1 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 200?-??-??
3 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
4 circuit, unless that connections is canonical. A canonical
5 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
6 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
9 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
10 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for part
11 of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
12 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
13 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
14 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
15 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
16 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
20 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says,
21 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier
22 for users to diagnose.
23 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
24 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
25 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
26 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
28 dns_inits() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject *:*
29 until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
31 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection to an
32 authority at once. This should reduce load on directory authorities.
34 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
35 a signing key is enough information to use to look up a certificate.
36 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
37 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
38 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
39 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
40 Implements proposal 148.
42 o Minor features (controller):
43 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
44 been fetched and validated.
45 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENEDED_FORMAT" feature. It has
46 been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
47 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
48 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
49 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
50 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for controllers
51 to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration. Fixes bug 856.
54 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
55 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
56 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
57 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
58 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
60 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
61 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
62 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
63 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
64 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
65 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
67 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
68 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP; bugfix on
69 0.0.6pre1; also, do not stall hidden services because of introduction
70 points thrown away; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted by John Brooks.
71 Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
73 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
74 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
75 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it belongs.
76 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
77 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
78 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
81 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
82 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
83 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
84 fixes a variety of other issues.
87 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
88 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
89 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
90 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
93 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
94 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
95 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
96 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
99 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
100 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
101 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
105 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
107 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
108 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
109 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
110 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
111 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
112 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
113 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
115 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
116 rest, and don't automatically fail.
117 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
118 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
119 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
120 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
122 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
123 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
124 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
125 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
126 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
127 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
128 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
129 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
130 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
131 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
133 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
137 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
138 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
139 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
141 o Minor features (controller):
142 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
146 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
147 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
148 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
149 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
150 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
151 variety of other issues.
154 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
155 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
156 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
157 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
158 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
159 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
160 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
161 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
162 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
163 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
164 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
165 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
168 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
169 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
171 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
172 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
173 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
174 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
175 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
176 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
177 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
178 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
179 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
180 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
181 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
182 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
183 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
184 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
185 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
189 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
190 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
191 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
192 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
193 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
194 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
195 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
196 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
197 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
198 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
199 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
200 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
201 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
202 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
203 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
204 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
205 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
206 list. It has been gone for many months.
207 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
208 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
209 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
212 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
213 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
214 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
217 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
218 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
219 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
220 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
221 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
222 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
223 variety of other issues.
226 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
227 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
228 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
229 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
230 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
231 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
232 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
233 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
234 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
235 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
236 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
237 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
238 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
239 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
242 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
243 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
244 Suggested by Lucky Green.
245 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
246 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
247 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
248 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
249 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
250 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
252 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
253 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
255 o Hidden service performance improvements:
256 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
257 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
258 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
259 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
260 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
261 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
262 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
263 faster after restart.
266 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
267 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
268 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
269 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
270 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
271 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
272 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
273 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
274 840. Patch from rovv.
275 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
276 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
277 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
278 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
279 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
280 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
281 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
282 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
283 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
285 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
286 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
287 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
288 have already been marked for close.
289 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
291 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
292 memory performance during directory parsing.
293 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
294 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
295 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
296 because of a pending download.
299 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
300 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
301 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
302 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
305 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
306 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
307 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
308 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
309 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
310 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
311 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
312 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
313 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
314 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
315 lookups more reliable.
316 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
317 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
318 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
319 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
320 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
321 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
322 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
325 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
326 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
327 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
328 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
329 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
330 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
331 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
332 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
333 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
334 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
335 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
337 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
338 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
339 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
340 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
341 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
342 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
343 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
344 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
345 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
348 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
349 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
350 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
351 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
352 locked down these days.
353 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
354 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
355 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
356 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
357 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
359 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
360 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
361 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
362 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
363 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
364 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
365 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
366 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
367 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
368 people find host:port too confusing.
369 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
370 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
371 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
374 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
376 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
377 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
378 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
379 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
380 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
382 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
383 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
384 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
385 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
386 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
387 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
388 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
389 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
390 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
391 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
392 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
393 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
395 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
396 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
397 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
398 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
399 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
400 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
401 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
402 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
403 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
405 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
406 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
407 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
408 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
409 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
410 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
411 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
412 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
413 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
414 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
415 bug 820, reported by seeess.
416 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
417 list. It has been gone for many months.
419 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
420 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
421 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
422 actual mistakes we're making here.
423 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
424 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
425 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
426 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
429 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
430 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
431 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
432 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
435 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
436 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
437 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
438 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
439 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
440 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
442 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
443 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
444 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
448 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
449 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
450 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
451 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
452 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
453 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
454 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
455 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
456 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
457 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
458 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
459 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
460 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
461 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bug found by Geoff Goodell.
462 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
463 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
464 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
465 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
466 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
467 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
468 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
469 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
470 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
471 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
472 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
473 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
476 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
477 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
478 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
479 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
480 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
481 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
482 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
485 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
487 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
488 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
489 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
490 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
491 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
492 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
493 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
495 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
496 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
497 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
498 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
499 known descriptor before building circuits.
501 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
502 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
503 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
504 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
505 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
506 identify a connection.
507 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
508 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
509 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
511 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
512 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
513 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
517 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
518 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
519 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
520 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
521 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
522 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
523 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
524 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
525 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
526 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
527 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
528 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
529 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
530 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
531 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
534 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
535 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
536 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
537 answer sections match.
538 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
539 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
542 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
543 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
546 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
547 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
548 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
550 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
551 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
552 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
555 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
556 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
557 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
558 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
562 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
563 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
566 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
567 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
568 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
569 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
570 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
571 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
573 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
574 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
575 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
578 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
579 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
580 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
581 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
582 be sent using an "early" cell.
585 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
586 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
587 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
588 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
589 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
590 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
591 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
594 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
595 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
596 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
597 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
598 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
599 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
600 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
601 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
602 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
603 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
604 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
605 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
606 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
607 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
608 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
609 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
612 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
613 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
614 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
615 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
616 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
617 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
618 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
619 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
620 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
622 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
623 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
624 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
625 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
626 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
629 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
630 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
631 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
632 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
635 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
636 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
640 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
641 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
642 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
645 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
646 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
647 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
648 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
649 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
650 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
651 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
652 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
653 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
654 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
655 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
656 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
657 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
658 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
659 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
660 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
661 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
662 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
663 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
664 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
665 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
666 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
667 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
670 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
671 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
673 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
674 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
675 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
676 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
677 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
678 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
679 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
681 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
682 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
683 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
684 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
685 found by Geoff Goodell.
688 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
689 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
690 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
691 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
692 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
693 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
696 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
697 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
698 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
701 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
702 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
703 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
704 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
705 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
706 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
707 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
708 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
709 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
710 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
711 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
712 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
713 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
714 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
717 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
718 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
719 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
721 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
722 fingerprints with or without space.
723 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
724 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
725 partway through and wants to catch up.
726 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
727 state to start out in.
730 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
731 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
732 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
733 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
734 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
737 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
738 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
739 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
740 some of the connection attempts fail.
741 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
742 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
743 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
744 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
745 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
746 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
748 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
749 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
750 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
753 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
754 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
755 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
756 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
757 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
758 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
759 and adds a variety of smaller features.
762 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
763 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
764 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
765 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
767 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
768 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
769 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
770 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
772 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
773 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
774 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
775 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
776 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
777 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
778 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
781 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
782 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
783 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
784 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
785 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
787 o Memory fixes and improvements:
788 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
789 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
790 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
791 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
792 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
793 on a typical directory cache.
794 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
795 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
796 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
797 and may reduce fragmentation.
798 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
799 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
800 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
802 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
803 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
804 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
806 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
807 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
811 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
812 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
813 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
814 done that for a long time.
815 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
816 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
817 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
818 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
821 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
822 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
823 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
824 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
825 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
826 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
828 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
829 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
830 output to messages of warning and error severity.
831 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
832 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
833 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
834 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
835 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
836 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
837 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
838 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
839 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
840 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
841 directory requests we should expect to see.
842 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
844 - Lots of new unit tests.
845 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
846 two parallel lists in lockstep.
849 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
850 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
851 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
854 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
855 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
856 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
857 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
858 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
859 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
860 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
863 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
864 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
865 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
869 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
870 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
871 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
874 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
875 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
876 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
878 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
879 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
881 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
882 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
883 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
884 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
885 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
886 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
887 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
889 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
890 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
891 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
892 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
893 - Fix compile on Windows.
896 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
897 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
898 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
899 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
900 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
901 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
902 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
905 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
906 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
909 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
910 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
911 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
912 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
914 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
915 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
916 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
919 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
920 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
921 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
922 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
926 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
927 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
928 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
929 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
931 o Major security fixes:
932 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
933 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
934 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
935 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
936 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
939 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
940 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
943 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
944 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
947 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
948 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
951 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
952 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
953 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
956 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
957 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
960 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
961 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
962 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
963 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
964 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
966 o New directory authorities:
967 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
968 it has been down for months.
969 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
973 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
974 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
976 o Minor features (security):
977 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
978 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
979 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
982 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
983 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
984 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
985 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
986 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
987 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
988 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
989 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
990 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
992 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
993 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
994 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
995 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
996 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
997 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
998 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
999 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
1000 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
1002 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1003 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
1004 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
1005 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
1006 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
1007 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
1008 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
1009 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
1010 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
1011 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
1012 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1013 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
1014 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
1015 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
1016 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
1017 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
1018 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
1019 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
1020 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
1023 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
1024 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1025 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
1026 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
1029 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
1030 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
1031 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
1032 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
1035 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
1036 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1037 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
1038 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
1039 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
1042 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
1043 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
1044 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
1045 certain censored countries by default again.
1048 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
1049 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1050 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
1051 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
1052 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1053 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
1054 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
1055 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
1057 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1058 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
1059 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
1060 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
1061 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
1062 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
1063 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
1064 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
1065 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
1066 a directory. Fix from lodger.
1068 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1069 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
1070 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
1071 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
1072 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
1073 RelayBandwidth* values.
1074 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
1075 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
1076 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
1077 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
1078 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
1079 get_interface_address6().
1080 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
1081 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
1082 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
1084 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1085 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
1086 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
1087 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1088 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
1089 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
1090 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1091 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
1092 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
1093 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1096 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
1097 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
1098 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
1101 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
1102 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1103 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
1104 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
1105 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
1108 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
1109 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
1110 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
1111 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
1112 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
1113 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
1114 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
1115 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
1116 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
1119 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
1120 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
1121 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
1122 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1125 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
1126 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1127 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
1128 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
1129 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
1130 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
1131 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
1134 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
1135 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
1136 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
1137 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
1138 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
1139 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
1140 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
1142 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
1143 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
1144 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
1145 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
1146 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
1149 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
1150 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
1152 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
1153 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
1154 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
1155 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1156 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
1157 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
1158 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
1159 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
1160 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
1161 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
1162 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
1163 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
1164 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1165 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
1166 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1167 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1168 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
1169 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
1170 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
1171 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
1172 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
1173 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
1174 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
1176 o Minor features (performance):
1177 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
1179 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
1180 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
1181 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
1182 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
1183 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
1184 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
1185 non-system include paths.
1186 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
1187 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
1190 o Minor features (other):
1191 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
1193 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
1194 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
1195 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
1198 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
1199 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
1200 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
1201 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
1203 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
1204 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
1205 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
1206 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
1208 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
1209 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
1210 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1211 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
1212 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1214 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1215 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
1216 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
1217 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
1218 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
1219 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
1220 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
1221 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
1222 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
1223 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
1224 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
1225 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
1226 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
1227 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
1228 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
1229 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1230 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
1231 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
1232 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
1233 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
1234 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
1235 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
1236 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
1237 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
1238 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
1241 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1242 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
1243 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
1247 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
1248 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
1249 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
1250 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
1251 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
1254 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
1255 Tor's x509 certificates.
1258 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
1259 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
1260 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1261 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
1262 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
1263 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1265 o Minor features (security):
1266 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
1267 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
1269 o Minor features (directory authority):
1270 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
1271 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
1272 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
1273 bandwidthburst values.
1275 o Minor features (controller):
1276 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
1277 processes from running us out of memory.
1279 o Minor features (misc):
1280 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
1281 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
1282 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
1283 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
1285 o Deprecated features (controller):
1286 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
1287 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
1288 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
1291 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
1292 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
1294 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
1295 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
1296 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1297 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
1298 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
1299 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1300 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
1301 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
1303 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
1304 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1305 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
1306 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1307 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
1308 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
1309 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
1310 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
1312 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
1313 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
1314 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
1315 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
1316 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1317 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
1318 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1319 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
1320 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1321 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
1322 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
1323 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1325 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1326 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
1328 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
1329 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
1330 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
1331 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
1332 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
1333 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
1336 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
1337 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
1338 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
1339 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
1340 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
1342 o New directory authorities:
1343 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
1347 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
1348 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
1349 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
1350 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
1351 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
1352 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
1353 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
1354 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
1358 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
1359 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
1360 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
1361 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
1362 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
1363 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
1364 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
1365 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
1366 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
1367 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
1370 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
1371 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
1372 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
1373 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
1377 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
1378 the request isn't encrypted.
1379 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
1380 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
1381 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
1382 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
1383 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
1386 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
1387 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
1390 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
1393 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
1394 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
1395 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
1397 o New directory authorities:
1398 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
1401 o Major performance improvements:
1402 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
1403 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
1404 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
1405 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
1406 memory fragmentation.
1409 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
1410 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
1411 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
1412 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
1413 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
1414 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
1415 bodies when they receive them.
1416 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
1417 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
1418 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
1420 o Minor performance improvements:
1421 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
1422 of them were actually distinct.
1423 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
1424 interested in a given message.
1427 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
1428 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
1429 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
1430 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
1431 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
1432 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
1433 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
1434 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
1435 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
1436 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
1437 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
1439 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
1440 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
1441 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
1442 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
1443 this country" and "1 person from this country".
1444 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
1445 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
1446 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
1447 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
1448 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
1450 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1451 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
1452 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
1454 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
1455 but client versions are not.
1456 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1457 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1459 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
1460 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
1461 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
1462 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
1463 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
1465 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
1466 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
1467 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
1470 o Minor features (controller):
1471 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
1472 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
1473 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
1474 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
1476 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1477 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
1478 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
1479 running a test network on a single host.
1480 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
1481 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
1483 o Minor features (bridges):
1484 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
1485 unencrypted connections.
1487 o Minor features (other):
1488 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
1489 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
1490 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
1491 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
1494 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
1495 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
1496 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
1497 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1500 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1501 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1502 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1503 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1507 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1508 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
1509 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1510 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
1511 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1512 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
1513 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1514 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1515 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
1516 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
1517 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
1518 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
1521 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1522 rebuild our server descriptor.
1523 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1524 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
1525 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
1526 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1527 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1528 nonstandard integer types.
1529 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1530 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1531 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
1532 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
1533 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
1535 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
1536 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
1537 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
1538 when they receive them.
1539 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
1540 This includes some 64-bit systems.
1541 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
1542 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
1543 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
1544 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
1545 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1546 router_get_by_hexdigest().
1547 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1548 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1552 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
1553 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
1554 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1557 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
1558 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
1559 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
1560 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
1561 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
1562 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
1563 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
1564 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1567 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
1568 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
1569 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
1570 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
1572 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
1573 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
1576 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
1577 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
1580 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
1582 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
1583 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
1585 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
1586 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
1587 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
1588 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1589 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
1590 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
1591 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
1592 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1593 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
1594 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
1598 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
1599 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
1600 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
1603 - Make the unit tests build again.
1604 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
1605 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
1606 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
1607 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
1608 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
1609 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1610 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
1611 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
1612 the next one as a duplicate.
1615 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
1616 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
1617 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
1618 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
1621 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
1622 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
1623 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
1626 o New directory authorities:
1627 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
1631 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
1632 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
1633 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
1634 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
1635 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
1636 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1637 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
1639 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
1640 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
1642 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1643 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1644 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
1645 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
1646 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
1647 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
1649 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
1650 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
1651 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1652 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
1653 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
1654 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1657 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
1658 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
1659 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
1660 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
1661 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
1662 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
1663 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
1664 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
1665 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
1666 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
1667 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
1668 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
1669 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
1670 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
1671 where Tor is blocked.
1672 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
1673 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
1674 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
1675 to a file periodically.
1676 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
1677 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
1678 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
1682 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
1683 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
1684 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
1685 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
1686 in the relevant networkstatus document.
1687 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
1688 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
1689 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1690 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
1691 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
1692 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
1693 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
1695 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
1696 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
1697 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
1698 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
1699 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
1700 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1701 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
1702 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
1703 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
1704 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1705 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
1706 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
1707 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
1708 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1709 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1710 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
1711 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
1712 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1713 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1714 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1715 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1716 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
1717 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1718 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
1719 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
1720 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1721 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
1722 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1725 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
1726 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
1727 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
1728 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
1729 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
1730 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
1731 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
1732 even if your DirPort isn't on.
1733 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
1734 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
1735 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
1737 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
1738 multiple controller passwords.
1739 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
1740 router based on the router's purpose.
1741 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
1742 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
1743 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
1744 the approved-routers file.
1747 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
1748 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
1749 well as a few minor bugs.
1752 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
1753 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
1754 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
1756 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1757 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1758 rebuild our server descriptor.
1760 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1761 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
1762 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
1763 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
1764 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
1765 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
1766 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
1767 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
1768 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
1769 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
1771 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
1772 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
1773 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
1774 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
1775 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
1776 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
1777 then be flexible about families.
1780 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
1781 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
1782 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
1786 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
1787 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
1788 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
1789 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
1790 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
1793 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1794 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1795 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1796 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1797 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1800 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1801 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
1803 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
1804 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
1805 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
1806 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
1807 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
1808 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
1809 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1811 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
1812 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
1813 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
1814 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
1817 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
1818 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
1821 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
1822 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
1823 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1826 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
1827 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
1828 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
1829 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
1830 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
1831 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
1832 addresses many more minor issues.
1834 o New directory authorities:
1835 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
1838 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
1839 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
1840 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
1841 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
1843 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
1844 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
1845 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
1846 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
1847 and are reaching it.
1848 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
1849 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
1850 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
1851 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
1852 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
1853 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
1856 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
1857 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
1859 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
1860 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
1861 no longer work for clients.
1862 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1863 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
1865 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
1866 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
1867 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
1868 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
1869 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
1870 enough directory information to build a circuit.
1871 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
1872 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
1873 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
1874 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
1875 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
1876 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
1878 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
1879 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
1880 requests for all of them.
1881 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
1883 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
1884 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
1885 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
1888 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
1889 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
1893 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
1894 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
1895 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
1896 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
1897 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
1898 networkstatuses that we already have.
1899 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
1900 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
1901 we start knowing some directory caches.
1902 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
1903 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
1904 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
1905 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
1906 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
1907 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
1908 Good in combination with --hash-password.
1909 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
1910 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
1912 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
1913 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
1914 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
1916 o Minor features (bridges):
1917 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
1918 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
1919 back to trying the bridge directly.
1920 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
1921 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
1923 o Minor features (controller):
1924 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
1925 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
1926 report the value as a "minimum skew."
1929 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
1930 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
1934 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
1935 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
1936 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
1937 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
1938 reported by tup and ioerror.
1939 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
1940 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
1942 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1943 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1945 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1946 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
1947 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
1949 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
1950 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1951 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
1952 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1953 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
1954 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1955 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
1957 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
1958 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
1959 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1961 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
1962 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
1963 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
1964 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
1965 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
1968 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
1969 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
1970 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
1971 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
1972 lists for a few hours each day.
1974 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1975 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1976 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1977 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
1978 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
1979 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1980 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1981 rend_process_relay_cell().
1983 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1984 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1985 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1986 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1987 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1988 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1989 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
1990 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
1992 o Major bugfixes (other):
1993 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
1994 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
1995 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
1996 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1997 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1998 circuit cannibalization).
1999 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2000 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2001 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2002 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2003 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2004 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
2007 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
2008 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
2010 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
2011 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
2012 absent. Resolves bug 467.
2013 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
2014 a way to trigger this remotely.)
2015 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
2016 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
2017 were reporting the dir port.)
2018 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
2019 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
2020 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2021 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2022 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2024 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2025 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2026 the onion key from getting rotated.
2027 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
2028 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
2029 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
2030 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
2031 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
2032 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2033 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2034 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
2035 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
2038 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
2039 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
2040 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
2041 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
2042 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
2043 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
2045 o Major features (directory system):
2046 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
2047 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
2048 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
2049 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
2050 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
2051 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
2052 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
2053 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
2054 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
2055 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
2056 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
2057 Partially implements proposal 122.
2058 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
2059 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
2062 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
2063 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
2064 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
2065 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
2067 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2068 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2069 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2070 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2071 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2072 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2073 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
2074 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
2075 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2077 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
2078 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
2080 - Allow certificates to include an address.
2081 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
2082 and download operations.
2083 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
2084 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
2085 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
2086 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
2087 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
2088 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
2090 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
2091 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
2094 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
2095 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
2096 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
2097 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
2099 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
2100 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
2101 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
2103 o Minor features (performance):
2104 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
2105 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
2106 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
2107 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
2108 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
2109 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
2110 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
2113 o Minor features (compilation):
2114 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
2115 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
2117 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2118 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
2119 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
2120 stick around indefinitely.
2121 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
2123 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
2124 v3 directory authority.
2125 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
2126 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
2128 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
2129 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
2130 "moria on moria:9031."
2131 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
2132 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
2133 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
2134 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
2135 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
2136 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
2137 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
2138 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
2140 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2141 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
2142 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
2143 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
2144 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
2145 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
2146 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
2147 downloads than for other types.
2149 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
2150 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
2152 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
2153 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
2154 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2156 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2157 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2158 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2159 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
2160 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
2161 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
2162 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
2163 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
2165 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2166 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
2167 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
2168 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
2169 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2170 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
2171 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
2172 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2173 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
2174 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
2175 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
2177 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
2178 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
2181 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2182 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
2183 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
2184 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
2185 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
2186 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
2187 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
2188 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
2189 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
2190 so that they all take the same named flags.
2193 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
2194 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
2195 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
2198 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
2199 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
2200 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
2201 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
2202 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
2203 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
2205 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
2206 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
2207 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
2208 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
2209 annotations along with descriptors.
2210 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
2211 source, and its purpose.
2212 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
2214 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
2215 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
2216 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
2217 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
2220 o Major features (directory authorities):
2221 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
2223 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
2224 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
2225 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
2226 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
2227 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
2228 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
2230 o Major features (v3 directory system):
2231 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
2232 and download the descriptors listed in them.
2233 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
2234 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
2235 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
2237 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2238 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
2239 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
2240 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
2243 o Major bugfixes (performance):
2244 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
2245 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
2246 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
2247 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
2249 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
2250 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
2251 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
2252 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
2253 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
2254 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2256 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
2257 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
2259 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
2260 certificate is requested.
2261 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
2262 certificate requests.
2264 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
2265 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
2266 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
2267 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
2270 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2271 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
2272 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
2273 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2275 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
2276 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
2278 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
2279 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
2280 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2281 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
2282 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
2283 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
2284 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
2285 downloads more sensible.
2286 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
2287 another when serving certificates.
2289 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2290 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
2291 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
2292 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
2294 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
2295 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2296 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
2298 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
2299 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2301 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2302 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
2303 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
2304 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
2305 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2307 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2308 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
2309 WARN-severity events.
2310 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
2311 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
2312 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
2314 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
2315 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
2316 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
2318 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
2319 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
2320 circuit cannibalization).
2322 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2323 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
2324 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
2325 new module, networkstatus.c.
2326 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
2327 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
2328 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
2329 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
2330 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
2331 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
2332 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
2333 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
2334 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
2336 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
2338 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
2339 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2342 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
2343 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
2344 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
2345 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
2347 o New directory authorities:
2348 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
2349 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
2351 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2352 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
2353 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2355 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2356 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
2357 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
2358 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
2359 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2360 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
2361 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
2362 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
2363 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
2364 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
2365 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2367 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2368 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
2369 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
2370 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
2371 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
2372 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
2373 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
2374 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
2375 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
2377 o Minor features (security):
2378 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
2379 address maps to an internal address space.
2380 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
2381 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
2383 o Minor features (guard nodes):
2384 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
2385 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
2386 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
2387 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
2389 o Minor features (speed):
2390 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
2391 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
2392 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
2393 on big-endian hosts.)
2395 o Minor features (controller):
2396 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
2397 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
2398 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
2399 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
2403 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
2404 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
2405 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
2406 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
2407 implementation of proposal 104.
2408 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
2409 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
2410 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
2411 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
2412 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
2413 patch from Karsten Loesing.
2414 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
2415 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
2418 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
2419 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
2420 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2421 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
2422 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2423 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
2424 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2425 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
2426 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
2427 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2428 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
2429 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
2430 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
2431 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2432 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
2433 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
2434 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
2435 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2436 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
2437 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
2439 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2440 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
2441 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
2443 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
2444 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
2445 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
2446 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
2449 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
2450 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
2451 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
2452 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
2453 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
2456 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
2457 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
2460 o Major bugfixes (security):
2461 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
2462 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
2463 become more of a headache than it's worth.
2465 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
2466 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
2467 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
2469 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
2470 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
2471 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
2472 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
2473 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
2474 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
2476 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
2477 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
2478 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
2479 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2480 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
2482 o Minor features (controller):
2483 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2484 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2485 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2486 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
2488 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2489 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
2490 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
2491 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2492 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
2493 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
2494 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
2495 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2497 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2498 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2499 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2500 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
2501 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2502 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2503 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2504 if we ran off the end of the list.
2505 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
2506 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
2507 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
2508 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
2509 every time we change any piece of our config.
2510 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
2511 encourage people using them to stop.
2512 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
2514 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
2515 servers to choose a circuit.
2516 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
2517 unparseable piece of it.
2520 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
2521 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
2522 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
2523 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
2526 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
2527 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
2528 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
2529 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
2530 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
2532 o New directory authorities:
2533 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
2536 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
2537 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
2538 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
2539 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
2541 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
2542 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
2543 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
2545 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
2546 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
2547 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
2548 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
2549 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
2550 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
2552 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
2553 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
2554 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2557 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
2558 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
2559 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
2560 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
2564 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
2565 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
2566 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
2567 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
2569 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
2570 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
2572 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
2573 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
2574 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
2575 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
2576 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
2577 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
2578 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2579 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
2580 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2581 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
2584 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
2585 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
2586 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
2587 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
2588 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
2589 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
2592 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
2593 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
2594 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
2595 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
2598 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
2599 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
2600 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
2601 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
2602 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
2605 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
2606 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
2607 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
2608 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2609 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
2612 o Minor features (directory servers):
2613 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
2614 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
2616 o Minor features (directory voting):
2617 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
2620 o Minor features (security):
2621 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
2622 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
2623 encourage people using them to stop.
2625 o Minor features (controller):
2626 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2627 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2628 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2629 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
2630 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
2631 cookie authentication file, and config option
2632 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
2634 o Minor features (unit testing):
2635 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
2636 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
2637 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
2638 logging for the unit tests.
2640 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2641 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
2642 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
2643 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
2644 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
2645 every time we change any piece of our config.
2646 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2647 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2648 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2650 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2651 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2652 the onion key from getting rotated.
2653 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
2654 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
2655 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
2658 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2659 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
2660 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
2662 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
2663 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
2664 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
2665 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
2668 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
2669 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
2670 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
2671 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
2672 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
2673 TorK, etc. Or worse.
2675 o Major security fixes:
2676 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2677 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2680 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
2681 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
2682 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
2683 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2685 o Major security fixes:
2686 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2687 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2689 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2690 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
2693 o Minor features (performance):
2694 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
2695 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
2696 performance-intensive.
2697 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2698 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
2699 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
2700 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
2701 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2702 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
2706 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
2707 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
2708 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
2709 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
2713 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
2714 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
2715 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
2716 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
2717 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
2719 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
2720 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
2721 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
2722 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
2724 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
2725 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
2726 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
2727 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
2728 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
2730 o Major features (experimental):
2731 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
2732 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
2733 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
2734 handling before it's ready for use.
2737 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
2738 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
2739 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
2740 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2741 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
2742 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
2744 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
2745 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
2746 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
2747 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
2748 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
2750 o Major bugfixes (directory):
2751 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
2752 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2754 o Minor features (controller):
2755 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
2756 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2757 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
2759 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
2761 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
2762 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
2764 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
2765 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
2766 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
2767 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
2768 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2769 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
2770 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
2773 o Minor features (misc):
2774 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
2776 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
2777 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
2778 the authority identity key.
2779 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
2781 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
2782 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
2783 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
2786 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
2787 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2788 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2789 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
2790 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2791 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2792 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2793 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2795 o Performance improvements:
2796 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
2798 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
2799 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
2802 o Deprecated and removed features:
2803 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
2804 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
2805 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
2806 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
2808 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2809 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
2810 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2811 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
2812 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
2813 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2814 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
2815 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
2816 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
2819 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2820 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
2821 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2822 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
2823 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
2825 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
2826 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
2829 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2830 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
2831 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
2832 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
2833 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
2834 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
2835 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
2836 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
2837 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
2840 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
2841 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
2842 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
2843 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
2845 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2846 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
2848 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2849 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
2850 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
2851 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
2852 routerlist while inserting a new router.
2853 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
2854 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
2856 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
2857 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
2858 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
2860 o Major bugfixes (security):
2861 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
2863 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
2864 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
2865 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
2866 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
2867 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
2868 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
2869 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
2870 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
2871 guard list unless we need to.
2873 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
2874 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
2875 don't get overused as guards.
2877 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2878 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
2879 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
2880 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
2881 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
2883 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2884 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
2885 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2889 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2890 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
2891 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
2892 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
2893 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
2894 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
2895 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
2898 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
2899 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
2900 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
2901 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
2903 o Minor features (directory):
2904 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
2905 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
2906 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
2907 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
2909 o Minor build issues:
2910 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
2911 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
2912 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
2913 in the tarball, not as "x".
2916 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
2917 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
2918 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
2919 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
2920 forward on a lot of fronts.
2922 o Major features, server usability:
2923 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
2924 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
2925 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
2926 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
2928 o Major features, client usability:
2929 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
2930 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
2931 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
2932 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
2933 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
2934 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
2935 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
2936 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
2938 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
2939 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
2940 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
2941 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
2942 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
2943 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
2945 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
2946 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
2947 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
2949 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
2950 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
2951 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
2952 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
2953 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
2955 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
2956 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
2957 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
2958 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
2960 o Major features, other:
2961 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
2962 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
2963 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
2964 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
2965 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
2968 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
2969 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
2970 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
2973 o Minor fixes (resource management):
2974 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
2975 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
2976 our allocated connection limit.
2977 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
2978 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
2979 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
2980 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
2981 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
2983 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
2984 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
2985 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
2987 o Minor features (build):
2988 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
2989 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
2990 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
2991 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
2993 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
2994 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
2995 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
2996 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
2997 Use this version consistently in log messages.
2999 o Minor features (logging):
3000 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
3001 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
3002 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
3003 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
3004 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
3007 o Minor features (directory system):
3008 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
3009 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
3010 not to serve V2 directory information.
3011 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
3012 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
3013 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
3015 o Minor features (controller):
3016 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
3017 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
3019 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
3020 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
3021 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
3022 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
3023 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
3024 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
3026 o Minor features (hidden services):
3027 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
3028 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
3029 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
3030 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
3032 o Minor features (other):
3034 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
3035 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
3036 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
3037 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
3038 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
3039 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
3040 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
3041 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
3042 longer a completely silly thing to do.
3043 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
3044 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
3045 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
3046 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
3049 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
3050 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
3051 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
3052 back an error and close the connection.
3053 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
3054 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
3057 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3058 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
3059 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
3060 makes the log messages nicer.
3061 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
3062 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3063 partial results on small file reads.
3065 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3066 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
3067 more often than they are allowed to appear.
3068 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
3069 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
3071 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3072 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
3073 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
3074 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
3076 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3077 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
3078 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
3079 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
3080 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
3081 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
3082 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
3083 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
3084 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
3085 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
3086 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
3088 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
3089 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
3090 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
3092 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3093 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
3094 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
3095 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3098 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
3099 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
3101 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
3102 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
3105 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3106 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
3107 implicit in other procedure arguments.
3108 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
3109 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
3110 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
3111 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
3112 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
3113 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
3114 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
3115 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
3116 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
3119 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
3120 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
3121 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
3122 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
3124 o Directory authority changes:
3125 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
3126 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
3127 or use hidden services.
3129 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3130 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
3131 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
3132 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
3133 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
3134 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
3135 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
3136 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
3137 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
3140 o Major bugfixes (security):
3141 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
3142 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
3143 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
3145 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
3146 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
3147 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
3148 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
3149 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
3150 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
3151 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
3152 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
3153 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
3154 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
3157 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
3159 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
3160 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
3162 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
3163 having a hard time downloading.
3164 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3165 partial results on small file reads.
3166 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
3167 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
3168 the gaps in the store get very large.
3171 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
3172 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
3174 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
3175 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
3178 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
3179 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
3180 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
3181 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
3182 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
3183 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
3185 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
3186 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
3187 free speech on the Internet.
3190 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
3191 get one we don't recognize.
3192 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3193 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
3196 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
3198 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
3199 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
3200 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
3201 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
3204 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
3205 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
3208 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
3209 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
3210 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
3211 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
3212 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
3213 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
3217 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
3218 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
3219 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
3220 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
3221 on Win98 and friends again.
3223 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3224 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
3225 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
3228 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
3229 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
3230 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
3231 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
3232 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
3233 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
3234 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
3235 and maybe also bug 397.)
3237 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3238 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
3239 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
3241 o Minor bugfixes (server):
3242 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
3245 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3246 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
3247 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
3248 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
3249 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
3251 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3252 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
3253 load on authorities.
3255 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3256 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
3257 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
3258 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
3260 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
3262 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
3263 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
3264 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
3265 the last of bug 326.)
3266 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
3267 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
3271 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
3272 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3273 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
3274 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
3275 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
3276 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
3277 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
3279 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
3280 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
3282 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3283 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
3284 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
3286 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
3287 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
3288 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
3290 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3291 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
3292 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
3293 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
3295 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
3296 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
3298 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
3299 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
3300 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
3303 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3304 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
3305 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
3306 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
3307 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
3308 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
3309 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
3310 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
3311 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
3312 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
3313 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
3314 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
3315 other than file-not-found.
3316 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
3317 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
3318 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
3319 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
3320 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
3321 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
3322 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
3323 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
3324 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
3325 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
3326 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
3327 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
3328 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
3329 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
3330 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
3332 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
3334 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
3335 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
3337 o Minor features (controller):
3338 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
3339 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
3340 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
3342 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
3343 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3344 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
3345 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
3346 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
3347 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
3348 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
3349 connected or resolved cell.
3351 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3352 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
3353 some profiles, but not others.)
3354 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
3355 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
3356 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
3359 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
3361 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
3362 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
3363 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
3364 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
3365 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
3366 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
3367 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
3368 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
3369 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
3370 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
3371 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
3372 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
3373 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
3374 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
3375 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
3377 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
3380 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
3381 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
3382 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
3383 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
3384 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
3385 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
3386 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
3388 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
3389 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
3390 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
3391 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
3392 buckets go absurdly negative.
3393 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
3394 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
3397 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
3398 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
3399 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
3400 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
3401 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
3402 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
3403 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
3404 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
3407 o Major bugfixes (other):
3408 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
3409 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
3410 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
3411 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
3413 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
3415 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
3416 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
3418 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
3419 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
3420 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
3421 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
3422 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
3425 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
3426 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
3427 possible memory-stomping bugs.
3428 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
3429 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
3431 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
3432 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
3433 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
3434 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
3435 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
3436 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
3438 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3439 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
3440 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
3441 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
3443 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
3444 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
3445 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
3446 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
3447 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
3448 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
3449 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
3450 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
3451 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
3452 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
3453 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
3454 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
3455 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
3457 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
3458 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
3459 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
3460 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
3461 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
3462 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
3463 to the resulting address.
3466 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
3467 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
3468 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
3469 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
3472 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
3473 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
3475 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
3476 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
3477 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
3478 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
3479 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
3480 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
3481 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
3482 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
3483 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
3484 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
3485 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
3486 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
3487 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
3488 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
3489 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
3490 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
3491 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
3494 o Minor features (controller):
3495 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
3496 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
3497 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
3498 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
3499 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
3500 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
3501 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
3505 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
3507 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
3508 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
3509 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
3510 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
3511 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
3512 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
3515 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
3516 weren't planning to resolve.
3517 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
3518 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
3519 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
3520 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
3521 the controller from learning about current events.
3523 o Minor features (more controller status events):
3524 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
3525 learn when our address changes.
3526 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
3527 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
3528 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
3529 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
3531 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
3532 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
3533 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
3534 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
3535 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
3536 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
3537 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
3538 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
3539 are accepted by a directory.
3540 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
3541 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
3542 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
3543 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
3544 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
3546 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
3547 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
3548 about changes to DNS server status.
3550 o Minor features (directory):
3551 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
3552 too much load to the exit nodes.
3555 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
3557 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
3558 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
3559 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
3560 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
3561 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
3563 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
3564 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
3565 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
3567 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
3568 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
3569 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
3570 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
3571 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
3572 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
3573 config options if you like.
3575 o Minor features (config and docs):
3576 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
3577 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
3578 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
3579 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
3580 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
3582 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
3583 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
3584 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
3585 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
3586 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
3588 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
3589 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
3590 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
3591 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
3592 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
3593 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
3594 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
3595 documentation: "make check-docs".
3596 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
3597 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
3599 o Minor features (DNS):
3600 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
3601 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
3602 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
3603 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
3604 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
3605 our tests for DNS hijacking.
3607 o Minor features (directory):
3608 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
3609 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
3610 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
3611 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
3612 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
3613 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
3614 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
3615 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
3616 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
3617 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
3618 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
3619 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
3620 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
3621 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
3622 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
3623 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
3624 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
3625 for the thing we're trying to download.
3626 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
3627 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
3628 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
3630 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
3631 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
3632 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
3635 o Minor features (controller):
3636 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
3637 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
3639 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
3640 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
3641 entry guard status as it changes.
3643 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
3644 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
3645 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
3646 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
3648 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
3649 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
3650 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
3651 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
3654 o Major bugfixes (security):
3655 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3656 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3657 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3658 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3660 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
3661 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
3662 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
3663 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
3664 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
3666 o Major bugfixes (other):
3667 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
3668 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
3669 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
3670 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
3672 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
3673 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
3674 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
3675 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
3676 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
3677 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
3681 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3682 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3683 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
3684 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
3685 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
3687 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
3688 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
3690 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
3691 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
3692 family lists conveniently.
3693 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
3694 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
3695 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
3697 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
3698 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
3700 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
3701 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
3702 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
3703 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
3704 if their identity keys are as expected.
3705 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
3706 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
3707 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
3709 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3710 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
3711 reported by Mike Perry.
3712 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
3713 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
3714 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
3715 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
3718 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
3719 o Security bugfixes:
3720 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3721 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3722 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3723 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3727 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3728 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3729 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
3732 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
3734 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
3735 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
3736 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
3739 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
3740 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
3741 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
3742 watching for STREAM events.
3743 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
3744 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
3745 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
3746 operations, for profiling.
3749 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
3750 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
3751 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
3752 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
3753 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
3754 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
3756 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
3760 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3761 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3762 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
3763 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
3764 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
3766 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
3767 correctly in the Windows installer.
3768 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3769 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3770 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
3772 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
3773 when we're running as a client.
3776 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
3778 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
3779 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
3780 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
3781 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
3782 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3783 its circuits on demand.
3784 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
3785 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
3786 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
3787 connections more stable on average.
3788 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3789 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3790 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3792 o Security bugfixes:
3793 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3794 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3797 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3799 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
3800 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
3801 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3802 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3803 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3804 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3805 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3806 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3809 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
3811 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
3812 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
3813 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
3814 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
3815 routers for even longer.
3816 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
3817 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
3818 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
3819 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
3820 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
3821 caching HTTP proxies.
3822 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
3825 o Minor features, controller:
3826 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
3827 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
3828 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
3829 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
3831 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
3832 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
3833 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
3834 working much like those for circuit events.
3835 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
3836 about the current status of a router.
3837 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
3838 a router's status has changed.
3839 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
3840 can tell which events and features are supported.
3841 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
3842 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
3844 o Security bugfixes:
3845 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3846 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3849 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
3850 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
3851 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
3852 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
3853 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3854 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
3855 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
3856 long nicknames where appropriate.
3857 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
3858 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
3859 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
3860 chews through many circuits before giving up.
3861 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
3862 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
3863 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
3864 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
3865 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
3866 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
3868 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
3869 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
3870 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
3872 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
3873 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
3874 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
3875 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
3876 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
3877 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
3878 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
3879 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
3880 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
3881 (reported by fookoowa).
3882 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
3883 and reported by some Centos users.
3884 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
3885 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
3886 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
3887 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
3888 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
3889 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
3890 before we check for libevent.
3893 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
3895 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
3896 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
3897 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
3898 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
3899 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
3900 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
3901 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
3902 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
3903 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
3904 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
3905 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
3906 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
3907 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
3908 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
3909 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
3910 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
3911 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
3912 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
3913 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
3914 lets you turn it off.
3915 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
3916 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
3917 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
3918 us into the directory more quickly.
3920 o New/improved config options:
3921 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
3922 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
3923 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
3924 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
3925 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
3926 all the machines on the same subnet.
3927 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
3928 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
3929 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
3930 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
3931 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
3932 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
3933 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
3934 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
3935 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
3936 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
3938 o Minor features, controller:
3939 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
3940 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
3941 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
3942 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
3943 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
3944 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
3945 for more information.
3946 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
3947 best guess to the user.
3948 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
3949 descriptor has changed.
3950 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
3952 o Minor features, other:
3953 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
3954 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
3955 useful to the network.
3956 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
3957 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
3958 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
3959 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
3960 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
3961 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
3962 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
3963 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
3964 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
3965 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
3966 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
3967 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
3968 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
3969 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
3970 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
3972 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
3973 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
3974 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
3975 could return an unnamed server instead.
3976 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
3977 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
3978 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
3979 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
3980 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
3981 a more attractive target for compromise.)
3982 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
3983 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
3984 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
3986 o Major bugfixes, other:
3987 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
3988 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
3989 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
3990 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
3991 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3992 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3993 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
3994 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3995 its circuits on demand.
3996 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
3997 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3998 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3999 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
4001 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
4002 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4003 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4005 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
4007 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
4008 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
4009 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
4010 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
4011 "extendcircuit" request.
4012 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4013 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4014 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
4016 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
4017 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
4018 instead of "X resolved to X".
4019 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
4020 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
4021 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
4022 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
4023 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
4024 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
4025 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
4026 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
4027 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
4029 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
4030 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
4031 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
4032 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
4033 result more than once.
4034 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
4035 non-versioning dirservers.
4036 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
4037 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
4039 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
4040 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
4041 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
4042 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
4043 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
4044 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
4045 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
4046 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
4047 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
4049 o Packaging, features:
4050 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
4051 now universal binaries.
4052 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
4053 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
4054 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
4056 o Packaging, bugfixes:
4057 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
4058 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
4059 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
4060 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
4062 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
4063 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
4064 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
4067 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
4068 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
4069 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
4073 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
4075 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
4076 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
4077 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
4078 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
4079 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
4080 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
4081 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
4082 it can't resolve its hostname.
4085 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4086 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
4087 "extendcircuit" request.
4088 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4089 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4090 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4091 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4093 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
4094 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
4095 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
4097 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
4098 methods: these are known to be buggy.
4099 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4100 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4104 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
4106 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
4107 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
4108 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
4109 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
4110 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
4111 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
4112 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
4113 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
4114 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
4115 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
4116 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
4117 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
4118 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
4119 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
4120 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
4121 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
4122 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
4123 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
4124 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
4125 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
4126 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
4127 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
4128 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
4129 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
4132 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
4133 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
4134 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
4135 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
4136 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
4137 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
4138 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
4139 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
4140 recommendation system saner.)
4141 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
4143 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
4144 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
4145 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
4146 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
4147 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
4148 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
4149 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
4150 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
4151 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
4152 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
4153 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
4154 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
4156 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
4157 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
4158 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
4159 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
4160 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
4161 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
4162 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
4163 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
4164 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
4165 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
4166 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
4167 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
4169 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
4170 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
4171 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
4172 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
4173 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
4174 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
4177 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
4178 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
4179 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
4180 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
4181 our DirPort now, etc.
4182 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4183 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
4184 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
4185 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
4186 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
4187 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4188 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4190 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
4191 whether the config options are bad or good.
4192 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
4193 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
4194 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
4195 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
4196 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
4197 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
4198 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
4199 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
4202 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
4203 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
4204 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
4205 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
4206 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
4207 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
4208 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
4209 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
4210 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
4211 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
4212 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
4213 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
4214 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
4215 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
4216 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
4217 of it), is not therefore "up".
4218 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
4219 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
4220 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
4221 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
4222 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
4223 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
4226 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
4228 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
4229 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
4230 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
4231 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
4232 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
4233 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
4234 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
4235 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
4236 test reachability, so you won't publish.
4239 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
4240 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
4241 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
4242 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
4243 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
4245 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
4246 own server descriptor yet.
4249 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
4251 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
4252 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
4253 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
4254 make sure to test via one of these.
4255 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
4256 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
4257 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
4258 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
4259 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
4261 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
4262 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
4263 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
4266 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
4267 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
4268 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
4269 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
4270 directory authority.
4271 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
4272 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
4273 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
4274 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
4277 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
4278 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
4279 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
4281 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
4282 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
4283 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
4284 current guards when picking a new guard.
4285 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
4286 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
4287 when we had more than one pending.
4288 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
4289 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
4290 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
4291 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
4292 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
4293 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
4294 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
4295 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
4296 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
4297 debug the reachability problems better.
4299 o Log / documentation fixes:
4300 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
4301 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
4302 about protocol violations by others.
4303 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
4304 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
4305 about what happened to our old torrc.
4308 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
4310 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
4312 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
4313 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
4314 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
4315 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
4318 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
4320 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
4321 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
4322 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
4323 old ORPort and receive connections.
4324 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
4326 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
4327 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
4328 and network-statuses.
4329 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
4330 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
4331 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
4332 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
4334 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
4337 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
4338 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
4339 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
4342 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
4344 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
4345 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
4346 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
4347 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
4348 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
4351 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
4352 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
4354 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
4355 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
4356 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
4357 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
4358 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
4359 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
4360 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
4361 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
4362 rather than not sending anything back at all.
4363 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
4364 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
4365 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
4366 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
4367 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
4368 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
4369 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
4370 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
4371 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
4372 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
4373 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
4374 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
4375 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
4376 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
4377 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
4378 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
4379 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
4380 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
4381 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
4382 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
4383 default ulimit -n is 1024.
4386 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
4387 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
4388 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
4389 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
4392 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
4394 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
4395 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
4396 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
4397 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
4398 entry guards running these flawed versions.
4399 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
4400 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
4401 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
4402 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
4403 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
4406 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
4407 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
4409 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
4410 and it is confusing some users.
4411 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
4412 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
4413 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
4414 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
4415 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
4418 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
4420 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
4421 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
4422 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
4423 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
4424 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
4425 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
4426 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
4427 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
4428 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
4429 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
4430 dirport is set for now.
4432 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
4433 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
4434 unattached before we fail it?
4435 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
4436 at least this many seconds ago.
4437 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
4438 at least this many seconds ago.
4441 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
4442 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
4443 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
4444 or resolve-wait stream.
4445 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
4446 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
4447 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
4448 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
4449 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
4450 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
4451 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
4452 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
4454 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
4455 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
4456 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
4457 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
4458 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
4459 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
4460 given as hex digests.
4461 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
4462 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
4463 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
4464 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
4465 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
4466 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
4467 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
4468 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
4471 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4472 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
4473 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
4474 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
4475 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
4476 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
4477 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
4478 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
4479 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
4480 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
4481 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
4484 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
4485 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
4486 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
4487 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
4488 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
4489 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
4490 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
4493 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
4494 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
4495 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
4496 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
4497 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
4498 misreading their logs.
4499 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
4500 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
4501 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
4502 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
4503 valid router descriptors.
4504 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
4505 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
4506 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
4507 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
4508 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
4509 silently resetting it to its default.
4510 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
4512 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
4515 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
4517 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
4518 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
4519 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
4520 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
4521 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
4523 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
4524 because older Tors do not understand it.
4525 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
4529 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
4530 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4531 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
4532 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
4533 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
4534 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
4535 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
4536 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
4537 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
4538 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
4539 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
4541 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
4542 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
4543 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
4544 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
4546 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
4547 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
4550 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
4551 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
4552 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4553 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4554 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4555 without getting overloaded.
4556 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
4558 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
4559 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
4560 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
4561 be forward-compatible.
4562 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
4563 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
4564 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
4565 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
4567 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
4568 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
4569 and OR conns to port 443.
4570 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
4571 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
4573 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
4574 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
4575 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
4576 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
4577 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
4578 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
4579 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
4582 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
4583 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4584 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
4585 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
4587 o Other important bugfixes:
4588 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4589 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4590 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4591 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4593 o Backported features:
4594 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4595 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4596 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4597 without getting overloaded.
4598 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
4599 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
4600 503's whenever they feel busy.
4601 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
4602 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
4603 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
4604 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
4605 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
4608 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
4609 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4610 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
4611 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
4612 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
4613 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
4614 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
4615 know if the crashes continue.
4616 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
4617 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
4618 seg faults in at least some cases.)
4619 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
4620 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
4621 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
4624 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
4625 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
4626 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
4627 try to be a bit more fair.
4628 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
4629 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
4630 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
4631 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
4632 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
4633 bug that let it go negative.
4634 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
4635 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
4636 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
4637 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
4638 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4639 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4640 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4641 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4642 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
4643 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
4644 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
4647 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
4649 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
4650 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
4651 service descriptors.
4654 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
4655 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
4656 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
4657 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
4659 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
4660 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
4661 versions *are* still recommended.
4662 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
4663 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
4664 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
4665 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
4666 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
4667 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
4668 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
4669 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
4671 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
4672 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
4673 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
4674 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
4675 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
4676 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
4677 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
4678 on it. Not used by clients yet.
4679 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
4680 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
4681 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
4682 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
4683 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
4684 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
4685 established a circuit.
4686 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
4687 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
4688 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
4689 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
4692 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
4693 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4694 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
4695 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
4696 quickly enough. Oops.
4697 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
4699 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4700 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
4703 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
4704 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4705 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
4706 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
4707 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
4708 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
4709 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
4710 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
4711 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
4712 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
4713 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
4714 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
4715 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
4716 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
4717 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
4718 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
4719 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
4722 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
4723 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
4724 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
4725 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
4726 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
4727 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
4728 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
4729 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
4730 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
4731 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
4732 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
4733 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
4734 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
4735 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
4736 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
4737 connections more reliable.
4740 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
4741 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
4742 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
4743 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
4744 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
4745 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
4746 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
4747 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
4748 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
4749 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
4750 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
4751 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
4752 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
4753 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
4757 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
4758 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
4759 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
4760 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
4761 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
4762 need to be uint64_t's.
4763 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
4764 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
4765 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
4767 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
4769 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
4770 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
4771 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
4772 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
4773 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
4774 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
4775 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
4777 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
4778 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
4779 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
4780 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
4781 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
4782 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
4783 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
4784 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
4785 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
4786 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
4787 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
4788 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
4789 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
4792 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
4793 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
4794 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
4795 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
4796 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
4797 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
4798 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
4800 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
4801 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
4802 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
4803 can answer v2 directory requests too.
4804 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
4805 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
4806 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
4807 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
4809 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
4810 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
4811 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
4812 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
4813 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
4814 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
4815 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
4816 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
4817 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
4818 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
4819 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
4820 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
4821 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
4822 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
4823 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
4825 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
4826 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
4829 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
4830 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4831 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4832 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4833 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4834 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
4835 too -- so detect and avoid this.
4836 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
4838 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
4839 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4840 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4841 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
4842 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
4843 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4844 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4845 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
4846 rendezvous circuits.
4847 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
4849 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4850 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
4851 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
4852 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
4853 advertising it because of hibernation.
4854 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
4855 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4856 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4857 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4858 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4859 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4860 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
4861 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
4862 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
4863 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
4864 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
4865 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
4866 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
4867 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
4870 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
4871 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4872 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4873 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4874 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4875 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
4876 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
4877 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4878 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4879 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4880 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4881 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4882 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4883 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4884 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
4885 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
4886 connections once a week.
4887 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4888 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4889 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
4890 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
4891 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
4892 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
4894 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
4895 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
4896 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
4898 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4899 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
4900 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
4901 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
4902 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
4903 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
4904 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
4905 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
4906 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
4907 firewall options forbid.
4908 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
4909 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
4910 can only proxy to certain destinations.
4911 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
4912 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
4913 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
4914 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
4915 aids some statistical attacks.
4916 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
4917 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
4918 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
4919 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
4921 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4922 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
4923 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
4924 server descriptor sometimes.
4925 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
4926 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
4927 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
4928 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
4929 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
4930 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
4931 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
4932 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
4934 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
4935 case the controller wants to change that too.
4936 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
4937 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
4938 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
4939 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
4941 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
4942 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
4943 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
4945 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
4946 descriptors that they know they will reject.
4948 o Features and updates:
4949 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
4950 significantly faster.
4951 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
4952 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
4953 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
4954 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
4955 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
4956 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
4957 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
4958 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
4959 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
4960 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
4961 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
4962 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
4963 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
4964 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
4965 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
4966 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
4967 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
4968 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
4969 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
4970 as authoritative dirserver.
4971 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
4972 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
4973 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
4976 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
4977 o Usability improvements:
4978 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
4979 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
4981 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
4982 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
4983 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
4985 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
4986 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
4987 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
4988 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
4989 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
4990 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
4991 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
4992 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
4993 memory leaks better.
4994 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
4995 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
4996 their operators to pay close attention.
4997 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
4998 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
5000 o Performance improvements:
5001 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
5002 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
5003 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
5004 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
5005 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
5006 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
5007 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
5008 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
5009 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
5010 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
5011 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
5012 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
5013 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
5014 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
5015 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
5016 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
5017 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
5019 o Security improvements:
5020 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
5021 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
5022 fingerprint of server.
5023 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
5024 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
5025 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
5027 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5028 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
5029 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
5030 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
5031 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
5032 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
5033 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
5034 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
5035 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
5036 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
5037 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
5038 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
5039 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
5040 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
5041 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
5042 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
5043 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
5044 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
5045 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
5046 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
5047 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
5049 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
5050 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
5051 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
5053 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
5054 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
5056 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
5057 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
5058 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
5059 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
5060 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
5061 of the controller protocol.
5062 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
5063 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
5064 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
5067 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
5068 o New features (major):
5069 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
5070 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
5071 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
5072 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
5073 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
5074 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
5075 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
5076 we're using a default DirPort.
5077 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
5079 o New features (minor):
5080 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
5081 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
5082 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
5083 mirrors still cache and serve it).
5084 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
5085 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
5086 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
5087 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
5088 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
5089 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
5090 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
5091 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
5092 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
5093 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
5094 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
5095 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
5096 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
5097 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
5098 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
5100 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
5101 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
5102 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
5103 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
5104 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
5105 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
5106 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
5107 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
5109 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
5110 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
5111 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
5112 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
5113 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
5114 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
5115 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
5116 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
5117 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
5118 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
5120 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
5121 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5122 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5123 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5124 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5127 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
5128 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
5130 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
5131 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
5133 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
5134 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
5135 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
5136 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
5137 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
5138 don't warn twice about the same name.
5139 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
5140 if we've not heard of the server.
5141 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
5142 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
5145 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
5146 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5147 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
5148 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5149 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5150 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
5151 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
5152 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
5153 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
5154 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5155 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5156 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
5157 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
5158 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
5159 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
5162 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
5163 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
5164 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
5165 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
5166 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
5168 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
5169 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
5170 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
5171 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
5172 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
5173 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
5177 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
5178 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
5179 nickname) is reachable by you.
5180 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
5184 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
5185 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
5186 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
5187 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
5188 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
5189 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
5190 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
5191 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
5192 we fail to connect).
5193 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
5194 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
5195 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
5196 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
5198 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
5199 it was self-testing that told us so.
5202 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
5203 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
5204 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5205 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5206 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
5207 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
5208 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
5209 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
5210 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
5211 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
5212 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
5213 exit policy using him for any exits.
5214 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
5217 o New controller features/fixes:
5218 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
5219 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
5220 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
5221 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
5222 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
5223 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
5224 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
5225 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
5226 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
5228 o Start on the new directory design:
5229 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
5230 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
5232 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
5233 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
5234 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
5235 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
5237 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
5238 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
5239 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
5240 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
5241 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
5242 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
5243 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
5244 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
5247 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
5248 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
5249 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
5250 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
5251 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
5252 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
5253 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
5254 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
5255 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
5256 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
5258 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
5259 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
5260 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
5261 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
5262 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
5263 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
5264 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
5265 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
5266 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
5268 o Config option changes:
5269 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
5270 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
5271 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
5272 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
5273 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
5274 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
5277 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
5278 people have started using them for spam too.
5279 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
5280 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
5281 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
5282 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
5283 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
5284 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
5285 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
5286 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
5287 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
5288 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
5289 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
5290 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
5291 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
5292 services faster on the service end.
5293 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
5294 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
5295 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
5296 it a fair shake next time we try.
5297 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
5298 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
5299 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
5300 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
5301 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
5302 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
5303 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
5304 able to discover them.
5305 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
5306 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
5307 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
5308 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
5309 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
5310 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
5311 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
5312 testing for reachability.
5313 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
5314 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
5316 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
5318 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
5319 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
5322 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
5323 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
5325 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5326 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
5327 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
5328 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
5331 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
5332 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5333 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
5335 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
5336 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
5339 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
5340 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
5343 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
5344 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
5345 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
5346 options, getinfo keys.
5349 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
5350 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5351 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
5352 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
5353 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
5354 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
5355 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
5357 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
5358 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
5362 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
5363 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
5364 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
5366 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
5368 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
5369 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
5370 circuit events and we go offline.
5371 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
5372 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
5373 you don't have enough intro points already.
5375 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
5376 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
5377 many bytes we've used in this time period.
5378 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
5379 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
5380 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
5381 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
5382 enabled by default yet.
5384 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
5385 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
5386 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
5387 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
5388 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
5391 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
5392 o New directory servers:
5393 - tor26 has changed IP address.
5395 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5396 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
5397 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
5399 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
5400 claims its dirport is 0.
5401 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
5402 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
5406 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
5407 o New directory servers:
5408 - tor26 has changed IP address.
5410 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
5411 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
5413 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
5414 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
5415 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
5416 ports that have changed.
5417 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
5419 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
5420 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
5421 Windows-style errno back.
5422 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
5424 want to make it an NT service.
5425 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
5426 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
5427 name, give the full name in our response.
5428 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
5429 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
5430 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
5431 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
5434 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5435 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
5439 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
5440 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
5441 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
5442 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
5443 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
5446 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
5447 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5448 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
5449 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
5450 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
5451 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
5452 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
5453 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
5456 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
5458 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
5459 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
5460 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
5461 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
5462 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
5463 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
5465 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
5466 temporarily unreachable.
5467 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
5471 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
5472 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
5473 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
5475 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
5479 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
5480 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
5481 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
5482 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
5483 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
5487 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
5488 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
5489 libevent before 1.1a.
5492 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
5494 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
5495 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
5496 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
5497 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
5498 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
5500 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
5501 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
5502 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
5503 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
5504 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
5505 of CPU time plus memory.
5506 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
5507 normal web requests.
5508 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
5509 tor_lookup_hostname().
5510 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
5511 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
5512 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
5513 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
5514 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
5515 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
5517 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
5518 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
5519 HttpProxyAuthenticator
5520 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
5521 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
5522 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
5524 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
5525 the user asks you to.
5526 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
5527 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
5528 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
5529 their descriptors are being rejected.
5530 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
5534 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
5536 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
5537 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
5538 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
5540 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
5542 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
5544 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
5545 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
5546 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
5547 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
5548 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
5549 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
5550 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
5551 keys) from the exit server's process.
5552 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
5553 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
5554 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
5555 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
5556 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
5557 point at your Tor server.
5558 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
5559 you're not sending a socks reply back.
5562 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
5563 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
5564 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
5565 to make it easier to write controllers.
5568 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
5570 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
5571 installing on Tiger.
5572 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
5573 complain during installation.
5574 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
5575 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
5576 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
5577 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
5578 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
5579 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
5581 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
5582 something more reasonable when first installing.
5583 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
5586 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
5588 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
5589 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
5591 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
5592 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
5593 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
5594 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
5595 when using the default exit policy.
5596 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
5597 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
5598 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
5599 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
5600 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
5601 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
5602 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
5603 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
5604 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
5605 we fetched a new directory.
5606 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
5607 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
5610 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
5611 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
5612 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
5613 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
5614 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
5615 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
5616 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
5617 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
5619 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
5620 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
5621 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
5622 save memory on systems that need to fork.
5623 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
5624 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
5625 is valid without actually launching Tor.
5626 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
5627 rather than just rejecting it.
5630 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
5632 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
5633 we didn't like its cert.
5635 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
5636 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
5637 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
5638 on patch from Adam Langley.
5639 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
5640 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
5641 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
5642 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
5644 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
5645 directory every time you regenerate it.
5646 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
5647 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
5650 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
5651 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5652 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5653 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
5654 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
5657 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
5659 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5660 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
5661 TLS errors better in other situations too.
5662 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
5663 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
5664 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
5665 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
5666 and don't log when you are.
5667 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
5668 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
5670 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
5671 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
5672 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
5673 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
5674 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
5677 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
5678 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5679 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
5680 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
5681 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
5682 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
5683 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
5684 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
5685 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
5686 nickname+key are allowed.
5687 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
5688 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
5689 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
5690 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
5691 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
5692 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
5693 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
5694 have quite wrong clocks).
5695 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
5696 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
5697 - Efficiency improvements:
5698 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
5699 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
5700 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
5701 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
5702 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
5703 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
5704 lowercase and be done with it.
5705 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
5706 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
5707 to abandon partially built circuits.
5708 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
5709 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
5711 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
5713 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
5714 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
5715 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
5716 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
5718 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
5719 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
5721 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5722 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
5723 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
5724 obeying the exit policy internally.
5725 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
5726 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
5728 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
5729 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
5730 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
5731 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
5733 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
5734 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
5735 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
5736 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
5737 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
5739 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
5740 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
5741 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
5742 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
5743 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
5744 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
5745 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
5746 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
5747 descriptors we just dropped.
5748 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
5749 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
5750 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
5751 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
5752 artificially capped at 500kB.
5755 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
5756 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5757 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
5758 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
5759 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
5760 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
5761 busy for more than 100 seconds.
5764 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
5765 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
5766 - Fixes on reachability detection:
5767 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
5768 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
5769 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
5770 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
5771 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
5772 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
5773 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
5774 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
5775 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
5776 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
5777 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
5778 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
5779 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
5780 server not already connected to them.
5781 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
5782 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
5783 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
5785 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
5787 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
5788 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
5789 are in a different state than they actually are.
5790 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
5791 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
5792 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
5794 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
5795 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
5796 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
5798 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
5799 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
5800 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
5801 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
5802 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
5803 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
5804 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
5806 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
5807 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
5808 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
5809 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
5812 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
5813 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5814 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
5815 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
5816 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
5817 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
5818 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
5819 creating actual system users.
5820 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
5821 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
5825 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
5827 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
5828 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
5829 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
5830 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
5831 hidden services better.
5832 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
5834 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
5835 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
5836 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
5837 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
5838 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
5839 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
5840 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
5841 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
5842 patch by Matt Edman).
5843 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
5844 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
5845 required exit node for certain sites.
5846 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
5847 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
5848 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
5849 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
5850 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
5851 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
5852 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
5853 rather than just "success" or "failure".
5854 - A more sane version numbering system. See
5855 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
5856 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
5857 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
5859 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
5860 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
5861 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
5862 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
5863 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
5864 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
5865 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
5867 o Robustness/stability fixes:
5868 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
5869 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
5870 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
5872 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
5873 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
5874 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
5876 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
5877 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
5878 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
5880 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
5881 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
5882 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
5883 that will want high uptime circuits.
5884 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
5885 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
5886 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
5887 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
5888 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
5889 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
5890 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
5891 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
5892 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
5893 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
5894 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
5895 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
5896 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
5897 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
5898 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
5899 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
5900 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
5901 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
5902 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
5903 when we try to launch one.
5904 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
5905 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
5906 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
5907 "ShutdownWaitLength".
5908 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
5909 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
5910 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
5911 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
5912 and to take errno into account where possible.
5915 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
5916 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
5917 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
5918 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
5919 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
5920 file more reasonable.
5921 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
5922 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
5923 addresses -- it won't.
5924 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
5925 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
5926 for google.com" problem.
5927 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
5928 so it's not just "unknown platform".
5929 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
5930 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
5931 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
5932 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
5934 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
5935 they could use instead.
5936 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
5937 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
5938 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
5939 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
5940 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
5941 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
5942 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
5943 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
5944 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
5946 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
5950 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
5951 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
5953 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
5954 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
5955 private-IP addresses.
5956 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
5957 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
5959 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
5960 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
5961 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
5962 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
5963 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
5964 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
5965 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
5967 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
5968 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
5969 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
5970 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
5971 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
5972 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
5973 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
5974 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
5976 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
5978 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
5979 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
5980 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
5981 whether the server is hibernating.
5984 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
5985 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
5986 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
5987 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
5988 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
5989 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
5990 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
5991 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
5992 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
5993 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
5994 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
5995 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
5996 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
5997 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
5998 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
6000 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
6001 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
6002 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
6003 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
6004 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
6005 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
6006 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
6007 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
6008 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
6009 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
6010 existing torrc files.
6011 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
6014 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
6015 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6016 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
6017 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
6018 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
6019 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
6020 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
6021 the win32 SYSTEM account.
6022 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
6023 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
6024 file descriptors available.
6025 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
6026 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
6027 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
6030 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
6031 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6032 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
6033 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
6035 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
6036 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
6037 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
6038 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
6039 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
6041 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
6042 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
6043 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
6044 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
6045 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
6046 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
6047 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
6048 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
6049 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
6050 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
6051 800kB/s of capacity.
6052 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
6055 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
6056 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6057 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
6058 need as much processor time.
6059 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
6060 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
6061 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
6062 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
6063 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
6064 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
6065 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
6066 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
6067 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
6068 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
6069 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
6070 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
6072 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
6073 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
6074 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
6075 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
6076 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
6077 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
6078 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
6081 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
6082 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
6083 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
6085 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
6086 style address, then we'd crash.
6087 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
6088 a dirserver is broken.
6089 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
6091 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
6092 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
6093 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
6095 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
6096 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
6097 name out of the warning/assert messages.
6098 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
6099 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
6100 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
6102 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
6103 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
6104 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
6106 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
6108 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
6109 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
6110 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
6111 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
6112 values at once couldn't work.
6113 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
6114 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
6115 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
6116 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
6117 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
6118 they can handle any number of routers.
6119 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
6120 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
6121 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
6122 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
6123 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
6124 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
6125 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
6126 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
6127 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
6130 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
6131 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6132 - Make hibernation actually work.
6133 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
6134 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
6135 don't use the stream status code.
6138 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
6140 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
6141 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
6143 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
6146 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
6147 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
6148 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
6149 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
6150 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
6151 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
6152 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
6153 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
6154 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
6155 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
6157 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6158 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
6159 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
6160 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
6161 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
6162 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
6163 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
6164 - Make unit tests work on win32.
6167 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
6168 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6169 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
6171 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
6172 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
6173 than just chopping them off.
6174 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
6176 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6177 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
6178 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
6179 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
6180 right after sending the begin cell.
6181 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
6182 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
6183 exit nodes too. Oops.
6186 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
6187 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
6188 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
6189 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
6190 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
6191 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
6192 the user knows which one it's talking about.
6193 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
6194 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
6195 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
6198 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
6199 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6200 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
6201 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
6203 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
6205 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6206 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
6207 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
6209 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
6210 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
6211 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
6212 Clip rather than rejecting.
6213 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
6214 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
6217 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
6218 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
6219 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
6220 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
6222 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
6225 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
6226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6227 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
6228 win32 socket errors better.
6230 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6231 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
6234 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
6235 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6236 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
6237 so we don't see those messages days later.
6239 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6240 - Make tor-resolve work again.
6241 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
6242 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
6245 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
6246 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
6247 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
6248 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
6250 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
6251 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
6252 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
6255 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
6256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6257 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
6258 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
6259 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
6260 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
6261 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
6262 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
6263 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
6265 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
6266 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
6267 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
6268 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
6270 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
6271 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
6274 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
6275 hibernation properties by
6276 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
6277 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
6278 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
6279 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
6280 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
6281 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
6282 get back to normal.)
6283 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
6285 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
6286 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
6287 to fill the last cell completely.
6288 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
6291 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
6292 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6293 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
6294 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
6295 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
6296 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
6297 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
6298 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
6299 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
6300 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
6301 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
6303 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
6304 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
6305 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
6306 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
6307 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
6308 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
6309 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
6310 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
6312 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
6313 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
6314 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
6315 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
6316 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
6317 have it on start-up.
6320 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
6321 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
6322 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
6323 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
6324 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
6325 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
6326 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
6327 configuration to torrc.
6328 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
6329 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
6330 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
6331 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
6332 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
6334 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
6335 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
6336 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
6337 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
6338 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
6339 log more informatively.
6340 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
6341 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
6342 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
6343 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
6344 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
6345 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
6346 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
6347 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
6348 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
6349 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
6350 from each other, to hinder linkability.
6353 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
6354 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
6355 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
6356 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
6357 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
6358 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
6359 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
6361 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
6362 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
6363 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
6364 they ran out of file descriptors.
6365 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
6366 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
6367 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
6368 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
6369 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
6370 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
6371 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
6373 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
6376 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
6377 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
6378 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
6379 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
6380 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
6381 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
6382 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
6383 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
6384 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
6385 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
6386 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
6387 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
6388 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
6389 with the control port.
6390 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
6391 use in authenticating to the control interface.
6392 - New log format in config:
6393 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
6394 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
6397 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
6398 from their dirserver.
6399 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
6401 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
6402 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
6403 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
6404 them act more like real nodes.
6405 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
6406 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
6408 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
6409 nickname to its identity key.
6410 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
6411 not on the command line.
6412 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
6413 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
6414 1024) file descriptors.
6416 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
6417 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
6419 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
6420 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
6421 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
6424 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
6425 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
6426 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
6427 exit policy, not reject *:*.
6428 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
6429 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
6430 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
6431 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
6432 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
6433 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
6434 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
6437 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
6438 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
6439 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
6440 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
6441 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
6442 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
6443 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
6446 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
6447 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6448 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
6449 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
6450 the ones we find in directories.)
6451 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
6453 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
6454 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
6456 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
6457 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
6458 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
6460 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
6461 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
6462 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
6463 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
6465 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
6466 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
6467 any more exit policy lines.
6470 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
6471 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
6472 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
6473 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
6474 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
6475 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
6476 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
6477 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
6478 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
6479 will be able to get a directory.
6480 - Http proxy support
6481 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
6482 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
6483 be routed through this host.
6484 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
6485 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
6486 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
6487 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
6490 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
6492 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
6493 clients/servers with an open dirport.
6494 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
6495 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
6496 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
6497 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
6498 intermittent connections.
6499 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
6500 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
6502 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
6503 in reporting stats locally.
6504 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
6505 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
6506 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
6509 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
6511 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
6512 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
6515 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
6517 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
6518 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
6519 if you don't want it open.
6520 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
6521 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
6522 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
6523 intermittent connections.
6524 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
6526 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
6527 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
6528 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
6529 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
6530 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
6531 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
6532 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
6533 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
6534 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
6535 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
6536 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
6537 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
6538 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
6539 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
6540 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
6541 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
6544 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
6545 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
6546 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
6547 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
6548 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
6550 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
6552 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
6553 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
6554 specified in HTTP 1.0.
6555 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
6556 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
6557 than once per minute.
6558 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
6559 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
6562 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
6563 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
6566 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
6567 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
6568 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
6569 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
6572 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
6573 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
6575 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
6576 don't put it into the client dns cache.
6577 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
6578 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
6579 until we get our next directory.
6581 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
6582 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
6583 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
6584 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
6585 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
6586 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
6587 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
6588 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
6589 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
6590 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
6591 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
6593 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
6595 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
6596 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
6598 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
6599 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
6600 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
6602 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
6604 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
6605 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
6606 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
6607 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
6608 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
6609 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
6610 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
6611 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
6614 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
6615 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
6616 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
6617 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
6620 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
6621 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
6622 ask them to resolve the host "".
6625 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
6626 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6627 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
6628 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
6629 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
6630 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
6631 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
6632 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
6633 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
6634 clients don't use this yet.)
6635 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
6636 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
6637 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
6638 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
6639 for pointing out this bug.)
6640 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
6641 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
6642 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
6643 kazaa, gnutella ports.
6644 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
6646 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
6647 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
6648 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
6649 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
6650 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
6651 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
6652 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
6653 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
6654 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
6656 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
6657 that's still handshaking.
6658 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
6659 you'll choose it for your path.
6660 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
6661 end relay cell, etc.
6662 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
6663 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
6664 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
6667 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
6668 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6670 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
6671 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
6672 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
6673 list to decide who's running or verified.
6674 - Bugfixes and features:
6675 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
6676 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
6677 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
6678 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
6679 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
6680 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
6682 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
6683 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
6684 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
6685 know you might want to get it verified.
6686 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
6689 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
6691 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
6692 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
6693 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
6694 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
6697 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
6698 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
6699 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
6700 hadn't heard of before.
6703 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
6704 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
6705 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
6706 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
6707 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
6708 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
6709 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
6710 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
6711 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
6712 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
6713 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
6714 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
6715 - Directory caching.
6716 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
6717 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
6718 directory they've pulled down.
6719 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
6720 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
6721 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
6722 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
6723 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
6724 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
6725 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
6727 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
6728 This isn't used yet.
6729 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
6730 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
6731 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
6732 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
6733 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
6734 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
6735 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
6736 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
6737 - File and name management:
6738 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
6739 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
6741 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
6742 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
6743 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
6744 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
6745 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
6746 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
6747 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
6749 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
6750 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
6751 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
6752 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
6753 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
6755 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
6756 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
6757 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
6758 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
6759 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
6760 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
6761 - New docs in the tarball:
6763 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
6766 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
6767 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
6768 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
6771 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
6772 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
6773 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
6776 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
6777 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
6780 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
6781 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
6782 - Make it build on Win32 again.
6783 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
6784 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
6788 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
6790 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
6791 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
6792 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
6793 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
6794 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
6795 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
6796 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
6797 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
6798 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
6799 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
6802 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
6805 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
6806 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
6807 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
6808 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
6810 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
6811 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
6812 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
6814 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
6815 hidden service per 15-minute period.
6816 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
6817 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
6818 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
6819 o Fixes for security bugs:
6820 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
6821 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
6822 a trusted dirserver.
6824 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
6825 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
6826 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
6827 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
6828 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
6829 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
6830 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
6831 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
6832 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
6833 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
6835 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
6836 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
6837 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
6838 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
6840 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
6841 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
6842 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
6843 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
6844 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
6845 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
6846 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
6847 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
6848 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
6849 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
6850 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
6851 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
6852 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
6855 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
6856 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
6857 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
6858 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6861 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
6862 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
6863 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
6864 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
6865 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
6866 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6867 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
6871 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
6875 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
6876 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
6877 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
6878 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
6879 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
6881 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
6884 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
6885 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
6886 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
6887 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
6888 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
6889 o Better debugging for tls errors
6890 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
6891 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
6892 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
6893 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
6894 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
6895 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
6896 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
6897 o win32's close can't close a socket.
6900 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
6901 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
6902 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
6903 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
6904 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
6905 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
6906 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
6907 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
6908 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
6909 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
6910 just close the circ.
6911 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
6912 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
6913 (this was quite rare).
6916 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
6917 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
6918 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
6919 if you decrypted them correctly.
6920 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
6921 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
6922 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
6925 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
6926 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
6927 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
6928 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
6929 a second one and it works.
6930 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
6931 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
6932 alice would just have to wait to time out.
6933 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
6934 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
6935 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
6936 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
6937 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
6938 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
6939 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
6940 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
6941 i'd still like to find the bug though.
6942 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
6944 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
6948 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
6949 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
6950 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
6951 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
6952 he retries a couple of times
6953 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
6954 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
6955 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
6956 too long (they were sticking around forever).
6957 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
6961 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
6962 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
6963 - make hup work again
6964 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
6965 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
6966 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
6967 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
6968 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
6969 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
6971 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
6972 o changes from 0.0.5:
6973 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
6974 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
6975 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
6976 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
6977 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
6979 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
6980 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
6981 in-memory directories too
6984 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
6985 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
6988 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
6990 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
6991 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
6992 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
6993 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
6996 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
7000 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
7001 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
7003 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
7004 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
7005 but that aren't warnings
7008 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
7009 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
7010 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
7011 the dns farm to do it.
7012 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
7013 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
7015 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
7016 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
7017 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
7020 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
7021 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
7022 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
7023 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
7024 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
7025 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
7026 expect it to have a nickname.
7027 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
7028 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
7031 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
7032 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
7036 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
7037 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
7038 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
7039 - include missing header fcntl.h
7040 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
7041 - deal with hardware word alignment
7042 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
7043 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
7044 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
7045 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
7046 by kill -USR1 currently.
7047 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
7048 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
7049 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
7052 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
7053 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
7054 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
7057 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
7059 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
7060 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
7061 - And fix a few endian issues.
7064 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
7066 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
7067 try that circuit again: try a new one.
7068 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
7069 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
7070 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
7071 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
7072 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
7073 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
7075 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
7076 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
7077 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
7079 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
7081 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
7082 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
7083 side isn't reading right then.
7084 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
7086 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
7087 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
7088 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
7091 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
7093 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
7094 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
7097 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
7101 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
7103 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
7104 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
7105 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
7106 connection is finished.
7107 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
7108 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
7109 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
7110 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
7111 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
7112 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
7113 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
7114 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
7115 rather than warn and continue.
7116 - Make --version work
7117 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
7120 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
7122 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
7124 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
7125 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
7127 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
7128 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
7129 so you can collect coredumps there.
7131 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
7132 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
7133 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
7134 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
7135 dns cache actually gets populated.
7136 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
7137 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
7138 end cell down it first.
7139 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
7140 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
7143 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
7145 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
7146 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
7148 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
7149 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
7150 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
7151 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
7152 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
7153 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
7155 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
7157 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
7158 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
7159 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
7160 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
7161 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
7162 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
7164 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
7165 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
7168 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
7170 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
7171 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
7172 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
7173 tor. It even has a man page.
7174 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
7175 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
7176 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
7177 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
7179 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
7181 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
7184 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
7186 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
7188 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
7189 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
7190 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
7191 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
7192 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
7193 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
7194 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
7195 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
7196 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
7197 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
7198 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
7200 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
7201 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
7204 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
7206 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
7207 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
7210 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
7212 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
7213 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
7214 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
7215 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
7216 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
7217 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
7218 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
7219 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
7220 logfile so you know it's working.
7221 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
7222 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
7225 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
7227 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
7228 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
7229 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
7232 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
7234 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
7235 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
7236 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
7239 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
7240 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
7241 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
7243 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
7244 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
7246 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
7247 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
7248 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
7250 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
7251 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
7255 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
7257 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
7258 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
7259 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
7262 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
7263 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
7264 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
7265 - Add port ranges to exit policies
7266 - Add a conservative default exit policy
7267 - Warn if you're running tor as root
7268 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
7269 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
7270 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
7271 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
7273 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
7276 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
7277 o Robustness and bugfixes:
7278 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
7279 really screw things up.
7280 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
7282 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
7283 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
7285 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
7286 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
7287 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
7288 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
7289 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
7290 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
7293 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
7296 - Change default loglevel to warn.
7297 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
7298 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
7300 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
7303 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
7304 o Robustness and bugfixes:
7305 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
7306 - to get ownership/permissions right
7307 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
7308 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
7309 pull down a directory again
7310 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
7311 causing server crashes
7312 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
7313 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
7314 - exit if bind() fails
7315 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
7316 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
7317 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
7318 - fix minor bias in PRNG
7319 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
7322 - Wrote the design document (woo)
7324 o Circuit building and exit policies:
7325 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
7327 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
7328 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
7329 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
7330 exists, rather than failing
7331 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
7332 which AP connections are standing by
7333 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
7334 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
7335 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
7337 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
7338 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
7341 - APPort is now called SocksPort
7342 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
7344 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
7345 hardcoded (for dirservers)
7346 - Reloads config on HUP
7347 - Usage info on -h or --help
7348 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
7351 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
7352 o General stability:
7353 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
7354 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
7355 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
7356 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
7357 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
7358 to take down the network when I approve a new router
7359 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
7362 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
7363 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
7365 o Autoconf improvements:
7366 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
7367 - Make install now works
7368 - create var/lib/tor on make install
7369 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
7370 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
7372 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
7373 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
7374 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
7375 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup