):
20502 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
20503 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
20504 back to trying the bridge directly.
20505 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
20506 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
20508 o Minor features (controller):
20509 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
20510 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
20511 report the value as a "minimum skew."
20514 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
20515 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
20519 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
20520 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
20521 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
20522 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
20523 reported by tup and ioerror.
20524 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
20525 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
20527 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
20528 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
20530 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
20531 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
20532 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
20534 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
20535 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20536 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
20537 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20538 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
20539 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20540 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
20542 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
20543 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
20544 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20546 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
20547 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
20548 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
20549 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
20550 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
20553 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
20554 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
20555 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
20556 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
20557 lists for a few hours each day.
20559 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20560 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
20561 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
20562 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
20563 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
20564 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
20565 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
20566 rend_process_relay_cell().
20568 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20569 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
20570 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
20571 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
20572 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
20573 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
20574 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
20575 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
20577 o Major bugfixes (other):
20578 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
20579 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
20580 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
20581 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
20582 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
20583 circuit cannibalization).
20584 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
20585 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
20586 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
20587 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
20588 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
20589 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
20592 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
20593 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
20595 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
20596 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
20597 absent. Resolves bug 467.
20598 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
20599 a way to trigger this remotely.)
20600 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
20601 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
20602 were reporting the dir port.)
20603 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
20604 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
20605 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
20606 the future. Fixes bug 434.
20607 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
20609 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
20610 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
20611 the onion key from getting rotated.
20612 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
20613 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
20614 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
20615 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
20616 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
20617 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
20618 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
20619 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
20620 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
20623 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
20624 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
20625 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
20626 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
20627 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
20628 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
20630 o Major features (directory system):
20631 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
20632 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
20633 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
20634 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
20635 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
20636 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
20637 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
20638 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
20639 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
20640 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
20641 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
20642 Partially implements proposal 122.
20643 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
20644 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
20647 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
20648 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
20649 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
20650 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
20652 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
20653 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
20654 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
20655 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
20656 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
20657 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20658 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
20659 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
20660 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20662 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
20663 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
20665 - Allow certificates to include an address.
20666 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
20667 and download operations.
20668 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
20669 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
20670 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
20671 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
20672 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
20673 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
20675 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
20676 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
20679 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
20680 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
20681 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
20682 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
20684 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
20685 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
20686 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
20688 o Minor features (performance):
20689 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
20690 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
20691 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
20692 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
20693 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
20694 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
20695 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
20698 o Minor features (compilation):
20699 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
20700 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
20702 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
20703 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
20704 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
20705 stick around indefinitely.
20706 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
20708 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
20709 v3 directory authority.
20710 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
20711 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
20713 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
20714 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
20715 "moria on moria:9031."
20716 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
20717 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
20718 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
20719 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
20720 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
20721 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
20722 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
20723 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
20725 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
20726 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
20727 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
20728 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
20729 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
20730 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
20731 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
20732 downloads than for other types.
20734 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
20735 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
20737 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
20738 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
20739 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20741 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20742 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
20743 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20744 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
20745 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
20746 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
20747 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
20748 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
20750 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
20751 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
20752 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
20753 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
20754 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20755 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
20756 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
20757 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20758 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
20759 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
20760 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
20762 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
20763 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
20766 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20767 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
20768 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
20769 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
20770 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
20771 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
20772 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
20773 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
20774 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
20775 so that they all take the same named flags.
20778 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
20779 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
20780 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
20783 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
20784 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
20785 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
20786 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
20787 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
20788 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
20790 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
20791 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
20792 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
20793 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
20794 annotations along with descriptors.
20795 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
20796 source, and its purpose.
20797 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
20799 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
20800 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
20801 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
20802 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
20805 o Major features (directory authorities):
20806 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
20808 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
20809 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
20810 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
20811 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
20812 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
20813 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
20815 o Major features (v3 directory system):
20816 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
20817 and download the descriptors listed in them.
20818 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
20819 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
20820 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
20822 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20823 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
20824 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
20825 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
20828 o Major bugfixes (performance):
20829 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
20830 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
20831 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
20832 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
20834 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
20835 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
20836 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
20837 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
20838 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
20839 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
20841 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
20842 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
20844 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
20845 certificate is requested.
20846 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
20847 certificate requests.
20849 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
20850 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
20851 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
20852 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
20855 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20856 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
20857 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
20858 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20860 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
20861 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
20863 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
20864 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
20865 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20866 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
20867 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
20868 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
20869 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
20870 downloads more sensible.
20871 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
20872 another when serving certificates.
20874 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20875 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
20876 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
20877 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
20879 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
20880 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20881 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
20883 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
20884 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20886 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20887 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
20888 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
20889 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
20890 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20892 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
20893 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
20894 WARN-severity events.
20895 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
20896 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
20897 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
20899 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
20900 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
20901 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
20903 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
20904 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
20905 circuit cannibalization).
20907 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20908 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
20909 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
20910 new module, networkstatus.c.
20911 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
20912 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
20913 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
20914 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
20915 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
20916 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
20917 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
20918 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
20919 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
20921 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
20923 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
20924 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20927 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
20928 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
20929 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
20930 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
20932 o New directory authorities:
20933 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
20934 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
20936 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20937 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
20938 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
20940 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
20941 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
20942 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
20943 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
20944 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20945 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
20946 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
20947 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
20948 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
20949 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
20950 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20952 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20953 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
20954 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
20955 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
20956 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
20957 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
20958 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
20959 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
20960 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
20962 o Minor features (security):
20963 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
20964 address maps to an internal address space.
20965 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
20966 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
20968 o Minor features (guard nodes):
20969 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
20970 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
20971 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
20972 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
20974 o Minor features (speed):
20975 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
20976 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
20977 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
20978 on big-endian hosts.)
20980 o Minor features (controller):
20981 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
20982 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
20983 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
20984 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
20987 o Removed features:
20988 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
20989 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
20990 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
20991 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
20992 implementation of proposal 104.
20993 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
20994 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
20995 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
20996 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
20997 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
20998 patch from Karsten Loesing.
20999 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
21000 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
21003 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
21004 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
21005 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21006 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
21007 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21008 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
21009 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21010 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
21011 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
21012 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21013 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
21014 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
21015 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
21016 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21017 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
21018 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
21019 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
21020 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21021 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
21022 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
21024 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21025 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
21026 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
21028 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
21029 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
21030 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
21031 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
21034 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
21035 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
21036 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
21037 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
21038 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
21041 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
21042 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
21045 o Major bugfixes (security):
21046 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
21047 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
21048 become more of a headache than it's worth.
21050 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
21051 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
21052 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
21054 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
21055 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
21056 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
21057 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
21058 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
21059 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
21061 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
21062 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
21063 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
21064 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
21065 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
21067 o Minor features (controller):
21068 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
21069 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
21070 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
21071 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
21073 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21074 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
21075 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
21076 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
21077 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
21078 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
21079 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
21080 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
21082 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21083 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
21084 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
21085 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
21086 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
21087 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
21088 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
21089 if we ran off the end of the list.
21090 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
21091 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
21092 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
21093 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
21094 every time we change any piece of our config.
21095 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
21096 encourage people using them to stop.
21097 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
21099 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
21100 servers to choose a circuit.
21101 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
21102 unparseable piece of it.
21105 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
21106 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
21107 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
21108 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
21111 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
21112 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
21113 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
21114 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
21115 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
21117 o New directory authorities:
21118 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
21121 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
21122 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
21123 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
21124 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
21126 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
21127 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
21128 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
21130 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
21131 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
21132 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
21133 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
21134 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
21135 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
21137 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
21138 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
21139 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21142 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
21143 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
21144 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
21145 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
21149 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
21150 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
21151 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
21152 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
21154 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
21155 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
21157 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
21158 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
21159 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
21160 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
21161 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
21162 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
21163 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21164 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
21165 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21166 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
21169 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
21170 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
21171 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
21172 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
21173 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
21174 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
21176 o Removed features:
21177 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
21178 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
21179 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
21180 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
21183 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
21184 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
21185 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
21186 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
21187 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
21190 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
21191 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
21192 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
21193 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
21194 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
21195 reported by lodger.
21197 o Minor features (directory servers):
21198 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
21199 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
21201 o Minor features (directory voting):
21202 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
21205 o Minor features (security):
21206 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
21207 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
21208 encourage people using them to stop.
21210 o Minor features (controller):
21211 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
21212 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
21213 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
21214 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
21215 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
21216 cookie authentication file, and config option
21217 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
21219 o Minor features (unit testing):
21220 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
21221 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
21222 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
21223 logging for the unit tests.
21225 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
21226 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
21227 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
21228 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
21229 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
21230 every time we change any piece of our config.
21231 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
21232 the future. Fixes bug 434.
21233 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
21235 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
21236 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
21237 the onion key from getting rotated.
21238 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
21239 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
21240 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
21243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21244 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
21245 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
21247 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
21248 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
21249 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
21250 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
21253 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
21254 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
21255 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
21256 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
21257 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
21258 TorK, etc. Or worse.
21260 o Major security fixes:
21261 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
21262 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
21265 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
21266 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
21267 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
21268 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21270 o Major security fixes:
21271 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
21272 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
21274 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
21275 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
21278 o Minor features (performance):
21279 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
21280 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
21281 performance-intensive.
21282 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
21283 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
21284 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
21285 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
21286 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
21287 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
21291 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
21292 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
21293 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
21294 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
21298 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
21299 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
21300 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
21301 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
21302 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
21304 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
21305 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
21306 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
21307 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
21309 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
21310 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
21311 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
21312 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
21313 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
21315 o Major features (experimental):
21316 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
21317 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
21318 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
21319 handling before it's ready for use.
21322 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
21323 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
21324 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
21325 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
21326 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
21327 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
21329 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
21330 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
21331 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
21332 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
21333 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
21335 o Major bugfixes (directory):
21336 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
21337 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
21339 o Minor features (controller):
21340 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
21341 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
21342 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
21343 from Robert Hogan.)
21344 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
21345 from Robert Hogan.)
21346 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
21347 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
21349 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
21350 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
21351 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
21352 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
21353 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
21354 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
21355 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
21358 o Minor features (misc):
21359 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
21361 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
21362 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
21363 the authority identity key.
21364 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
21366 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
21367 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
21368 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
21371 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
21372 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
21373 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
21374 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
21375 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
21376 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
21377 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
21378 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
21380 o Performance improvements:
21381 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
21383 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
21384 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
21387 o Deprecated and removed features:
21388 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
21389 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
21390 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
21391 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
21393 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
21394 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
21395 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
21396 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
21397 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
21398 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
21399 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
21400 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
21401 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
21404 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
21405 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
21406 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
21407 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
21408 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
21410 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
21411 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
21414 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21415 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
21416 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
21417 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
21418 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
21419 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
21420 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
21421 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
21422 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
21425 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
21426 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
21427 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
21428 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
21430 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
21431 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
21433 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21434 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
21435 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
21436 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
21437 routerlist while inserting a new router.
21438 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
21439 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
21441 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
21442 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
21443 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
21445 o Major bugfixes (security):
21446 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
21448 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
21449 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
21450 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
21451 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
21452 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
21453 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
21454 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
21455 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
21456 guard list unless we need to.
21458 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
21459 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
21460 don't get overused as guards.
21462 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
21463 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
21464 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
21465 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
21466 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
21468 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21469 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
21470 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
21473 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21474 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
21475 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
21476 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
21477 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
21478 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
21479 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
21480 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
21483 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
21484 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
21485 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
21486 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
21488 o Minor features (directory):
21489 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
21490 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
21491 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
21492 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
21494 o Minor build issues:
21495 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
21496 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
21497 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
21498 in the tarball, not as "x".
21501 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
21502 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
21503 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
21504 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
21505 forward on a lot of fronts.
21507 o Major features, server usability:
21508 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
21509 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
21510 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
21511 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
21513 o Major features, client usability:
21514 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
21515 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
21516 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
21517 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
21518 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
21519 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
21520 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
21521 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
21523 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
21524 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
21525 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
21526 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
21527 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
21528 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
21530 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
21531 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
21532 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
21534 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
21535 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
21536 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
21537 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
21538 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
21540 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
21541 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
21542 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
21543 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
21545 o Major features, other:
21546 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
21547 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
21548 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
21549 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
21550 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
21553 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
21554 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
21555 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
21558 o Minor fixes (resource management):
21559 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
21560 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
21561 our allocated connection limit.
21562 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
21563 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
21564 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
21565 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
21566 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
21568 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
21569 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
21570 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
21572 o Minor features (build):
21573 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
21574 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
21575 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
21576 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
21578 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
21579 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
21580 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
21581 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
21582 Use this version consistently in log messages.
21584 o Minor features (logging):
21585 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
21586 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
21587 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
21588 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
21589 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
21592 o Minor features (directory system):
21593 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
21594 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
21595 not to serve V2 directory information.
21596 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
21597 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
21598 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
21600 o Minor features (controller):
21601 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
21602 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
21604 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
21605 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
21606 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
21607 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
21608 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
21609 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
21611 o Minor features (hidden services):
21612 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
21613 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
21614 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
21615 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
21617 o Minor features (other):
21619 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
21620 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
21621 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
21622 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
21623 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
21624 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
21625 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
21626 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
21627 longer a completely silly thing to do.
21628 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
21629 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
21630 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
21631 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
21633 o Removed features:
21634 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
21635 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
21636 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
21637 back an error and close the connection.
21638 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
21639 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
21642 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21643 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
21644 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
21645 makes the log messages nicer.
21646 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
21647 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
21648 partial results on small file reads.
21650 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
21651 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
21652 more often than they are allowed to appear.
21653 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
21654 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
21656 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21657 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
21658 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
21659 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
21661 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21662 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
21663 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
21664 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
21665 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
21666 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
21667 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
21668 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
21669 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
21670 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
21671 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
21673 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
21674 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
21675 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
21677 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
21678 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
21679 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
21680 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
21682 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21683 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
21684 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
21686 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
21687 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
21690 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21691 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
21692 implicit in other procedure arguments.
21693 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
21694 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
21695 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
21696 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
21697 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
21698 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
21699 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
21700 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
21701 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
21704 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
21705 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
21706 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
21707 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
21709 o Directory authority changes:
21710 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
21711 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
21712 or use hidden services.
21714 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21715 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
21716 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
21717 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
21718 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
21719 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
21720 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
21721 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
21722 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
21725 o Major bugfixes (security):
21726 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
21727 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
21728 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
21730 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
21731 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
21732 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
21733 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
21734 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
21735 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
21736 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
21737 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
21738 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
21739 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
21742 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
21743 purpose=controller.
21744 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
21745 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
21747 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
21748 having a hard time downloading.
21749 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
21750 partial results on small file reads.
21751 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
21752 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
21753 the gaps in the store get very large.
21756 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
21757 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
21759 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
21760 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
21763 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
21764 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
21765 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
21766 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
21767 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
21768 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
21770 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
21771 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
21772 free speech on the Internet.
21775 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
21776 get one we don't recognize.
21777 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
21778 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
21781 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
21783 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
21784 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
21785 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
21786 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
21789 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
21790 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
21793 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
21794 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
21795 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
21796 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
21797 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
21798 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
21799 ask for GUARDS too.
21802 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
21803 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
21804 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
21805 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
21806 on Win98 and friends again.
21808 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21809 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
21810 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
21813 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
21814 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
21815 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
21816 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
21817 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
21818 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
21819 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
21820 and maybe also bug 397.)
21822 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21823 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
21824 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
21826 o Minor bugfixes (server):
21827 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
21830 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21831 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
21832 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
21833 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
21834 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
21836 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21837 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
21838 load on authorities.
21840 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21841 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
21842 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
21843 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
21845 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
21847 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
21848 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
21849 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
21850 the last of bug 326.)
21851 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
21852 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
21856 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
21857 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21858 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
21859 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
21860 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
21861 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
21862 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
21864 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
21865 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
21867 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21868 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
21869 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
21871 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
21872 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
21873 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
21875 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21876 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
21877 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
21878 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
21880 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
21881 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
21883 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
21884 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
21885 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
21888 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21889 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
21890 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
21891 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
21892 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
21893 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
21894 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
21895 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
21896 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
21897 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
21898 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
21899 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
21900 other than file-not-found.
21901 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
21902 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
21903 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
21904 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
21905 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
21906 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
21907 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
21908 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
21909 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
21910 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
21911 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
21912 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
21913 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
21914 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
21915 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
21917 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
21919 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
21920 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
21922 o Minor features (controller):
21923 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
21924 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
21925 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
21927 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
21928 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
21929 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
21930 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
21931 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
21932 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
21933 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
21934 connected or resolved cell.
21936 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21937 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
21938 some profiles, but not others.)
21939 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
21940 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
21941 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
21944 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
21946 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
21947 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
21948 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
21949 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
21950 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
21951 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
21952 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
21953 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
21954 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
21955 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
21956 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
21957 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
21958 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
21959 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
21960 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
21962 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
21965 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
21966 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
21967 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
21968 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
21969 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
21970 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
21971 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
21973 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
21974 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
21975 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
21976 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
21977 buckets go absurdly negative.
21978 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
21979 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
21982 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
21983 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
21984 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
21985 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
21986 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
21987 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
21988 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
21989 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
21992 o Major bugfixes (other):
21993 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
21994 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
21995 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
21996 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
21998 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
22000 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
22001 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
22003 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
22004 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
22005 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
22006 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
22007 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
22008 to wait for 0.2.0.)
22010 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
22011 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
22012 possible memory-stomping bugs.
22013 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
22014 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
22016 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
22017 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
22018 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
22019 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
22020 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
22021 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
22023 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22024 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
22025 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
22026 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
22028 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
22029 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
22030 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
22031 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
22032 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
22033 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
22034 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
22035 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
22036 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
22037 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
22038 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
22039 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
22040 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
22042 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
22043 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
22044 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
22045 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
22046 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
22047 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
22048 to the resulting address.
22051 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
22052 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
22053 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
22054 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
22057 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
22058 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
22060 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
22061 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
22062 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
22063 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
22064 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
22065 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
22066 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
22067 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
22068 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
22069 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
22070 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
22071 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
22072 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
22073 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
22074 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
22075 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
22076 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
22079 o Minor features (controller):
22080 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
22081 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
22082 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
22083 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
22084 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
22085 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
22086 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
22090 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
22092 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
22093 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
22094 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
22095 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
22096 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
22097 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
22100 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
22101 weren't planning to resolve.
22102 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
22103 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
22104 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
22105 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
22106 the controller from learning about current events.
22108 o Minor features (more controller status events):
22109 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
22110 learn when our address changes.
22111 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
22112 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
22113 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
22114 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
22116 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
22117 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
22118 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
22119 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
22120 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
22121 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
22122 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
22123 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
22124 are accepted by a directory.
22125 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
22126 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
22127 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
22128 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
22129 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
22131 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
22132 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
22133 about changes to DNS server status.
22135 o Minor features (directory):
22136 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
22137 too much load to the exit nodes.
22140 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
22142 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
22143 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
22144 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
22145 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
22146 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
22148 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
22149 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
22150 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
22152 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
22153 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
22154 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
22155 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
22156 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
22157 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
22158 config options if you like.
22160 o Minor features (config and docs):
22161 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
22162 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
22163 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22164 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
22165 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
22167 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
22168 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
22169 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
22170 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
22171 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
22173 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
22174 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
22175 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
22176 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
22177 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
22178 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
22179 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
22180 documentation: "make check-docs".
22181 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
22182 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
22184 o Minor features (DNS):
22185 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
22186 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
22187 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
22188 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
22189 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
22190 our tests for DNS hijacking.
22192 o Minor features (directory):
22193 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
22194 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
22195 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
22196 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
22197 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
22198 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
22199 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
22200 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
22201 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
22202 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
22203 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
22204 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
22205 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
22206 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
22207 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
22208 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
22209 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
22210 for the thing we're trying to download.
22211 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
22212 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
22213 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
22215 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
22216 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
22217 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
22220 o Minor features (controller):
22221 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
22222 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
22224 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
22225 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
22226 entry guard status as it changes.
22228 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
22229 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
22230 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
22231 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
22232 to set log options.
22233 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
22234 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
22235 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
22236 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
22239 o Major bugfixes (security):
22240 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
22241 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
22242 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
22243 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
22245 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
22246 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
22247 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
22248 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
22249 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
22251 o Major bugfixes (other):
22252 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
22253 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
22254 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
22255 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
22257 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
22258 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
22259 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
22260 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
22261 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
22262 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
22266 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
22267 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
22268 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
22269 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
22270 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
22272 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
22273 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
22275 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
22276 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
22277 family lists conveniently.
22278 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
22279 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
22280 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
22282 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
22283 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
22285 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
22286 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
22287 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
22288 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
22289 if their identity keys are as expected.
22290 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
22291 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
22292 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
22294 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22295 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
22296 reported by Mike Perry.
22297 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
22298 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
22299 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
22300 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
22303 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
22304 o Security bugfixes:
22305 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
22306 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
22307 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
22308 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
22312 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
22313 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
22314 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
22317 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
22319 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
22320 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
22321 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
22324 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
22325 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
22326 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
22327 watching for STREAM events.
22328 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
22329 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
22330 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
22331 operations, for profiling.
22334 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
22335 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
22336 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
22337 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
22338 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
22339 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
22341 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
22345 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
22346 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
22347 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
22348 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
22349 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
22351 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
22352 correctly in the Windows installer.
22353 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
22354 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
22355 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
22356 MIPSpro C compiler.
22357 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
22358 when we're running as a client.
22361 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
22363 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
22364 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
22365 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
22366 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
22367 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
22368 its circuits on demand.
22369 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
22370 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
22371 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
22372 connections more stable on average.
22373 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
22374 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
22375 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
22377 o Security bugfixes:
22378 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
22379 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
22382 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
22384 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
22385 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
22386 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
22387 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
22388 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
22389 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
22390 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
22391 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
22394 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
22396 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
22397 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
22398 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
22399 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
22400 routers for even longer.
22401 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
22402 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
22403 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
22404 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
22405 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
22406 caching HTTP proxies.
22407 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
22410 o Minor features, controller:
22411 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
22412 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
22413 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
22414 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
22416 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
22417 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
22418 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
22419 working much like those for circuit events.
22420 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
22421 about the current status of a router.
22422 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
22423 a router's status has changed.
22424 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
22425 can tell which events and features are supported.
22426 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
22427 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
22429 o Security bugfixes:
22430 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
22431 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
22434 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
22435 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
22436 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
22437 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
22438 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
22439 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
22440 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
22441 long nicknames where appropriate.
22442 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
22443 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
22444 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
22445 chews through many circuits before giving up.
22446 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
22447 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
22448 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
22449 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
22450 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
22451 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
22453 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
22454 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
22455 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
22457 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
22458 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
22459 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
22460 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
22461 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
22462 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
22463 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
22464 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
22465 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
22466 (reported by fookoowa).
22467 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
22468 and reported by some Centos users.
22469 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
22470 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
22471 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
22472 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
22473 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
22474 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
22475 before we check for libevent.
22478 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
22480 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
22481 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
22482 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
22483 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
22484 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
22485 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
22486 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
22487 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
22488 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
22489 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
22490 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
22491 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
22492 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
22493 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
22494 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
22495 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
22496 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
22497 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
22498 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
22499 lets you turn it off.
22500 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
22501 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
22502 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
22503 us into the directory more quickly.
22505 o New/improved config options:
22506 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
22507 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
22508 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
22509 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
22510 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
22511 all the machines on the same subnet.
22512 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
22513 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
22514 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
22515 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
22516 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
22517 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
22518 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
22519 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
22520 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
22521 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
22523 o Minor features, controller:
22524 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
22525 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
22526 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
22527 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
22528 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
22529 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
22530 for more information.
22531 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
22532 best guess to the user.
22533 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
22534 descriptor has changed.
22535 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
22537 o Minor features, other:
22538 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
22539 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
22540 useful to the network.
22541 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
22542 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
22543 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
22544 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
22545 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
22546 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
22547 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
22548 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
22549 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
22550 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
22551 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
22552 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
22553 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
22554 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
22555 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
22557 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
22558 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
22559 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
22560 could return an unnamed server instead.
22561 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
22562 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
22563 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
22564 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
22565 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
22566 a more attractive target for compromise.)
22567 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
22568 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
22569 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
22571 o Major bugfixes, other:
22572 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
22573 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
22574 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
22575 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
22576 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
22577 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
22578 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
22579 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
22580 its circuits on demand.
22581 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
22582 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
22583 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
22584 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
22586 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
22587 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
22588 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
22589 we don't recognize.
22590 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
22592 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
22593 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
22594 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
22595 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
22596 "extendcircuit" request.
22597 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
22598 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
22599 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
22601 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
22602 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
22603 instead of "X resolved to X".
22604 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
22605 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
22606 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
22607 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
22608 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
22609 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
22610 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
22611 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
22612 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
22614 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
22615 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
22616 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
22617 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
22618 result more than once.
22619 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
22620 non-versioning dirservers.
22621 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
22622 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
22624 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
22625 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
22626 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
22627 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
22628 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
22629 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
22630 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
22631 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
22632 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
22634 o Packaging, features:
22635 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
22636 now universal binaries.
22637 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
22638 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
22639 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
22641 o Packaging, bugfixes:
22642 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
22643 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
22644 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
22645 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
22647 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
22648 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
22649 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
22652 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
22653 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
22654 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
22658 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
22660 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
22661 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
22662 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
22663 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
22664 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
22665 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
22666 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
22667 it can't resolve its hostname.
22670 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
22671 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
22672 "extendcircuit" request.
22673 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
22674 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
22675 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
22676 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
22678 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
22679 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
22680 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
22682 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
22683 methods: these are known to be buggy.
22684 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
22685 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
22686 we don't recognize.
22689 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
22691 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
22692 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
22693 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
22694 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
22695 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
22696 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
22697 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
22698 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
22699 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
22700 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
22701 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
22702 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
22703 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
22704 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
22705 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
22706 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
22707 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
22708 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
22709 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
22710 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
22711 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
22712 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
22713 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
22714 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
22717 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
22718 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
22719 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
22720 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
22721 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
22722 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
22723 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
22724 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
22725 recommendation system saner.)
22726 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
22728 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
22729 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
22730 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
22731 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
22732 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
22733 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
22734 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
22735 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
22736 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
22737 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
22738 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
22739 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
22740 your ORPort is set.
22741 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
22742 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
22743 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
22744 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
22745 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
22746 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
22747 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
22748 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
22749 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
22750 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
22751 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
22752 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
22754 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
22755 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
22756 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
22757 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
22758 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
22759 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
22762 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
22763 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
22764 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
22765 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
22766 our DirPort now, etc.
22767 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
22768 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
22769 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
22770 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
22771 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
22772 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
22773 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
22775 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
22776 whether the config options are bad or good.
22777 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
22778 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
22779 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
22780 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
22781 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
22782 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
22783 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
22784 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
22787 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
22788 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
22789 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
22790 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
22791 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
22792 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
22793 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
22794 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
22795 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
22796 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
22797 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
22798 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
22799 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
22800 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
22801 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
22802 of it), is not therefore "up".
22803 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
22804 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
22805 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
22806 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
22807 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
22808 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
22811 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
22813 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
22814 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
22815 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
22816 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
22817 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
22818 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
22819 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
22820 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
22821 test reachability, so you won't publish.
22824 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
22825 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
22826 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
22827 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
22828 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
22830 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
22831 own server descriptor yet.
22834 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
22836 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
22837 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
22838 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
22839 make sure to test via one of these.
22840 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
22841 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
22842 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
22843 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
22844 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
22846 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
22847 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
22848 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
22851 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
22852 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
22853 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
22854 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
22855 directory authority.
22856 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
22857 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
22858 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
22859 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
22862 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
22863 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
22864 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
22866 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
22867 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
22868 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
22869 current guards when picking a new guard.
22870 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
22871 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
22872 when we had more than one pending.
22873 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
22874 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
22875 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
22876 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
22877 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
22878 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
22879 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
22880 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
22881 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
22882 debug the reachability problems better.
22884 o Log / documentation fixes:
22885 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
22886 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
22887 about protocol violations by others.
22888 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
22889 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
22890 about what happened to our old torrc.
22893 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
22895 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
22897 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
22898 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
22899 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
22900 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
22903 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
22905 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
22906 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
22907 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
22908 old ORPort and receive connections.
22909 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
22911 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
22912 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
22913 and network-statuses.
22914 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
22915 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
22916 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
22917 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
22919 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
22922 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
22923 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
22924 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
22927 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
22929 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
22930 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
22931 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
22932 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
22933 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
22936 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
22937 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
22939 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
22940 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
22941 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
22942 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
22943 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
22944 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
22945 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
22946 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
22947 rather than not sending anything back at all.
22948 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
22949 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
22950 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
22951 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
22952 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
22953 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
22954 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
22955 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
22956 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
22957 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
22958 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
22959 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
22960 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
22961 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
22962 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
22963 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
22964 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
22965 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
22966 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
22967 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
22968 default ulimit -n is 1024.
22971 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
22972 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
22973 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
22974 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
22977 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
22979 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
22980 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
22981 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
22982 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
22983 entry guards running these flawed versions.
22984 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
22985 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
22986 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
22987 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
22988 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
22991 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
22992 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
22994 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
22995 and it is confusing some users.
22996 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
22997 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
22998 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
22999 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
23000 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
23003 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
23005 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
23006 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
23007 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
23008 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
23009 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
23010 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
23011 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
23012 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
23013 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
23014 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
23015 dirport is set for now.
23017 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
23018 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
23019 unattached before we fail it?
23020 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
23021 at least this many seconds ago.
23022 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
23023 at least this many seconds ago.
23026 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
23027 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
23028 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
23029 or resolve-wait stream.
23030 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
23031 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
23032 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
23033 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
23034 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
23035 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
23036 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
23037 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
23039 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
23040 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
23041 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
23042 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
23043 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
23044 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
23045 given as hex digests.
23046 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
23047 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
23048 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
23049 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
23050 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
23051 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
23052 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
23053 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
23056 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23057 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
23058 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
23059 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
23060 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
23061 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
23062 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
23063 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
23064 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
23065 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
23066 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
23069 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
23070 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
23071 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
23072 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
23073 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
23074 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
23075 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
23078 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
23079 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
23080 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
23081 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
23082 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
23083 misreading their logs.
23084 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
23085 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
23086 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
23087 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
23088 valid router descriptors.
23089 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
23090 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
23091 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
23092 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
23093 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
23094 silently resetting it to its default.
23095 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
23097 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
23100 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
23101 use clean circuits.
23102 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
23103 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
23104 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
23105 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
23106 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
23108 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
23109 because older Tors do not understand it.
23110 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
23114 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
23115 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
23116 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
23117 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
23118 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
23119 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
23120 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
23121 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
23122 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
23123 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
23124 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
23126 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
23127 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
23128 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
23129 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
23131 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
23132 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
23135 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
23136 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
23137 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
23138 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
23139 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
23140 without getting overloaded.
23141 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
23143 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
23144 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
23145 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
23146 be forward-compatible.
23147 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
23148 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
23149 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
23150 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
23152 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
23153 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
23154 and OR conns to port 443.
23155 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
23156 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
23158 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
23159 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
23160 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
23161 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
23162 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
23163 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
23164 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
23167 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
23168 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23169 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
23170 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
23172 o Other important bugfixes:
23173 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
23174 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
23175 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
23176 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
23178 o Backported features:
23179 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
23180 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
23181 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
23182 without getting overloaded.
23183 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
23184 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
23185 503's whenever they feel busy.
23186 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
23187 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
23188 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
23189 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
23190 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
23193 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
23194 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
23195 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
23196 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
23197 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
23198 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
23199 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
23200 know if the crashes continue.
23201 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
23202 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
23203 seg faults in at least some cases.)
23204 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
23205 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
23206 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
23209 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
23210 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
23211 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
23212 try to be a bit more fair.
23213 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
23214 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
23215 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
23216 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
23217 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
23218 bug that let it go negative.
23219 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
23220 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
23221 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
23222 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
23223 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
23224 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
23225 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
23226 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
23227 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
23228 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
23229 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
23232 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
23234 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
23235 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
23236 service descriptors.
23239 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
23240 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
23241 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
23242 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
23244 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
23245 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
23246 versions *are* still recommended.
23247 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
23248 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
23249 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
23250 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
23251 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
23252 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
23253 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
23254 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
23256 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
23257 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
23258 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
23259 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
23260 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
23261 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
23262 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
23263 on it. Not used by clients yet.
23264 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
23265 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
23266 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
23267 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
23268 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
23269 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
23270 established a circuit.
23271 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
23272 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
23273 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
23274 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
23277 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
23278 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
23279 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
23280 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
23281 quickly enough. Oops.
23282 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
23284 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23285 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
23288 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
23289 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
23290 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
23291 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
23292 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
23293 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
23294 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
23295 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
23296 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
23297 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
23298 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
23299 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
23300 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
23301 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
23302 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
23303 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
23304 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
23307 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
23308 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
23309 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
23310 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
23311 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
23312 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
23313 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
23314 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
23315 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
23316 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
23317 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
23318 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
23319 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
23320 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
23321 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
23322 connections more reliable.
23325 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
23326 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
23327 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
23328 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
23329 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
23330 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
23331 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
23332 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
23333 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
23334 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
23335 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
23336 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
23337 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
23338 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
23342 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
23343 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
23344 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
23345 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
23346 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
23347 need to be uint64_t's.
23348 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
23349 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
23350 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
23352 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
23354 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
23355 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
23356 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
23357 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
23358 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
23359 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
23360 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
23362 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
23363 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
23364 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
23365 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
23366 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
23367 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
23368 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
23369 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
23370 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
23371 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
23372 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
23373 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
23374 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
23377 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
23378 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
23379 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
23380 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
23381 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
23382 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
23383 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
23385 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
23386 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
23387 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
23388 can answer v2 directory requests too.
23389 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
23390 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
23391 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
23392 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
23394 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
23395 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
23396 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
23397 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
23398 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
23399 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
23400 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
23401 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
23402 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
23403 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
23404 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
23405 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
23406 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
23407 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
23408 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
23410 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
23411 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
23414 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
23415 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23416 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
23417 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
23418 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
23419 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
23420 too -- so detect and avoid this.
23421 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
23423 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
23424 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
23425 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
23426 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
23427 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
23428 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
23429 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
23430 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
23431 rendezvous circuits.
23432 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
23434 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23435 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
23436 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
23437 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
23438 advertising it because of hibernation.
23439 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
23440 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
23441 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
23442 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
23443 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
23444 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
23445 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
23446 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
23447 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
23448 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
23449 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
23450 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
23451 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
23452 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
23455 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
23456 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23457 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
23458 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
23459 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
23460 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
23461 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
23462 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
23463 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
23464 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
23465 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
23466 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
23467 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
23468 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
23469 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
23470 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
23471 connections once a week.
23472 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
23473 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
23474 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
23475 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
23476 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
23477 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
23479 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
23480 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
23481 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
23483 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23484 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
23485 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
23486 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
23487 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
23488 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
23489 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
23490 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
23491 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
23492 firewall options forbid.
23493 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
23494 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
23495 can only proxy to certain destinations.
23496 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
23497 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
23498 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
23499 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
23500 aids some statistical attacks.
23501 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
23502 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
23503 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
23504 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
23506 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
23507 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
23508 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
23509 server descriptor sometimes.
23510 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
23511 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
23512 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
23513 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
23514 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
23515 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
23516 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
23517 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
23519 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
23520 case the controller wants to change that too.
23521 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
23522 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
23523 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
23524 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
23526 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
23527 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
23528 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
23530 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
23531 descriptors that they know they will reject.
23533 o Features and updates:
23534 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
23535 significantly faster.
23536 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
23537 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
23538 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
23539 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
23540 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
23541 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
23542 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
23543 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
23544 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
23545 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
23546 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
23547 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
23548 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
23549 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
23550 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
23551 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
23552 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
23553 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
23554 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
23555 as authoritative dirserver.
23556 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
23557 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
23558 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
23561 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
23562 o Usability improvements:
23563 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
23564 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
23566 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
23567 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
23568 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
23570 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
23571 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
23572 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
23573 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
23574 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
23575 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
23576 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
23577 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
23578 memory leaks better.
23579 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
23580 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
23581 their operators to pay close attention.
23582 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
23583 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
23585 o Performance improvements:
23586 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
23587 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
23588 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
23589 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
23590 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
23591 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
23592 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
23593 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
23594 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
23595 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
23596 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
23597 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
23598 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
23599 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
23600 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
23601 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
23602 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
23604 o Security improvements:
23605 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
23606 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
23607 fingerprint of server.
23608 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
23609 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
23610 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
23612 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23613 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
23614 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
23615 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
23616 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
23617 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
23618 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
23619 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
23620 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
23621 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
23622 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
23623 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
23624 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
23625 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
23626 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
23627 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
23628 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
23629 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
23630 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
23631 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
23632 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
23634 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
23635 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
23636 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
23638 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
23639 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
23641 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
23642 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
23643 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
23644 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
23645 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
23646 of the controller protocol.
23647 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
23648 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
23649 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
23652 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
23653 o New features (major):
23654 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
23655 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
23656 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
23657 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
23658 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
23659 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
23660 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
23661 we're using a default DirPort.
23662 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
23664 o New features (minor):
23665 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
23666 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
23667 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
23668 mirrors still cache and serve it).
23669 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
23670 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
23671 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
23672 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
23673 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
23674 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
23675 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
23676 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
23677 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
23678 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
23679 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
23680 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
23681 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
23682 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
23683 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
23685 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
23686 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
23687 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
23688 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
23689 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
23690 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
23691 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
23692 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
23694 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
23695 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
23696 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
23697 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
23698 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
23699 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
23700 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
23701 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
23702 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
23703 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
23705 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
23706 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
23707 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
23708 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
23709 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
23711 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
23712 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
23713 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
23715 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
23716 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
23718 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
23719 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
23720 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
23721 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
23722 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
23723 don't warn twice about the same name.
23724 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
23725 if we've not heard of the server.
23726 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
23727 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
23730 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
23731 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23732 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
23733 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
23734 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
23735 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
23736 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
23737 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
23738 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
23739 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
23740 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
23741 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
23742 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
23743 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
23744 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
23747 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
23748 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
23749 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
23750 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
23751 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
23753 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
23754 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
23755 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
23756 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
23757 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
23758 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
23762 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
23763 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
23764 nickname) is reachable by you.
23765 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
23768 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
23769 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
23770 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
23771 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
23772 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
23773 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
23774 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
23775 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
23776 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
23777 we fail to connect).
23778 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
23779 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
23780 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
23781 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
23783 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
23784 it was self-testing that told us so.
23787 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
23788 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
23789 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
23790 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
23791 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
23792 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
23793 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
23794 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
23795 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
23796 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
23797 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
23798 exit policy using him for any exits.
23799 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
23802 o New controller features/fixes:
23803 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
23804 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
23805 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
23806 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
23807 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
23808 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
23809 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
23810 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
23811 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
23813 o Start on the new directory design:
23814 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
23815 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
23817 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
23818 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
23819 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
23820 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
23822 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
23823 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
23824 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
23825 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
23826 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
23827 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
23828 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
23829 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
23832 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
23833 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
23834 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
23835 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
23836 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
23837 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
23838 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
23839 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
23840 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
23841 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
23843 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
23844 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
23845 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
23846 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
23847 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
23848 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
23849 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
23850 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
23851 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
23853 o Config option changes:
23854 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
23855 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
23856 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
23857 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
23858 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
23859 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
23861 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
23862 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
23863 people have started using them for spam too.
23864 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
23865 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
23866 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
23867 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
23868 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
23869 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
23870 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
23871 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
23872 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
23873 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
23874 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
23875 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
23876 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
23877 services faster on the service end.
23878 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
23879 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
23880 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
23881 it a fair shake next time we try.
23882 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
23883 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
23884 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
23885 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
23886 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
23887 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
23888 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
23889 able to discover them.
23890 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
23891 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
23892 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
23893 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
23894 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
23895 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
23896 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
23897 testing for reachability.
23898 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
23899 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
23901 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
23903 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
23904 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
23907 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
23908 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
23910 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23911 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
23912 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
23913 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
23916 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
23917 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23918 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
23920 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
23921 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
23924 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
23925 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
23928 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
23929 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
23930 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
23931 options, getinfo keys.
23934 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
23935 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23936 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
23937 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
23938 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
23939 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
23940 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
23942 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
23943 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
23947 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
23948 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
23949 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
23951 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
23953 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
23954 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
23955 circuit events and we go offline.
23956 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
23957 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
23958 you don't have enough intro points already.
23960 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
23961 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
23962 many bytes we've used in this time period.
23963 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
23964 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
23965 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
23966 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
23967 enabled by default yet.
23969 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
23970 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
23971 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
23972 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
23973 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
23976 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
23977 o New directory servers:
23978 - tor26 has changed IP address.
23980 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23981 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
23982 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
23983 pthreads libraries.
23984 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
23985 claims its dirport is 0.
23986 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
23987 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
23991 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
23992 o New directory servers:
23993 - tor26 has changed IP address.
23995 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
23996 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
23998 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
23999 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
24000 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
24001 ports that have changed.
24002 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
24004 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
24005 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
24006 Windows-style errno back.
24007 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
24009 want to make it an NT service.
24010 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
24011 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
24012 name, give the full name in our response.
24013 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
24014 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
24015 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
24016 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
24017 pthreads libraries.
24019 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
24020 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
24024 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
24025 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
24026 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
24027 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
24028 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
24031 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
24032 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24033 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
24034 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
24035 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
24036 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
24037 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
24038 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
24041 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
24043 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
24044 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
24045 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
24046 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
24047 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
24048 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
24050 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
24051 temporarily unreachable.
24052 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
24056 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
24057 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
24058 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
24059 our protocol works.
24060 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
24064 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
24065 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
24066 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
24067 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
24068 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
24072 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
24073 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
24074 libevent before 1.1a.
24077 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
24079 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
24080 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
24081 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
24082 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
24083 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
24085 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
24086 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
24087 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
24088 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
24089 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
24090 of CPU time plus memory.
24091 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
24092 normal web requests.
24093 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
24094 tor_lookup_hostname().
24095 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
24096 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
24097 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
24098 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
24099 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
24100 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
24102 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
24103 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
24104 HttpProxyAuthenticator
24105 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
24106 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
24107 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
24109 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
24110 the user asks you to.
24111 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
24112 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
24113 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
24114 their descriptors are being rejected.
24115 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
24119 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
24121 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
24122 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
24123 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
24125 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
24127 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
24129 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
24130 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
24131 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
24132 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
24133 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
24134 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
24135 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
24136 keys) from the exit server's process.
24137 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
24138 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
24139 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
24140 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
24141 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
24142 point at your Tor server.
24143 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
24144 you're not sending a socks reply back.
24147 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
24148 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
24149 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
24150 to make it easier to write controllers.
24153 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
24155 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
24156 installing on Tiger.
24157 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
24158 complain during installation.
24159 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
24160 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
24161 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
24162 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
24163 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
24164 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
24166 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
24167 something more reasonable when first installing.
24168 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
24171 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
24173 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
24174 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
24176 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
24177 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
24178 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
24179 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
24180 when using the default exit policy.
24181 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
24182 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
24183 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
24184 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
24185 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
24186 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
24187 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
24188 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
24189 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
24190 we fetched a new directory.
24191 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
24192 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
24195 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
24196 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
24197 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
24198 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
24199 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
24200 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
24201 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
24202 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
24204 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
24205 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
24206 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
24207 save memory on systems that need to fork.
24208 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
24209 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
24210 is valid without actually launching Tor.
24211 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
24212 rather than just rejecting it.
24215 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
24217 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
24218 we didn't like its cert.
24220 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
24221 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
24222 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
24223 on patch from Adam Langley.
24224 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
24225 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
24226 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
24227 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
24229 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
24230 directory every time you regenerate it.
24231 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
24232 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
24235 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
24236 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24237 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
24238 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
24239 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
24242 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
24244 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
24245 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
24246 TLS errors better in other situations too.
24247 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
24248 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
24249 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
24250 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
24251 and don't log when you are.
24252 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
24253 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
24255 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
24256 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
24257 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
24258 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
24259 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
24262 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
24263 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
24264 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
24265 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
24266 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
24267 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
24268 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
24269 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
24270 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
24271 nickname+key are allowed.
24272 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
24273 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
24274 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
24275 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
24276 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
24277 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
24278 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
24279 have quite wrong clocks).
24280 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
24281 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
24282 - Efficiency improvements:
24283 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
24284 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
24285 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
24286 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
24287 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
24288 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
24289 lowercase and be done with it.
24290 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
24291 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
24292 to abandon partially built circuits.
24293 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
24294 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
24296 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
24298 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
24299 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
24300 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
24301 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
24303 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
24304 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
24306 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
24307 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
24308 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
24309 obeying the exit policy internally.
24310 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
24311 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
24313 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
24314 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
24315 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
24316 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
24318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
24319 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
24320 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
24321 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
24322 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
24324 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
24325 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
24326 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
24327 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
24328 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
24329 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
24330 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
24331 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
24332 descriptors we just dropped.
24333 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
24334 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
24335 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
24336 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
24337 artificially capped at 500kB.
24340 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
24341 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24342 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
24343 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
24344 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
24345 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
24346 busy for more than 100 seconds.
24349 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
24350 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
24351 - Fixes on reachability detection:
24352 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
24353 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
24354 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
24355 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
24356 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
24357 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
24358 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
24359 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
24360 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
24361 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
24362 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
24363 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
24364 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
24365 server not already connected to them.
24366 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
24367 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
24368 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
24370 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
24372 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
24373 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
24374 are in a different state than they actually are.
24375 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
24376 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
24377 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
24379 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
24380 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
24381 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
24383 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
24384 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
24385 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
24386 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
24387 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
24388 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
24389 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
24391 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
24392 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
24393 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
24394 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
24397 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
24398 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24399 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
24400 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
24401 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
24402 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
24403 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
24404 creating actual system users.
24405 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
24406 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
24410 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
24412 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
24413 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
24414 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
24415 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
24416 hidden services better.
24417 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
24419 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
24420 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
24421 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
24422 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
24423 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
24424 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
24425 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
24426 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
24427 patch by Matt Edman).
24428 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
24429 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
24430 required exit node for certain sites.
24431 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
24432 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
24433 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
24434 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
24435 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
24436 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
24437 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
24438 rather than just "success" or "failure".
24439 - A more sane version numbering system. See
24440 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
24441 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
24442 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
24444 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
24445 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
24446 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
24447 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
24448 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
24449 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
24450 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
24452 o Robustness/stability fixes:
24453 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
24454 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
24455 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
24457 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
24458 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
24459 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
24461 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
24462 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
24463 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
24465 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
24466 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
24467 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
24468 that will want high uptime circuits.
24469 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
24470 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
24471 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
24472 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
24473 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
24474 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
24475 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
24476 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
24477 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
24478 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
24479 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
24480 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
24481 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
24482 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
24483 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
24484 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
24485 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
24486 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
24487 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
24488 when we try to launch one.
24489 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
24490 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
24491 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
24492 "ShutdownWaitLength".
24493 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
24494 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
24495 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
24496 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
24497 and to take errno into account where possible.
24500 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
24501 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
24502 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
24503 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
24504 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
24505 file more reasonable.
24506 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
24507 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
24508 addresses -- it won't.
24509 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
24510 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
24511 for google.com" problem.
24512 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
24513 so it's not just "unknown platform".
24514 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
24515 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
24516 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
24517 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
24519 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
24520 they could use instead.
24521 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
24522 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
24523 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
24524 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
24525 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
24526 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
24527 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
24528 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
24529 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
24531 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
24535 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
24536 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
24538 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
24539 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
24540 private-IP addresses.
24541 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
24542 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
24544 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
24545 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
24546 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
24547 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
24548 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
24549 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
24550 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
24552 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
24553 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
24554 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
24555 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
24556 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
24557 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
24558 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
24559 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
24561 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
24563 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
24564 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
24565 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
24566 whether the server is hibernating.
24569 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
24570 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
24571 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
24572 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
24573 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
24574 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
24575 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
24576 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
24577 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
24578 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
24579 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
24580 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
24581 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
24582 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
24583 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
24585 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
24586 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
24587 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
24588 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
24589 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
24590 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
24591 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
24592 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
24593 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
24594 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
24595 existing torrc files.
24596 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
24599 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
24600 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24601 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
24602 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
24603 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
24604 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
24605 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
24606 the win32 SYSTEM account.
24607 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
24608 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
24609 file descriptors available.
24610 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
24611 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
24612 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
24615 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
24616 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24617 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
24618 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
24620 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
24621 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
24622 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
24623 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
24624 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
24626 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
24627 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
24628 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
24629 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
24630 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
24631 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
24632 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
24633 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
24634 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
24635 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
24636 800kB/s of capacity.
24637 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
24640 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
24641 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24642 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
24643 need as much processor time.
24644 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
24645 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
24646 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
24647 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
24648 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
24649 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
24650 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
24651 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
24652 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
24653 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
24654 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
24655 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
24657 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
24658 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
24659 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
24660 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
24661 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
24662 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
24663 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
24666 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
24667 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
24668 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
24670 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
24671 style address, then we'd crash.
24672 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
24673 a dirserver is broken.
24674 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
24676 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
24677 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
24678 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
24680 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
24681 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
24682 name out of the warning/assert messages.
24683 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
24684 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
24685 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
24687 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
24688 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
24689 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
24691 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
24693 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
24694 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
24695 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
24696 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
24697 values at once couldn't work.
24698 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
24699 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
24700 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
24701 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
24702 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
24703 they can handle any number of routers.
24704 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
24705 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
24706 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
24707 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
24708 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
24709 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
24710 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
24711 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
24712 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
24715 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
24716 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24717 - Make hibernation actually work.
24718 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
24719 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
24720 don't use the stream status code.
24723 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
24725 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
24726 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
24728 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
24731 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
24732 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
24733 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
24734 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
24735 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
24736 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
24737 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
24738 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
24739 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
24740 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
24742 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24743 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
24744 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
24745 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
24746 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
24747 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
24748 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
24749 - Make unit tests work on win32.
24752 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
24753 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
24754 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
24756 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
24757 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
24758 than just chopping them off.
24759 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
24761 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24762 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
24763 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
24764 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
24765 right after sending the begin cell.
24766 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
24767 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
24768 exit nodes too. Oops.
24771 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
24772 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
24773 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
24774 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
24775 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
24776 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
24777 the user knows which one it's talking about.
24778 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
24779 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
24780 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
24783 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
24784 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24785 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
24786 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
24788 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
24790 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
24791 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
24792 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
24794 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
24795 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
24796 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
24797 Clip rather than rejecting.
24798 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
24799 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
24802 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
24803 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
24804 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
24805 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
24807 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
24810 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
24811 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24812 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
24813 win32 socket errors better.
24815 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
24816 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
24819 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
24820 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24821 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
24822 so we don't see those messages days later.
24824 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
24825 - Make tor-resolve work again.
24826 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
24827 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
24830 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
24831 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
24832 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
24833 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
24835 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
24836 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
24837 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
24840 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
24841 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24842 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
24843 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
24844 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
24845 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
24846 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
24847 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
24848 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
24850 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
24851 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
24852 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
24853 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
24855 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
24856 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
24859 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
24860 hibernation properties by
24861 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
24862 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
24863 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
24864 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
24865 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
24866 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
24867 get back to normal.)
24868 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
24870 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
24871 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
24872 to fill the last cell completely.
24873 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
24876 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
24877 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
24878 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
24879 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
24880 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
24881 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
24882 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
24883 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
24884 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
24885 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
24886 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
24888 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
24889 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
24890 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
24891 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
24892 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
24893 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
24894 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
24895 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
24897 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
24898 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
24899 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
24900 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
24901 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
24902 have it on start-up.
24905 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
24906 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
24907 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
24908 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
24909 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
24910 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
24911 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
24912 configuration to torrc.
24913 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
24914 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
24915 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
24916 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
24917 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
24919 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
24920 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
24921 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
24922 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
24923 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
24924 log more informatively.
24925 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
24926 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
24927 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
24928 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
24929 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
24930 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
24931 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
24932 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
24933 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
24934 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
24935 from each other, to hinder linkability.
24938 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
24939 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
24940 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
24941 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
24942 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
24943 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
24944 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
24946 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
24947 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
24948 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
24949 they ran out of file descriptors.
24950 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
24951 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
24952 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
24953 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
24954 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
24955 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
24956 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
24958 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
24961 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
24962 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
24963 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
24964 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
24965 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
24966 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
24967 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
24968 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
24969 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
24970 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
24971 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
24972 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
24973 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
24974 with the control port.
24975 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
24976 use in authenticating to the control interface.
24977 - New log format in config:
24978 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
24979 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
24982 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
24983 from their dirserver.
24984 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
24986 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
24987 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
24988 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
24989 them act more like real nodes.
24990 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
24991 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
24993 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
24994 nickname to its identity key.
24995 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
24996 not on the command line.
24997 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
24998 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
24999 1024) file descriptors.
25001 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
25002 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
25004 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
25005 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
25006 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
25009 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
25010 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
25011 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
25012 exit policy, not reject *:*.
25013 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
25014 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
25015 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
25016 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
25017 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
25018 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
25019 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
25022 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
25023 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
25024 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
25025 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
25026 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
25027 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
25028 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
25031 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
25032 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
25033 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
25034 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
25035 the ones we find in directories.)
25036 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
25038 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
25039 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
25041 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
25042 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
25043 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
25045 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
25046 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
25047 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
25048 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
25050 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
25051 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
25052 any more exit policy lines.
25055 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
25056 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
25057 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
25058 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
25059 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
25060 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
25061 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
25062 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
25063 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
25064 will be able to get a directory.
25065 - Http proxy support
25066 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
25067 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
25068 be routed through this host.
25069 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
25070 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
25071 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
25072 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
25075 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
25077 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
25078 clients/servers with an open dirport.
25079 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
25080 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
25081 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
25082 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
25083 intermittent connections.
25084 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
25085 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
25087 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
25088 in reporting stats locally.
25089 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
25090 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
25091 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
25094 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
25096 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
25097 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
25100 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
25102 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
25103 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
25104 if you don't want it open.
25105 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
25106 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
25107 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
25108 intermittent connections.
25109 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
25111 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
25112 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
25113 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
25114 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
25115 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
25116 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
25117 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
25118 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
25119 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
25120 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
25121 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
25122 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
25123 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
25124 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
25125 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
25126 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
25129 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
25130 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
25131 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
25132 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
25133 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
25135 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
25137 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
25138 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
25139 specified in HTTP 1.0.
25140 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
25141 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
25142 than once per minute.
25143 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
25144 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
25147 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
25148 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
25151 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
25152 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
25153 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
25154 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
25157 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
25158 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
25160 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
25161 don't put it into the client dns cache.
25162 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
25163 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
25164 until we get our next directory.
25166 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
25167 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
25168 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
25169 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
25170 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
25171 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
25172 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
25173 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
25174 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
25175 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
25176 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
25178 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
25180 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
25181 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
25183 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
25184 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
25185 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
25187 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
25189 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
25190 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
25191 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
25192 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
25193 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
25194 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
25195 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
25196 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
25199 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
25200 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
25201 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
25202 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
25205 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
25206 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
25207 ask them to resolve the host "".
25210 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
25211 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
25212 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
25213 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
25214 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
25215 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
25216 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
25217 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
25218 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
25219 clients don't use this yet.)
25220 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
25221 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
25222 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
25223 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
25224 for pointing out this bug.)
25225 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
25226 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
25227 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
25228 kazaa, gnutella ports.
25229 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
25231 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
25232 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
25233 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
25234 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
25235 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
25236 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
25237 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
25238 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
25239 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
25240 wolf unpredictably.
25241 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
25242 that's still handshaking.
25243 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
25244 you'll choose it for your path.
25245 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
25246 end relay cell, etc.
25247 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
25248 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
25249 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
25252 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
25253 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
25255 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
25256 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
25257 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
25258 list to decide who's running or verified.
25259 - Bugfixes and features:
25260 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
25261 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
25262 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
25263 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
25264 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
25265 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
25267 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
25268 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
25269 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
25270 know you might want to get it verified.
25271 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
25274 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
25276 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
25277 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
25278 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
25279 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
25281 o Protocol changes:
25282 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
25283 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
25284 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
25285 hadn't heard of before.
25288 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
25289 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
25290 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
25291 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
25292 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
25293 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
25294 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
25295 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
25296 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
25297 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
25298 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
25299 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
25300 - Directory caching.
25301 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
25302 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
25303 directory they've pulled down.
25304 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
25305 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
25306 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
25307 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
25308 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
25309 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
25310 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
25312 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
25313 This isn't used yet.
25314 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
25315 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
25316 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
25317 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
25318 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
25319 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
25320 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
25321 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
25322 - File and name management:
25323 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
25324 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
25326 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
25327 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
25328 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
25329 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
25330 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
25331 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
25332 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
25334 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
25335 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
25336 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
25337 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
25338 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
25340 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
25341 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
25342 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
25343 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
25344 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
25345 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
25346 - New docs in the tarball:
25348 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
25351 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
25352 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
25353 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
25356 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
25357 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
25358 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
25361 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
25362 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
25365 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
25366 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
25367 - Make it build on Win32 again.
25368 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
25369 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
25373 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
25375 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
25376 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
25377 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
25378 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
25379 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
25380 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
25381 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
25382 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
25383 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
25384 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
25387 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
25390 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
25391 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
25392 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
25393 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
25395 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
25396 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
25397 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
25399 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
25400 hidden service per 15-minute period.
25401 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
25402 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
25403 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
25404 o Fixes for security bugs:
25405 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
25406 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
25407 a trusted dirserver.
25409 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
25410 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
25411 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
25412 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
25413 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
25414 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
25415 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
25416 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
25417 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
25418 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
25420 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
25421 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
25422 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
25423 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
25425 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
25426 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
25427 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
25428 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
25429 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
25430 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
25431 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
25432 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
25433 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
25434 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
25435 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
25436 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
25437 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
25440 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
25441 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
25442 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
25443 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25446 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
25447 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
25448 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
25449 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
25450 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
25451 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25452 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
25456 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
25457 [version bump only]
25460 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
25461 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
25462 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
25463 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
25464 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
25466 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
25469 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
25470 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
25471 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
25472 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
25473 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
25474 o Better debugging for tls errors
25475 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
25476 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
25477 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
25478 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
25479 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
25480 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
25481 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
25482 o win32's close can't close a socket.
25485 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
25486 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
25487 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
25488 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
25489 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
25490 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
25491 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
25492 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
25493 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
25494 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
25495 just close the circ.
25496 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
25497 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
25498 (this was quite rare).
25501 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
25502 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
25503 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
25504 if you decrypted them correctly.
25505 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
25506 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
25507 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
25510 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
25511 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
25512 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
25513 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
25514 a second one and it works.
25515 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
25516 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
25517 alice would just have to wait to time out.
25518 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
25519 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
25520 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
25521 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
25522 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
25523 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
25524 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
25525 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
25526 i'd still like to find the bug though.
25527 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
25529 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
25533 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
25534 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
25535 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
25536 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
25537 he retries a couple of times
25538 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
25539 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
25540 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
25541 too long (they were sticking around forever).
25542 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
25546 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
25547 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
25548 - make hup work again
25549 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
25550 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
25551 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
25552 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
25553 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
25554 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
25556 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
25557 o changes from 0.0.5:
25558 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
25559 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
25560 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
25561 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
25562 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
25564 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
25565 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
25566 in-memory directories too
25569 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
25570 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
25573 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
25575 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
25576 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
25577 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
25578 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
25581 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
25582 [version bump only]
25585 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
25586 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
25588 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
25589 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
25590 but that aren't warnings
25593 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
25594 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
25595 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
25596 the dns farm to do it.
25597 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
25598 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
25600 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
25601 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
25602 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
25605 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
25606 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
25607 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
25608 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
25609 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
25610 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
25611 expect it to have a nickname.
25612 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
25613 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
25616 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
25617 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
25621 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
25622 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
25623 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
25624 - include missing header fcntl.h
25625 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
25626 - deal with hardware word alignment
25627 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
25628 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
25629 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
25630 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
25631 by kill -USR1 currently.
25632 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
25633 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
25634 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
25637 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
25638 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
25639 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
25642 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
25644 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
25645 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
25646 - And fix a few endian issues.
25649 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
25651 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
25652 try that circuit again: try a new one.
25653 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
25654 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
25655 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
25656 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
25657 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
25658 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
25660 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
25661 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
25662 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
25664 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
25666 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
25667 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
25668 side isn't reading right then.
25669 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
25670 RecommendedVersions
25671 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
25672 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
25673 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
25676 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
25678 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
25679 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
25682 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
25686 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
25688 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
25689 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
25690 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
25691 connection is finished.
25692 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
25693 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
25694 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
25695 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
25696 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
25697 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
25698 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
25699 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
25700 rather than warn and continue.
25701 - Make --version work
25702 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
25705 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
25707 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
25708 knows it's working.
25709 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
25710 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
25712 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
25713 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
25714 so you can collect coredumps there.
25716 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
25717 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
25718 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
25719 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
25720 dns cache actually gets populated.
25721 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
25722 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
25723 end cell down it first.
25724 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
25725 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
25728 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
25730 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
25731 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
25733 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
25734 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
25735 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
25736 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
25737 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
25738 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
25740 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
25742 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
25743 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
25744 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
25745 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
25746 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
25747 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
25749 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
25750 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
25753 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
25755 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
25756 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
25757 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
25758 tor. It even has a man page.
25759 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
25760 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
25761 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
25762 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
25764 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
25766 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
25769 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
25771 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
25772 it, apt-getters. :)
25773 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
25774 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
25775 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
25776 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
25777 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
25778 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
25779 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
25780 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
25781 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
25782 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
25783 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
25785 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
25786 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
25789 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
25791 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
25792 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
25795 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
25797 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
25798 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
25799 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
25800 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
25801 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
25802 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
25803 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
25804 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
25805 logfile so you know it's working.
25806 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
25807 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
25810 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
25812 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
25813 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
25814 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
25817 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
25819 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
25820 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
25821 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
25824 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
25825 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
25826 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
25828 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
25829 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
25831 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
25832 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
25833 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
25835 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
25836 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
25840 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
25842 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
25843 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
25844 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
25847 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
25848 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
25849 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
25850 - Add port ranges to exit policies
25851 - Add a conservative default exit policy
25852 - Warn if you're running tor as root
25853 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
25854 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
25855 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
25856 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
25858 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
25861 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
25862 o Robustness and bugfixes:
25863 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
25864 really screw things up.
25865 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
25867 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
25868 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
25870 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
25871 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
25872 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
25873 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
25874 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
25875 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
25878 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
25881 - Change default loglevel to warn.
25882 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
25883 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
25885 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
25888 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
25889 o Robustness and bugfixes:
25890 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
25891 - to get ownership/permissions right
25892 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
25893 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
25894 pull down a directory again
25895 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
25896 causing server crashes
25897 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
25898 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
25899 - exit if bind() fails
25900 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
25901 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
25902 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
25903 - fix minor bias in PRNG
25904 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
25907 - Wrote the design document (woo)
25909 o Circuit building and exit policies:
25910 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
25912 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
25913 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
25914 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
25915 exists, rather than failing
25916 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
25917 which AP connections are standing by
25918 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
25919 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
25920 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
25922 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
25923 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
25926 - APPort is now called SocksPort
25927 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
25929 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
25930 hardcoded (for dirservers)
25931 - Reloads config on HUP
25932 - Usage info on -h or --help
25933 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
25936 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
25937 o General stability:
25938 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
25939 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
25940 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
25941 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
25942 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
25943 to take down the network when I approve a new router
25944 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
25947 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
25948 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
25950 o Autoconf improvements:
25951 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
25952 - Make install now works
25953 - create var/lib/tor on make install
25954 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
25955 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
25957 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
25958 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
25959 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
25960 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup