1 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-07-xx
2 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
3 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
4 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
7 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
8 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
9 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
10 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
11 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
12 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
13 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
14 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
17 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
18 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
19 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
20 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
21 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
22 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
25 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
26 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
27 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
30 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
31 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
32 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
34 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
36 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
37 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
38 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
39 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
40 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
41 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
42 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
43 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
46 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
47 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
48 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
50 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
51 fingerprints with or without space.
52 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
53 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
54 partway through and wants to catch up.
55 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
56 state to start out in.
59 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
60 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
61 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
62 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
63 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
66 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
67 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
68 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
69 some of the connection attempts fail.
70 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
71 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
72 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
73 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
74 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
75 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
77 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
78 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
79 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
82 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
83 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
84 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
85 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
86 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
87 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
88 and adds a variety of smaller features.
91 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
92 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
93 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
94 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
96 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
97 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
98 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
99 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
101 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
102 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
103 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
104 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
105 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
106 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
107 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
110 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
111 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
112 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
113 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
114 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
116 o Memory fixes and improvements:
117 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
118 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
119 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
120 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
121 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
122 on a typical directory cache.
123 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
124 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
125 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
126 and may reduce fragmentation.
127 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
128 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
129 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
131 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
132 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
133 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
135 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
136 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
140 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
141 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
142 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
143 done that for a long time.
144 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
145 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
146 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
147 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
150 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
151 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
152 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
153 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
154 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
155 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
157 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
158 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
159 output to messages of warning and error severity.
160 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
161 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
162 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
163 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
164 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
165 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
166 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
167 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
168 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
169 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
170 directory requests we should expect to see.
171 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
173 - Lots of new unit tests.
174 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
175 two parallel lists in lockstep.
178 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
179 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
180 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
183 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
184 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
185 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
186 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
187 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
188 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
189 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
192 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
193 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
194 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
198 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
199 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
200 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
203 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
204 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
205 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
207 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
208 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
210 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
211 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
212 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
213 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
214 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
215 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
216 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
218 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
219 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
220 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
221 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
222 - Fix compile on Windows.
225 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
226 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
227 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
228 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
229 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
230 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
231 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
234 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
235 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
238 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
239 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
240 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
241 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
243 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
244 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
245 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
248 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
249 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
250 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
251 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
255 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
256 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
257 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
258 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
260 o Major security fixes:
261 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
262 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
263 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
264 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
265 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
268 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
269 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
272 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
273 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
276 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
277 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
280 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
281 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
282 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
285 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
286 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
289 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
290 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
291 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
292 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
293 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
295 o New directory authorities:
296 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
297 it has been down for months.
298 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
302 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
303 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
305 o Minor features (security):
306 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
307 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
308 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
311 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
312 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
313 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
314 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
315 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
316 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
317 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
318 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
319 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
321 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
322 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
323 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
324 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
325 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
326 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
327 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
328 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
329 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
331 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
332 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
333 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
334 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
335 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
336 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
337 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
338 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
339 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
340 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
341 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
342 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
343 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
344 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
345 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
346 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
347 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
348 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
349 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
352 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
353 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
354 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
355 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
358 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
359 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
360 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
361 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
364 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
365 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
366 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
367 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
368 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
371 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
372 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
373 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
374 certain censored countries by default again.
377 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
378 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
379 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
380 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
381 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
382 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
383 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
384 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
386 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
387 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
388 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
389 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
390 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
391 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
392 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
393 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
394 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
395 a directory. Fix from lodger.
397 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
398 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
399 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
400 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
401 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
402 RelayBandwidth* values.
403 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
404 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
406 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
407 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
408 get_interface_address6().
409 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
410 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
411 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
413 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
414 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
415 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
416 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
417 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
418 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
419 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
420 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
421 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
422 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
425 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
426 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
427 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
430 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
431 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
432 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
433 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
434 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
437 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
438 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
439 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
440 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
441 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
442 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
443 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
444 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
445 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
448 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
449 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
450 from lodger, Karsten Loesing and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
451 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
454 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
455 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
456 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
457 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
458 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
459 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
460 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
463 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
464 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
465 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
466 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
467 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
468 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
469 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
471 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
472 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
473 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
474 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
475 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
478 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
479 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
481 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
482 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
483 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
484 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
485 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
486 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
487 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
488 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
489 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
490 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
491 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
492 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
493 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
494 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
495 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
496 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
497 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
498 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
499 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
500 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
501 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
502 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
503 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
505 o Minor features (performance):
506 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
508 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
509 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
510 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
511 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
512 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
513 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
514 non-system include paths.
515 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
516 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
519 o Minor features (other):
520 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
522 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
523 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
524 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
527 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
528 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
529 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
530 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
532 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
533 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
534 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
535 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
537 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
538 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
539 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
540 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
541 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
543 o Minor bugfixes (other):
544 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
545 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
546 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
547 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
548 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
549 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
550 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
551 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
552 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
553 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
554 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
555 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
556 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
557 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
558 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
559 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
560 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
561 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
562 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
563 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
564 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
565 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
566 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
567 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
570 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
571 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
572 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
576 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
577 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
578 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
579 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
580 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
583 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
584 Tor's x509 certificates.
587 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
588 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
589 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
590 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
591 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
592 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
594 o Minor features (security):
595 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
596 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
598 o Minor features (directory authority):
599 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
600 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
601 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
602 bandwidthburst values.
604 o Minor features (controller):
605 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
606 processes from running us out of memory.
608 o Minor features (misc):
609 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
610 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
611 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
612 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
614 o Deprecated features (controller):
615 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
616 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
617 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
620 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
621 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
623 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
624 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
625 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
626 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
627 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
628 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
629 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
630 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
632 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
633 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
634 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
635 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
636 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
637 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
638 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
639 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
641 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
642 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
643 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
644 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
645 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
646 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
647 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
648 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
649 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
650 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
651 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
652 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
654 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
655 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
657 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
658 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
659 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
660 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
661 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
662 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
665 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
666 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
667 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
668 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
669 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
671 o New directory authorities:
672 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
676 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
677 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
678 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
679 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
680 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
681 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
682 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
683 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
687 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
688 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
689 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
690 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
691 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
692 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
693 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
694 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
695 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
696 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
699 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
700 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
701 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
702 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
706 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
707 the request isn't encrypted.
708 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
709 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
710 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
711 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
712 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
715 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
716 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
719 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
722 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
723 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
724 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
726 o New directory authorities:
727 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
730 o Major performance improvements:
731 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
732 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
733 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
734 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
735 memory fragmentation.
738 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
739 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
740 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
741 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
742 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
743 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
744 bodies when they receive them.
745 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
746 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
747 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
749 o Minor performance improvements:
750 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
751 of them were actually distinct.
752 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
753 interested in a given message.
756 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
757 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
758 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
759 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
760 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
761 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
762 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
763 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
764 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
765 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
766 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
768 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
769 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
770 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
771 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
772 this country" and "1 person from this country".
773 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
774 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
775 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
776 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
777 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
779 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
780 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
781 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
783 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
784 but client versions are not.
785 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
786 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
788 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
789 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
790 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
791 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
792 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
794 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
795 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
796 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
799 o Minor features (controller):
800 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
801 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
802 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
803 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
805 o Minor features (directory authorities):
806 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
807 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
808 running a test network on a single host.
809 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
810 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
812 o Minor features (bridges):
813 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
814 unencrypted connections.
816 o Minor features (other):
817 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
818 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
819 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
820 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
823 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
824 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
825 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
826 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
829 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
830 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
831 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
832 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
836 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
837 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
838 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
839 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
840 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
841 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
842 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
843 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
844 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
845 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
846 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
847 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
850 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
851 rebuild our server descriptor.
852 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
853 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
854 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
855 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
856 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
857 nonstandard integer types.
858 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
859 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
860 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
861 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
862 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
864 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
865 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
866 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
867 when they receive them.
868 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
869 This includes some 64-bit systems.
870 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
871 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
872 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
873 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
874 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
875 router_get_by_hexdigest().
876 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
877 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
881 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
882 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
883 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
886 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
887 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
888 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
889 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
890 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
891 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
892 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
893 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
896 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
897 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
898 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
899 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
901 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
902 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
905 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
906 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
909 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
911 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
912 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
914 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
915 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
916 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
917 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
918 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
919 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
920 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
921 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
922 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
923 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
927 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
928 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
929 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
932 - Make the unit tests build again.
933 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
934 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
935 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
936 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
937 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
938 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
939 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
940 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
941 the next one as a duplicate.
944 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
945 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
946 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
947 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
950 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
951 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
952 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
955 o New directory authorities:
956 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
960 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
961 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
962 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
963 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
964 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
965 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
966 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
968 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
969 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
971 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
972 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
973 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
974 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
975 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
976 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
978 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
979 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
980 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
981 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
982 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
983 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
986 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
987 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
988 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
989 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
990 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
991 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
992 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
993 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
994 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
995 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
996 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
997 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
998 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
999 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
1000 where Tor is blocked.
1001 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
1002 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
1003 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
1004 to a file periodically.
1005 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
1006 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
1007 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
1011 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
1012 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
1013 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
1014 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
1015 in the relevant networkstatus document.
1016 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
1017 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
1018 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1019 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
1020 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
1021 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
1022 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
1024 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
1025 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
1026 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
1027 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
1028 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
1029 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1030 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
1031 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
1032 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
1033 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1034 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
1035 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
1036 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
1037 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1038 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1039 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
1040 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
1041 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1042 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1043 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1044 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1045 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
1046 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1047 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
1048 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
1049 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1050 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
1051 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1054 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
1055 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
1056 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
1057 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
1058 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
1059 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
1060 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
1061 even if your DirPort isn't on.
1062 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
1063 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
1064 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
1066 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
1067 multiple controller passwords.
1068 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
1069 router based on the router's purpose.
1070 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
1071 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
1072 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
1073 the approved-routers file.
1076 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
1077 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
1078 well as a few minor bugs.
1081 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
1082 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
1083 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
1085 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1086 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1087 rebuild our server descriptor.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1090 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
1091 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
1092 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
1093 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
1094 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
1095 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
1096 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
1097 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
1098 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
1100 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
1101 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
1102 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
1103 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
1104 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
1105 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
1106 then be flexible about families.
1109 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
1110 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
1111 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
1115 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
1116 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
1117 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
1118 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
1119 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
1122 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1123 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1124 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1125 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1126 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1129 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1130 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
1132 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
1133 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
1134 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
1135 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
1136 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
1137 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
1138 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1140 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
1141 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
1142 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
1143 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
1146 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
1147 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
1150 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
1151 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
1152 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1155 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
1156 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
1157 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
1158 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
1159 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
1160 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
1161 addresses many more minor issues.
1163 o New directory authorities:
1164 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
1167 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
1168 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
1169 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
1170 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
1172 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
1173 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
1174 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
1175 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
1176 and are reaching it.
1177 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
1178 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
1179 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
1180 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
1181 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
1182 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
1185 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
1186 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
1188 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
1189 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
1190 no longer work for clients.
1191 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1192 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
1194 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
1195 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
1196 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
1197 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
1198 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
1199 enough directory information to build a circuit.
1200 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
1201 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
1202 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
1203 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
1204 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
1205 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
1207 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
1208 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
1209 requests for all of them.
1210 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
1212 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
1213 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
1214 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
1217 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
1218 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
1222 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
1223 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
1224 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
1225 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
1226 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
1227 networkstatuses that we already have.
1228 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
1229 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
1230 we start knowing some directory caches.
1231 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
1232 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
1233 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
1234 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
1235 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
1236 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
1237 Good in combination with --hash-password.
1238 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
1239 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
1241 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
1242 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
1243 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
1245 o Minor features (bridges):
1246 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
1247 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
1248 back to trying the bridge directly.
1249 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
1250 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
1252 o Minor features (controller):
1253 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
1254 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
1255 report the value as a "minimum skew."
1258 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
1259 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
1263 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
1264 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
1265 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
1266 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
1267 reported by tup and ioerror.
1268 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
1269 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1272 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1274 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1275 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes Bug 536.
1276 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
1278 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
1279 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1280 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
1281 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1282 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
1283 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1284 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
1286 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
1287 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
1288 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1290 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
1291 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
1292 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
1293 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
1294 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
1297 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
1298 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
1299 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
1300 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
1301 lists for a few hours each day.
1303 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1304 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1305 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1306 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
1307 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
1308 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1309 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1310 rend_process_relay_cell().
1312 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1313 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1314 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1315 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1316 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1317 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1318 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
1319 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
1321 o Major bugfixes (other):
1322 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
1323 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
1324 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
1325 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1326 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1327 circuit cannibalization).
1328 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1329 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1330 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1331 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1332 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1333 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
1336 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1337 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
1339 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1340 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
1341 absent. Resolves bug 467.
1342 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
1343 a way to trigger this remotely.)
1344 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1345 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1346 were reporting the dir port.)
1347 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1348 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
1349 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1350 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1351 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1353 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1354 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1355 the onion key from getting rotated.
1356 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1357 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1358 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1359 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
1360 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1361 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1362 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1363 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1364 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1367 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
1368 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
1369 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
1370 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
1371 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
1372 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
1374 o Major features (directory system):
1375 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
1376 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
1377 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
1378 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
1379 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
1380 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
1381 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
1382 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
1383 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
1384 - If the consensus list a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
1385 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
1386 Partially implements proposal 122.
1387 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
1388 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
1391 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
1392 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
1393 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
1394 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
1396 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1397 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1398 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1399 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1400 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1401 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1402 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
1403 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
1404 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1406 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
1407 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
1409 - Allow certificates to include an address.
1410 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
1411 and download operations.
1412 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
1413 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
1414 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
1415 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
1416 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
1417 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
1419 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
1420 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
1423 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
1424 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
1425 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
1426 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
1428 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
1429 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
1430 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
1432 o Minor features (performance):
1433 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
1434 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
1435 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
1436 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
1437 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
1438 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
1439 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
1442 o Minor features (compilation):
1443 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
1444 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
1446 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1447 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
1448 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
1449 stick around indefinitely.
1450 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
1452 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
1453 v3 directory authority.
1454 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
1455 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
1457 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
1458 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
1459 "moria on moria:9031."
1460 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
1461 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
1462 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
1463 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
1464 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
1465 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
1466 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
1467 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
1469 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1470 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
1471 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
1472 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
1473 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
1474 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
1475 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
1476 downloads than for other types.
1478 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
1479 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
1481 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
1482 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
1483 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1485 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1486 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1487 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1488 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
1489 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
1490 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
1491 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
1492 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
1494 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1495 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
1496 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
1497 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
1498 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1499 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
1500 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
1501 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1502 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
1503 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
1504 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
1506 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
1507 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
1510 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1511 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
1512 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
1513 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
1514 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
1515 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
1516 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
1517 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
1518 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
1519 so that they all take the same named flags.
1522 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
1523 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
1524 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
1527 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
1528 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
1529 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
1530 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
1531 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
1532 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
1534 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
1535 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
1536 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
1537 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
1538 annotations along with descriptors.
1539 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
1540 source, and its purpose.
1541 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
1543 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
1544 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
1545 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
1546 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
1549 o Major features (directory authorities):
1550 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
1552 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
1553 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
1554 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
1555 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
1556 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
1557 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
1559 o Major features (v3 directory system):
1560 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
1561 and download the descriptors listed in them.
1562 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
1563 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
1564 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
1566 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1567 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1568 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1569 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
1572 o Major bugfixes (performance):
1573 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
1574 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
1575 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
1576 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
1578 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
1579 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
1580 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
1581 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
1582 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
1583 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1585 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
1586 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
1588 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
1589 certificate is requested.
1590 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
1591 certificate requests.
1593 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
1594 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
1595 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
1596 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
1599 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1600 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1601 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1602 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1604 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
1605 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
1607 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
1608 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
1609 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1610 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
1611 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
1612 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
1613 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
1614 downloads more sensible.
1615 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
1616 another when serving certificates.
1618 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1619 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
1620 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
1621 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
1623 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
1624 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1625 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
1627 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1628 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1630 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1631 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1632 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1633 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
1634 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1636 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1637 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
1638 WARN-severity events.
1639 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1640 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
1641 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1643 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
1644 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
1645 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
1647 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1648 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1649 circuit cannibalization).
1651 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1652 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
1653 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
1654 new module, networkstatus.c.
1655 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
1656 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
1657 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
1658 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
1659 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
1660 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
1661 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
1662 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
1663 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
1665 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
1667 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
1668 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1671 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
1672 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
1673 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
1674 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
1676 o New directory authorities:
1677 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
1678 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
1680 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1681 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1682 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1684 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1685 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
1686 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
1687 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
1688 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1689 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
1690 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
1691 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
1692 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
1693 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
1694 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1696 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1697 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1698 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1699 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1700 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1701 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1702 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
1703 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
1704 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
1706 o Minor features (security):
1707 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
1708 address maps to an internal address space.
1709 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
1710 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
1712 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1713 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
1714 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
1715 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
1716 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
1718 o Minor features (speed):
1719 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
1720 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
1721 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
1722 on big-endian hosts.)
1724 o Minor features (controller):
1725 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
1726 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
1727 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
1728 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
1732 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
1733 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
1734 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
1735 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
1736 implementation of proposal 104.
1737 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
1738 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
1739 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
1740 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
1741 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
1742 patch from Karsten Loesing.
1743 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
1744 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
1747 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1748 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
1749 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1750 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
1751 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1752 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
1753 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1754 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1755 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
1756 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1757 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
1758 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
1759 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
1760 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1761 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
1762 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
1763 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
1764 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1765 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
1766 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
1768 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1769 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
1770 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
1772 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
1773 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
1774 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
1775 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
1778 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
1779 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
1780 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
1781 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1782 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
1785 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
1786 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
1789 o Major bugfixes (security):
1790 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
1791 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
1792 become more of a headache than it's worth.
1794 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1795 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1796 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1798 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1799 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1800 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1801 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1802 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1803 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1805 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1806 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1807 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1808 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1809 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
1811 o Minor features (controller):
1812 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1813 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1814 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1815 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1817 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1818 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
1819 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
1820 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
1821 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
1822 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
1823 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
1824 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
1826 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1827 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
1828 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
1829 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
1830 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
1831 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
1832 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
1833 if we ran off the end of the list.
1834 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1835 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1836 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1837 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1838 every time we change any piece of our config.
1839 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1840 encourage people using them to stop.
1841 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
1843 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1844 servers to choose a circuit.
1845 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1846 unparseable piece of it.
1849 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
1850 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
1851 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
1852 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1855 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
1856 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
1857 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
1858 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
1859 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
1861 o New directory authorities:
1862 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
1865 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
1866 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
1867 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
1868 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
1870 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1871 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1872 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1874 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1875 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1876 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1877 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1878 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1879 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1881 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
1882 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
1883 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1886 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
1887 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
1888 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
1889 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
1893 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
1894 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
1895 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
1896 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
1898 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
1899 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
1901 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
1902 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
1903 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
1904 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
1905 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
1906 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1907 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1908 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1909 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1910 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
1913 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
1914 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
1915 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
1916 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
1917 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
1918 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
1921 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
1922 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
1923 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
1924 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
1927 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
1928 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
1929 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
1930 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
1931 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
1934 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1935 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1936 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1937 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1938 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
1941 o Minor features (directory servers):
1942 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
1943 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
1945 o Minor features (directory voting):
1946 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
1949 o Minor features (security):
1950 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
1951 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1952 encourage people using them to stop.
1954 o Minor features (controller):
1955 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1956 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1957 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1958 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1959 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
1960 cookie authentication file, and config option
1961 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
1963 o Minor features (unit testing):
1964 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
1965 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
1966 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
1967 logging for the unit tests.
1969 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1970 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1971 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1972 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1973 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1974 every time we change any piece of our config.
1975 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1976 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1977 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1979 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1980 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1981 the onion key from getting rotated.
1982 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
1983 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
1984 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
1987 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1988 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
1989 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
1991 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
1992 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
1993 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
1994 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
1997 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
1998 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
1999 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
2000 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
2001 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
2002 TorK, etc. Or worse.
2004 o Major security fixes:
2005 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2006 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2009 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
2010 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
2011 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
2012 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2014 o Major security fixes:
2015 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2016 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2018 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2019 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
2022 o Minor features (performance):
2023 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
2024 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
2025 performance-intensive.
2026 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2027 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
2028 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
2029 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
2030 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2031 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
2035 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
2036 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
2037 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
2038 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
2042 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
2043 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
2044 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
2045 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
2046 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
2048 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
2049 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
2050 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
2051 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
2053 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
2054 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
2055 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
2056 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
2057 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
2059 o Major features (experimental):
2060 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
2061 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
2062 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
2063 handling before it's ready for use.
2066 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
2067 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
2068 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
2069 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2070 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
2071 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
2073 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
2074 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
2075 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
2076 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
2077 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
2079 o Major bugfixes (directory):
2080 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
2081 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2083 o Minor features (controller):
2084 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
2085 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2086 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
2088 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
2090 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
2091 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
2093 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
2094 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
2095 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
2096 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
2097 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2098 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
2099 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
2102 o Minor features (misc):
2103 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
2105 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
2106 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
2107 the authority identity key.
2108 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
2110 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
2111 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
2112 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
2115 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
2116 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2117 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2118 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
2119 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2120 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2121 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2122 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2124 o Performance improvements:
2125 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
2127 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
2128 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
2131 o Deprecated and removed features:
2132 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
2133 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
2134 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
2135 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
2137 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2138 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
2139 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2140 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
2141 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
2142 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2143 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
2144 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
2145 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
2148 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2149 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
2150 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2151 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
2152 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
2154 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
2155 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
2158 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2159 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
2160 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
2161 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
2162 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
2163 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
2164 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
2165 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
2166 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
2169 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
2170 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
2171 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
2172 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
2174 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2175 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
2177 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2178 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
2179 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
2180 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
2181 routerlist while inserting a new router.
2182 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
2183 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
2185 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
2186 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
2187 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
2189 o Major bugfixes (security):
2190 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
2192 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
2193 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
2194 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
2195 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
2196 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
2197 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
2198 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
2199 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
2200 guard list unless we need to.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
2203 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
2204 don't get overused as guards.
2206 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2207 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
2208 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
2209 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
2210 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
2212 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2213 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
2214 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
2217 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2218 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2219 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
2220 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
2221 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
2222 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
2223 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
2224 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
2227 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
2228 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
2229 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
2230 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
2232 o Minor features (directory):
2233 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
2234 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
2235 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
2236 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
2238 o Minor build issues:
2239 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
2240 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
2241 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
2242 in the tarball, not as "x".
2245 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
2246 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
2247 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
2248 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
2249 forward on a lot of fronts.
2251 o Major features, server usability:
2252 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
2253 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
2254 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
2255 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
2257 o Major features, client usability:
2258 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
2259 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
2260 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
2261 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
2262 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
2263 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
2264 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
2265 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
2267 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
2268 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
2269 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
2270 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
2271 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
2272 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
2274 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
2275 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
2276 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
2278 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
2279 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
2280 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
2281 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
2282 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
2284 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
2285 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
2286 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
2287 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
2289 o Major features, other:
2290 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
2291 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
2292 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
2293 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
2294 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
2297 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
2298 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
2299 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
2302 o Minor fixes (resource management):
2303 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
2304 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
2305 our allocated connection limit.
2306 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
2307 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
2308 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
2309 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
2310 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
2312 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
2313 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
2314 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
2316 o Minor features (build):
2317 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
2318 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
2319 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
2320 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
2322 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
2323 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
2324 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
2325 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
2326 Use this version consistently in log messages.
2328 o Minor features (logging):
2329 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
2330 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
2331 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
2332 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
2333 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
2336 o Minor features (directory system):
2337 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
2338 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
2339 not to serve V2 directory information.
2340 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
2341 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
2342 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
2344 o Minor features (controller):
2345 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
2346 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
2348 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
2349 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
2350 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
2351 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
2352 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
2353 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
2355 o Minor features (hidden services):
2356 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
2357 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
2358 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
2359 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
2361 o Minor features (other):
2363 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
2364 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
2365 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
2366 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
2367 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
2368 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
2369 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
2370 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
2371 longer a completely silly thing to do.
2372 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
2373 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
2374 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
2375 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
2378 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
2379 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
2380 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
2381 back an error and close the connection.
2382 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
2383 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
2386 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2387 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
2388 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
2389 makes the log messages nicer.
2390 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
2391 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2392 partial results on small file reads.
2394 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2395 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
2396 more often than they are allowed to appear.
2397 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
2398 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2401 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
2402 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
2403 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
2405 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2406 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
2407 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
2408 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
2409 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
2410 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
2411 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
2412 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2413 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
2414 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
2415 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
2417 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
2418 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
2419 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
2421 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2422 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
2423 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
2424 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
2426 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2427 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
2428 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
2430 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
2431 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
2434 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2435 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
2436 implicit in other procedure arguments.
2437 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
2438 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
2439 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
2440 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
2441 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
2442 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
2443 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
2444 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
2445 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
2448 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
2449 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
2450 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
2451 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
2453 o Directory authority changes:
2454 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
2455 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
2456 or use hidden services.
2458 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2459 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
2460 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
2461 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
2462 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
2463 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
2464 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
2465 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
2466 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
2469 o Major bugfixes (security):
2470 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
2471 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
2472 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
2474 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
2475 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
2476 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
2477 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
2478 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
2479 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
2480 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
2481 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
2482 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
2483 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
2486 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
2488 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
2489 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
2491 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
2492 having a hard time downloading.
2493 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2494 partial results on small file reads.
2495 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
2496 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
2497 the gaps in the store get very large.
2500 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
2501 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
2503 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
2504 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
2507 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
2508 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
2509 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
2510 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
2511 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
2512 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
2514 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
2515 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
2516 free speech on the Internet.
2519 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
2520 get one we don't recognize.
2521 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2522 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
2525 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
2527 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
2528 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
2529 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
2530 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
2533 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
2534 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
2537 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
2538 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
2539 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
2540 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
2541 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
2542 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
2546 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
2547 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2548 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
2549 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
2550 on Win98 and friends again.
2552 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2553 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
2554 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
2557 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
2558 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2559 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
2560 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
2561 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
2562 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
2563 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
2564 and maybe also bug 397.)
2566 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2567 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
2568 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
2570 o Minor bugfixes (server):
2571 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
2574 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2575 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
2576 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
2577 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
2578 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
2580 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2581 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
2582 load on authorities.
2584 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2585 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
2586 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
2587 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
2589 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
2591 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
2592 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
2593 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
2594 the last of bug 326.)
2595 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
2596 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
2600 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
2601 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2602 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
2603 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
2604 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
2605 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
2606 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
2608 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
2609 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
2611 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2612 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
2613 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
2615 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
2616 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
2617 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
2619 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2620 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
2621 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
2622 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
2624 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
2625 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
2627 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
2628 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
2629 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
2632 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2633 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
2634 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
2635 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
2636 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
2637 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
2638 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
2639 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
2640 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
2641 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
2642 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
2643 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
2644 other than file-not-found.
2645 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
2646 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
2647 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
2648 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
2649 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
2650 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
2651 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
2652 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
2653 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
2654 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
2655 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
2656 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
2657 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
2658 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
2659 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
2661 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
2663 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
2664 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
2666 o Minor features (controller):
2667 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
2668 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
2669 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
2671 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
2672 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2673 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
2674 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
2675 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
2676 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
2677 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
2678 connected or resolved cell.
2680 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2681 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
2682 some profiles, but not others.)
2683 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
2684 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
2685 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
2688 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
2690 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
2691 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
2692 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
2693 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
2694 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
2695 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
2696 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
2697 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
2698 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
2699 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
2700 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
2701 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
2702 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
2703 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
2704 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
2706 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
2709 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
2710 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
2711 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
2712 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
2713 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
2714 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
2715 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
2717 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
2718 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
2719 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
2720 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
2721 buckets go absurdly negative.
2722 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
2723 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
2726 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
2727 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
2728 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
2729 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
2730 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
2731 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
2732 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
2733 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
2736 o Major bugfixes (other):
2737 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
2738 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
2739 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
2740 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
2742 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
2744 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
2745 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
2747 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
2748 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
2749 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
2750 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
2751 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
2754 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2755 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
2756 possible memory-stomping bugs.
2757 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
2758 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
2760 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
2761 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
2762 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
2763 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
2764 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
2765 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
2767 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2768 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
2769 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
2770 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
2772 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
2773 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
2774 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
2775 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
2776 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
2777 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
2778 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
2779 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
2780 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
2781 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
2782 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
2783 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
2784 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
2786 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
2787 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
2788 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
2789 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
2790 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
2791 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
2792 to the resulting address.
2795 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
2796 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
2797 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
2798 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
2801 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
2802 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
2804 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
2805 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
2806 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
2807 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
2808 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
2809 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
2810 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
2811 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
2812 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
2813 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
2814 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
2815 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
2816 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
2817 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
2818 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
2819 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
2820 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
2823 o Minor features (controller):
2824 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
2825 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
2826 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
2827 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
2828 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
2829 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
2830 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
2834 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
2836 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
2837 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
2838 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
2839 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
2840 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
2841 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
2844 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
2845 weren't planning to resolve.
2846 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
2847 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
2848 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
2849 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
2850 the controller from learning about current events.
2852 o Minor features (more controller status events):
2853 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
2854 learn when our address changes.
2855 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
2856 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
2857 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
2858 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
2860 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
2861 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
2862 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
2863 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
2864 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
2865 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
2866 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
2867 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
2868 are accepted by a directory.
2869 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
2870 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
2871 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
2872 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
2873 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
2875 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
2876 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
2877 about changes to DNS server status.
2879 o Minor features (directory):
2880 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
2881 too much load to the exit nodes.
2884 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
2886 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
2887 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
2888 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
2889 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
2890 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
2892 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
2893 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
2894 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
2896 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
2897 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
2898 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
2899 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
2900 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
2901 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
2902 config options if you like.
2904 o Minor features (config and docs):
2905 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
2906 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
2907 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
2908 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
2909 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
2911 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
2912 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
2913 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
2914 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
2915 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
2917 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
2918 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
2919 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
2920 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
2921 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
2922 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
2923 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
2924 documentation: "make check-docs".
2925 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
2926 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
2928 o Minor features (DNS):
2929 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
2930 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
2931 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
2932 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
2933 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
2934 our tests for DNS hijacking.
2936 o Minor features (directory):
2937 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
2938 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
2939 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
2940 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
2941 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
2942 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
2943 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
2944 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
2945 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
2946 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
2947 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
2948 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
2949 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
2950 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
2951 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
2952 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
2953 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
2954 for the thing we're trying to download.
2955 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
2956 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
2957 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
2959 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
2960 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
2961 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
2964 o Minor features (controller):
2965 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
2966 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
2968 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
2969 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
2970 entry guard status as it changes.
2972 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
2973 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
2974 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
2975 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
2977 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
2978 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
2979 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
2980 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
2983 o Major bugfixes (security):
2984 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
2985 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
2986 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
2987 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
2989 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
2990 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
2991 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
2992 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
2993 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
2995 o Major bugfixes (other):
2996 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
2997 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
2998 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
2999 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
3001 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
3002 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
3003 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
3004 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
3005 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
3006 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
3010 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3011 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3012 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
3013 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
3014 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
3016 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
3017 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
3019 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
3020 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
3021 family lists conveniently.
3022 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
3023 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
3024 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
3026 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
3027 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
3029 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
3030 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
3031 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
3032 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
3033 if their identity keys are as expected.
3034 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
3035 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
3036 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
3038 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3039 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
3040 reported by Mike Perry.
3041 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
3042 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
3043 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
3044 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
3047 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
3048 o Security bugfixes:
3049 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3050 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3051 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3052 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3056 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3057 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3058 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
3061 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
3063 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
3064 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
3065 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
3068 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
3069 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
3070 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
3071 watching for STREAM events.
3072 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
3073 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
3074 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
3075 operations, for profiling.
3078 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
3079 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
3080 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
3081 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
3082 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
3083 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
3085 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
3089 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3090 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3091 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
3092 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
3093 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
3095 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
3096 correctly in the Windows installer.
3097 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3098 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3099 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
3101 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
3102 when we're running as a client.
3105 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
3107 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
3108 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
3109 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
3110 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
3111 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3112 its circuits on demand.
3113 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
3114 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
3115 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
3116 connections more stable on average.
3117 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3118 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3119 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3121 o Security bugfixes:
3122 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3123 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3126 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3128 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
3129 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
3130 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3131 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3132 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3133 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3134 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3135 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3138 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
3140 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
3141 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
3142 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
3143 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
3144 routers for even longer.
3145 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
3146 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
3147 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
3148 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
3149 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
3150 caching HTTP proxies.
3151 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
3154 o Minor features, controller:
3155 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
3156 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
3157 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
3158 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
3160 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
3161 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
3162 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
3163 working much like those for circuit events.
3164 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
3165 about the current status of a router.
3166 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
3167 a router's status has changed.
3168 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
3169 can tell which events and features are supported.
3170 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
3171 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
3173 o Security bugfixes:
3174 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3175 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3178 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
3179 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
3180 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
3181 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
3182 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3183 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
3184 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
3185 long nicknames where appropriate.
3186 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
3187 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
3188 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
3189 chews through many circuits before giving up.
3190 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
3191 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
3192 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
3193 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
3194 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
3195 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
3197 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
3198 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
3199 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
3201 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
3202 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
3203 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
3204 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
3205 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
3206 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
3207 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
3208 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
3209 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
3210 (reported by fookoowa).
3211 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
3212 and reported by some Centos users.
3213 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
3214 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
3215 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
3216 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
3217 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
3218 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
3219 before we check for libevent.
3222 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
3224 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
3225 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
3226 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
3227 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
3228 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
3229 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
3230 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
3231 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
3232 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
3233 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
3234 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
3235 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
3236 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
3237 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
3238 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
3239 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
3240 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
3241 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
3242 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
3243 lets you turn it off.
3244 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
3245 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
3246 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
3247 us into the directory more quickly.
3249 o New/improved config options:
3250 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
3251 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
3252 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
3253 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
3254 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
3255 all the machines on the same subnet.
3256 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
3257 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
3258 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
3259 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
3260 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
3261 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
3262 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
3263 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
3264 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
3265 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
3267 o Minor features, controller:
3268 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
3269 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
3270 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
3271 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
3272 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
3273 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
3274 for more information.
3275 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
3276 best guess to the user.
3277 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
3278 descriptor has changed.
3279 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
3281 o Minor features, other:
3282 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
3283 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
3284 useful to the network.
3285 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
3286 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
3287 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
3288 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
3289 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
3290 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
3291 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
3292 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
3293 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
3294 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
3295 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
3296 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
3297 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
3298 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
3299 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
3301 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
3302 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
3303 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
3304 could return an unnamed server instead.
3305 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
3306 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
3307 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
3308 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
3309 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
3310 a more attractive target for compromise.)
3311 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
3312 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
3313 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
3315 o Major bugfixes, other:
3316 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
3317 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
3318 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
3319 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
3320 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3321 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3322 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
3323 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3324 its circuits on demand.
3325 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
3326 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3327 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3328 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3330 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
3331 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3332 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3334 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3336 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
3337 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
3338 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3339 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
3340 "extendcircuit" request.
3341 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3342 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3343 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
3345 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
3346 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
3347 instead of "X resolved to X".
3348 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
3349 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
3350 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
3351 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
3352 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
3353 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
3354 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
3355 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
3356 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
3358 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
3359 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
3360 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
3361 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
3362 result more than once.
3363 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
3364 non-versioning dirservers.
3365 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
3366 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
3368 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
3369 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
3370 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
3371 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
3372 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
3373 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
3374 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
3375 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
3376 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
3378 o Packaging, features:
3379 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
3380 now universal binaries.
3381 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
3382 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
3383 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
3385 o Packaging, bugfixes:
3386 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
3387 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
3388 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
3389 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
3391 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
3392 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
3393 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
3396 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
3397 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
3398 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
3402 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
3404 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3405 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3406 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
3407 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
3408 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
3409 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
3410 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
3411 it can't resolve its hostname.
3414 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3415 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
3416 "extendcircuit" request.
3417 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3418 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3419 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3420 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3422 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
3423 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
3424 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
3426 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
3427 methods: these are known to be buggy.
3428 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3429 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3433 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
3435 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
3436 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
3437 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
3438 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
3439 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
3440 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
3441 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
3442 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
3443 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
3444 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
3445 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
3446 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
3447 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
3448 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
3449 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
3450 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
3451 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
3452 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
3453 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
3454 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
3455 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
3456 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
3457 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
3458 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
3461 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
3462 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
3463 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
3464 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
3465 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
3466 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
3467 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
3468 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
3469 recommendation system saner.)
3470 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
3472 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
3473 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
3474 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
3475 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
3476 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
3477 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
3478 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
3479 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
3480 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
3481 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
3482 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
3483 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
3485 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
3486 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
3487 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
3488 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
3489 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
3490 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
3491 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
3492 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
3493 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
3494 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
3495 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
3496 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
3498 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
3499 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
3500 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
3501 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
3502 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
3503 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
3506 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
3507 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
3508 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
3509 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
3510 our DirPort now, etc.
3511 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3512 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
3513 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
3514 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
3515 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
3516 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3517 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3519 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
3520 whether the config options are bad or good.
3521 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
3522 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
3523 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
3524 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
3525 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
3526 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
3527 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
3528 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
3531 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
3532 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
3533 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
3534 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
3535 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
3536 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
3537 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
3538 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
3539 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
3540 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
3541 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
3542 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
3543 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
3544 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
3545 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
3546 of it), is not therefore "up".
3547 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
3548 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
3549 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
3550 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
3551 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
3552 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
3555 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
3557 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
3558 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
3559 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
3560 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
3561 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
3562 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
3563 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
3564 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
3565 test reachability, so you won't publish.
3568 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
3569 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
3570 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
3571 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
3572 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
3574 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
3575 own server descriptor yet.
3578 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
3580 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
3581 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
3582 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
3583 make sure to test via one of these.
3584 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
3585 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
3586 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
3587 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
3588 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
3590 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
3591 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
3592 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
3595 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
3596 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
3597 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
3598 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
3599 directory authority.
3600 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
3601 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
3602 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
3603 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
3606 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
3607 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
3608 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
3610 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
3611 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
3612 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
3613 current guards when picking a new guard.
3614 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
3615 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
3616 when we had more than one pending.
3617 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
3618 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
3619 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
3620 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
3621 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
3622 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
3623 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
3624 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
3625 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
3626 debug the reachability problems better.
3628 o Log / documentation fixes:
3629 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
3630 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
3631 about protocol violations by others.
3632 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
3633 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
3634 about what happened to our old torrc.
3637 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
3639 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
3641 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
3642 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
3643 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
3644 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
3647 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
3649 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
3650 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
3651 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
3652 old ORPort and receive connections.
3653 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
3655 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
3656 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
3657 and network-statuses.
3658 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
3659 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
3660 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
3661 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
3663 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
3666 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
3667 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
3668 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
3671 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
3673 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
3674 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
3675 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
3676 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
3677 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
3680 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
3681 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
3683 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
3684 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
3685 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
3686 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
3687 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
3688 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
3689 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
3690 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
3691 rather than not sending anything back at all.
3692 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
3693 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
3694 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
3695 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
3696 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
3697 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
3698 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
3699 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
3700 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
3701 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
3702 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
3703 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
3704 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
3705 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
3706 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
3707 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
3708 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
3709 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
3710 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
3711 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
3712 default ulimit -n is 1024.
3715 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
3716 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
3717 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
3718 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
3721 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
3723 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
3724 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
3725 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
3726 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
3727 entry guards running these flawed versions.
3728 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
3729 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
3730 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
3731 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
3732 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
3735 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
3736 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
3738 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
3739 and it is confusing some users.
3740 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
3741 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
3742 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
3743 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
3744 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
3747 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
3749 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
3750 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
3751 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
3752 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
3753 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
3754 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
3755 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
3756 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
3757 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
3758 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
3759 dirport is set for now.
3761 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
3762 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
3763 unattached before we fail it?
3764 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
3765 at least this many seconds ago.
3766 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
3767 at least this many seconds ago.
3770 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
3771 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
3772 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
3773 or resolve-wait stream.
3774 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
3775 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
3776 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
3777 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
3778 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
3779 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
3780 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
3781 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
3783 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
3784 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
3785 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
3786 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
3787 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
3788 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
3789 given as hex digests.
3790 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
3791 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
3792 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
3793 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
3794 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
3795 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
3796 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
3797 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
3800 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3801 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
3802 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
3803 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
3804 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
3805 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
3806 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
3807 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
3808 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
3809 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
3810 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
3813 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
3814 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
3815 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
3816 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
3817 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
3818 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
3819 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
3822 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
3823 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
3824 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
3825 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
3826 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
3827 misreading their logs.
3828 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
3829 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
3830 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
3831 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
3832 valid router descriptors.
3833 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
3834 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
3835 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
3836 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
3837 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
3838 silently resetting it to its default.
3839 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
3841 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
3844 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
3846 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
3847 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
3848 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
3849 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
3850 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
3852 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
3853 because older Tors do not understand it.
3854 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
3858 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
3859 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3860 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
3861 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
3862 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
3863 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
3864 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
3865 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
3866 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
3867 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
3868 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
3870 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
3871 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
3872 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
3873 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
3875 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
3876 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
3879 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
3880 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
3881 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
3882 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
3883 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
3884 without getting overloaded.
3885 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
3887 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
3888 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
3889 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
3890 be forward-compatible.
3891 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
3892 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
3893 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
3894 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
3896 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
3897 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
3898 and OR conns to port 443.
3899 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
3900 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
3902 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
3903 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
3904 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
3905 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
3906 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
3907 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
3908 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
3911 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
3912 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3913 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
3914 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
3916 o Other important bugfixes:
3917 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
3918 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
3919 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
3920 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
3922 o Backported features:
3923 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
3924 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
3925 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
3926 without getting overloaded.
3927 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
3928 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
3929 503's whenever they feel busy.
3930 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
3931 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
3932 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
3933 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
3934 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
3937 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
3938 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
3939 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
3940 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
3941 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
3942 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
3943 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
3944 know if the crashes continue.
3945 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
3946 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
3947 seg faults in at least some cases.)
3948 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
3949 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
3950 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
3953 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
3954 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
3955 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
3956 try to be a bit more fair.
3957 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
3958 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
3959 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
3960 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
3961 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
3962 bug that let it go negative.
3963 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
3964 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
3965 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
3966 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
3967 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
3968 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
3969 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
3970 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
3971 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
3972 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
3973 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
3976 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
3978 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
3979 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
3980 service descriptors.
3983 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
3984 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
3985 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
3986 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
3988 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
3989 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
3990 versions *are* still recommended.
3991 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
3992 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
3993 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
3994 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
3995 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
3996 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
3997 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
3998 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
4000 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
4001 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
4002 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
4003 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
4004 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
4005 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
4006 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
4007 on it. Not used by clients yet.
4008 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
4009 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
4010 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
4011 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
4012 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
4013 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
4014 established a circuit.
4015 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
4016 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
4017 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
4018 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
4021 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
4022 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4023 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
4024 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
4025 quickly enough. Oops.
4026 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
4028 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4029 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
4032 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
4033 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4034 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
4035 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
4036 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
4037 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
4038 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
4039 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
4040 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
4041 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
4042 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
4043 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
4044 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
4045 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
4046 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
4047 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
4048 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
4051 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
4052 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
4053 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
4054 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
4055 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
4056 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
4057 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
4058 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
4059 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
4060 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
4061 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
4062 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
4063 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
4064 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
4065 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
4066 connections more reliable.
4069 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
4070 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
4071 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
4072 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
4073 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
4074 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
4075 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
4076 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
4077 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
4078 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
4079 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
4080 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
4081 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
4082 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
4086 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
4087 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
4088 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
4089 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
4090 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
4091 need to be uint64_t's.
4092 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
4093 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
4094 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
4096 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
4098 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
4099 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
4100 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
4101 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
4102 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
4103 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
4104 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
4106 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
4107 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
4108 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
4109 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
4110 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
4111 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
4112 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
4113 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
4114 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
4115 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
4116 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
4117 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
4118 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
4121 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
4122 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
4123 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
4124 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
4125 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
4126 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
4127 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
4129 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
4130 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
4131 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
4132 can answer v2 directory requests too.
4133 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
4134 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
4135 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
4136 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
4138 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
4139 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
4140 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
4141 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
4142 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
4143 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
4144 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
4145 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
4146 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
4147 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
4148 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
4149 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
4150 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
4151 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
4152 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
4154 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
4155 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
4158 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
4159 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4160 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4161 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4162 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4163 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
4164 too -- so detect and avoid this.
4165 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
4167 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
4168 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4169 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4170 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
4171 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
4172 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4173 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4174 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
4175 rendezvous circuits.
4176 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
4178 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4179 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
4180 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
4181 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
4182 advertising it because of hibernation.
4183 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
4184 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4185 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4186 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4187 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4188 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4189 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
4190 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
4191 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
4192 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
4193 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
4194 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
4195 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
4196 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
4199 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
4200 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4201 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4202 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4203 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4204 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
4205 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
4206 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4207 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4208 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4209 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4210 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4211 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4212 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4213 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
4214 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
4215 connections once a week.
4216 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4217 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4218 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
4219 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
4220 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
4221 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
4223 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
4224 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
4225 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
4227 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4228 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
4229 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
4230 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
4231 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
4232 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
4233 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
4234 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
4235 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
4236 firewall options forbid.
4237 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
4238 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
4239 can only proxy to certain destinations.
4240 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
4241 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
4242 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
4243 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
4244 aids some statistical attacks.
4245 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
4246 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
4247 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
4248 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
4250 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4251 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
4252 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
4253 server descriptor sometimes.
4254 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
4255 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
4256 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
4257 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
4258 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
4259 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
4260 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
4261 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
4263 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
4264 case the controller wants to change that too.
4265 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
4266 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
4267 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
4268 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
4270 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
4271 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
4272 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
4274 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
4275 descriptors that they know they will reject.
4277 o Features and updates:
4278 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
4279 significantly faster.
4280 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
4281 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
4282 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
4283 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
4284 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
4285 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
4286 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
4287 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
4288 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
4289 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
4290 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
4291 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
4292 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
4293 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
4294 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
4295 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
4296 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
4297 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
4298 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
4299 as authoritative dirserver.
4300 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
4301 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
4302 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
4305 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
4306 o Usability improvements:
4307 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
4308 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
4310 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
4311 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
4312 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
4314 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
4315 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
4316 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
4317 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
4318 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
4319 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
4320 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
4321 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
4322 memory leaks better.
4323 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
4324 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
4325 their operators to pay close attention.
4326 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
4327 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
4329 o Performance improvements:
4330 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
4331 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
4332 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
4333 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
4334 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
4335 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
4336 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
4337 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
4338 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
4339 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
4340 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
4341 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
4342 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
4343 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
4344 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
4345 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
4346 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
4348 o Security improvements:
4349 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
4350 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
4351 fingerprint of server.
4352 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
4353 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
4354 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
4356 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4357 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
4358 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
4359 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
4360 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
4361 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
4362 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
4363 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
4364 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
4365 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
4366 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
4367 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
4368 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
4369 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
4370 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
4371 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
4372 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
4373 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
4374 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
4375 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
4376 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
4378 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
4379 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
4380 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
4382 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
4383 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
4385 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
4386 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
4387 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
4388 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
4389 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
4390 of the controller protocol.
4391 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
4392 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
4393 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
4396 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
4397 o New features (major):
4398 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
4399 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
4400 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
4401 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
4402 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
4403 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
4404 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
4405 we're using a default DirPort.
4406 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
4408 o New features (minor):
4409 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
4410 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
4411 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
4412 mirrors still cache and serve it).
4413 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
4414 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
4415 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
4416 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
4417 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
4418 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
4419 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
4420 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
4421 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
4422 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
4423 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
4424 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
4425 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
4426 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
4427 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
4429 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
4430 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
4431 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
4432 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
4433 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
4434 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
4435 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
4436 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
4438 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
4439 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
4440 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
4441 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
4442 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
4443 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
4444 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
4445 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
4446 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
4447 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
4449 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
4450 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4451 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4452 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4453 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4456 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
4457 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
4459 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
4460 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
4462 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
4463 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
4464 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
4465 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
4466 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
4467 don't warn twice about the same name.
4468 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
4469 if we've not heard of the server.
4470 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
4471 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
4474 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
4475 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4476 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
4477 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4478 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4479 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4480 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4481 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
4482 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
4483 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4484 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4485 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
4486 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
4487 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
4488 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
4491 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
4492 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
4493 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
4494 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
4495 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
4497 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
4498 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
4499 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
4500 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
4501 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
4502 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
4506 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
4507 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
4508 nickname) is reachable by you.
4509 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
4513 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
4514 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
4515 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
4516 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
4517 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
4518 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
4519 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
4520 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
4521 we fail to connect).
4522 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
4523 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
4524 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
4525 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
4527 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
4528 it was self-testing that told us so.
4531 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
4532 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
4533 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4534 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4535 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
4536 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
4537 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
4538 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
4539 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
4540 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
4541 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
4542 exit policy using him for any exits.
4543 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
4546 o New controller features/fixes:
4547 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
4548 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
4549 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
4550 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
4551 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
4552 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
4553 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
4554 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
4555 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
4557 o Start on the new directory design:
4558 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
4559 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
4561 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
4562 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
4563 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
4564 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
4566 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
4567 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
4568 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
4569 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
4570 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
4571 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
4572 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
4573 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
4576 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
4577 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
4578 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
4579 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
4580 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
4581 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
4582 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
4583 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
4584 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
4585 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
4587 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
4588 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
4589 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
4590 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
4591 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
4592 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
4593 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
4594 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
4595 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
4597 o Config option changes:
4598 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
4599 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
4600 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
4601 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4602 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4603 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
4606 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
4607 people have started using them for spam too.
4608 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
4609 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
4610 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
4611 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
4612 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
4613 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
4614 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
4615 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
4616 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
4617 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
4618 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
4619 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
4620 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
4621 services faster on the service end.
4622 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
4623 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
4624 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
4625 it a fair shake next time we try.
4626 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
4627 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
4628 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
4629 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
4630 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
4631 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
4632 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
4633 able to discover them.
4634 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
4635 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
4636 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
4637 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
4638 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
4639 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
4640 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
4641 testing for reachability.
4642 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
4643 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
4645 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
4647 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
4648 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
4651 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
4652 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
4654 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4655 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
4656 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
4657 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
4660 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
4661 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4662 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
4664 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
4665 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
4668 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
4669 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
4672 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
4673 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
4674 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
4675 options, getinfo keys.
4678 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
4679 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4680 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
4681 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4682 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4683 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
4684 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
4686 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
4687 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
4691 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
4692 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4693 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
4695 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
4697 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
4698 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
4699 circuit events and we go offline.
4700 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
4701 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
4702 you don't have enough intro points already.
4704 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4705 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
4706 many bytes we've used in this time period.
4707 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
4708 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
4709 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
4710 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
4711 enabled by default yet.
4713 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
4714 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
4715 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
4716 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4717 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4720 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
4721 o New directory servers:
4722 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4724 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4725 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4726 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4728 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
4729 claims its dirport is 0.
4730 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
4731 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
4735 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
4736 o New directory servers:
4737 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4739 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
4740 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
4742 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
4743 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
4744 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
4745 ports that have changed.
4746 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4748 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
4749 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
4750 Windows-style errno back.
4751 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
4753 want to make it an NT service.
4754 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
4755 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
4756 name, give the full name in our response.
4757 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
4758 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
4759 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
4760 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4764 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
4768 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
4769 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
4770 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
4771 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
4772 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
4775 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
4776 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4777 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
4778 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
4779 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4780 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4781 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4782 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
4785 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
4787 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4788 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4789 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4790 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
4791 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
4792 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
4794 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
4795 temporarily unreachable.
4796 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
4800 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
4801 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
4802 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
4804 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
4808 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
4809 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
4810 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
4811 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
4812 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
4816 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
4817 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
4818 libevent before 1.1a.
4821 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
4823 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
4824 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
4825 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
4826 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
4827 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
4829 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
4830 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
4831 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
4832 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
4833 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
4834 of CPU time plus memory.
4835 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
4836 normal web requests.
4837 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
4838 tor_lookup_hostname().
4839 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
4840 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
4841 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
4842 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
4843 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
4844 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
4846 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
4847 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
4848 HttpProxyAuthenticator
4849 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
4850 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
4851 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
4853 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
4854 the user asks you to.
4855 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
4856 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
4857 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
4858 their descriptors are being rejected.
4859 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
4863 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
4865 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
4866 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
4867 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
4869 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
4871 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
4873 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
4874 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
4875 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
4876 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
4877 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
4878 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
4879 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
4880 keys) from the exit server's process.
4881 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
4882 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
4883 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
4884 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
4885 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
4886 point at your Tor server.
4887 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
4888 you're not sending a socks reply back.
4891 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
4892 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
4893 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
4894 to make it easier to write controllers.
4897 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
4899 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
4900 installing on Tiger.
4901 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
4902 complain during installation.
4903 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
4904 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
4905 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
4906 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
4907 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
4908 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
4910 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
4911 something more reasonable when first installing.
4912 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
4915 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
4917 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
4918 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
4920 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
4921 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
4922 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
4923 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
4924 when using the default exit policy.
4925 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
4926 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
4927 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
4928 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
4929 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
4930 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
4931 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
4932 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
4933 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
4934 we fetched a new directory.
4935 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
4936 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
4939 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
4940 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
4941 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
4942 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
4943 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
4944 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
4945 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
4946 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
4948 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
4949 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
4950 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
4951 save memory on systems that need to fork.
4952 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
4953 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
4954 is valid without actually launching Tor.
4955 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
4956 rather than just rejecting it.
4959 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
4961 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
4962 we didn't like its cert.
4964 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
4965 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
4966 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
4967 on patch from Adam Langley.
4968 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
4969 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
4970 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
4971 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
4973 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
4974 directory every time you regenerate it.
4975 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
4976 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
4979 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
4980 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4981 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
4982 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
4983 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
4986 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
4988 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
4989 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
4990 TLS errors better in other situations too.
4991 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
4992 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
4993 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
4994 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
4995 and don't log when you are.
4996 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
4997 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
4999 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
5000 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
5001 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
5002 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
5003 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
5006 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
5007 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5008 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
5009 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
5010 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
5011 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
5012 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
5013 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
5014 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
5015 nickname+key are allowed.
5016 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
5017 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
5018 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
5019 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
5020 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
5021 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
5022 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
5023 have quite wrong clocks).
5024 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
5025 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
5026 - Efficiency improvements:
5027 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
5028 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
5029 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
5030 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
5031 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
5032 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
5033 lowercase and be done with it.
5034 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
5035 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
5036 to abandon partially built circuits.
5037 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
5038 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
5040 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
5042 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
5043 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
5044 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
5045 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
5047 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
5048 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
5050 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5051 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
5052 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
5053 obeying the exit policy internally.
5054 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
5055 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
5057 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
5058 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
5059 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
5060 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
5062 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
5063 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
5064 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
5065 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
5066 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
5068 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
5069 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
5070 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
5071 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
5072 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
5073 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
5074 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
5075 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
5076 descriptors we just dropped.
5077 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
5078 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
5079 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
5080 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
5081 artificially capped at 500kB.
5084 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
5085 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5086 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
5087 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
5088 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
5089 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
5090 busy for more than 100 seconds.
5093 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
5094 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
5095 - Fixes on reachability detection:
5096 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
5097 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
5098 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
5099 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
5100 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
5101 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
5102 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
5103 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
5104 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
5105 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
5106 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
5107 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
5108 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
5109 server not already connected to them.
5110 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
5111 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
5112 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
5114 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
5116 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
5117 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
5118 are in a different state than they actually are.
5119 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
5120 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
5121 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
5123 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
5124 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
5125 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
5127 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
5128 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
5129 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
5130 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
5131 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
5132 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
5133 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
5135 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
5136 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
5137 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
5138 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
5141 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
5142 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5143 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
5144 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
5145 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
5146 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
5147 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
5148 creating actual system users.
5149 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
5150 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
5154 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
5156 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
5157 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
5158 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
5159 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
5160 hidden services better.
5161 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
5163 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
5164 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
5165 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
5166 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
5167 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
5168 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
5169 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
5170 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
5171 patch by Matt Edman).
5172 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
5173 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
5174 required exit node for certain sites.
5175 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
5176 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
5177 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
5178 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
5179 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
5180 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
5181 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
5182 rather than just "success" or "failure".
5183 - A more sane version numbering system. See
5184 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
5185 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
5186 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
5188 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
5189 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
5190 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
5191 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
5192 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
5193 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
5194 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
5196 o Robustness/stability fixes:
5197 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
5198 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
5199 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
5201 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
5202 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
5203 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
5205 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
5206 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
5207 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
5209 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
5210 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
5211 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
5212 that will want high uptime circuits.
5213 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
5214 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
5215 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
5216 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
5217 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
5218 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
5219 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
5220 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
5221 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
5222 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
5223 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
5224 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
5225 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
5226 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
5227 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
5228 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
5229 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
5230 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
5231 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
5232 when we try to launch one.
5233 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
5234 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
5235 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
5236 "ShutdownWaitLength".
5237 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
5238 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
5239 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
5240 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
5241 and to take errno into account where possible.
5244 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
5245 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
5246 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
5247 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
5248 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
5249 file more reasonable.
5250 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
5251 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
5252 addresses -- it won't.
5253 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
5254 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
5255 for google.com" problem.
5256 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
5257 so it's not just "unknown platform".
5258 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
5259 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
5260 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
5261 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
5263 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
5264 they could use instead.
5265 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
5266 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
5267 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
5268 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
5269 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
5270 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
5271 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
5272 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
5273 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
5275 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
5279 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
5280 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
5282 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
5283 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
5284 private-IP addresses.
5285 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
5286 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
5288 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
5289 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
5290 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
5291 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
5292 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
5293 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
5294 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
5296 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
5297 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
5298 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
5299 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
5300 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
5301 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
5302 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
5303 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
5305 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
5307 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
5308 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
5309 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
5310 whether the server is hibernating.
5313 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
5314 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
5315 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
5316 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
5317 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
5318 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
5319 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
5320 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
5321 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
5322 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
5323 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
5324 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
5325 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
5326 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
5327 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
5329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
5330 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
5331 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
5332 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
5333 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
5334 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
5335 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
5336 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
5337 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
5338 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
5339 existing torrc files.
5340 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
5343 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
5344 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5345 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
5346 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
5347 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
5348 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
5349 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
5350 the win32 SYSTEM account.
5351 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
5352 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
5353 file descriptors available.
5354 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
5355 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
5356 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
5359 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
5360 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5361 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
5362 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
5364 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
5365 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
5366 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
5367 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
5368 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
5370 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
5371 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
5372 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
5373 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
5374 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
5375 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
5376 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
5377 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
5378 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
5379 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
5380 800kB/s of capacity.
5381 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
5384 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
5385 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5386 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
5387 need as much processor time.
5388 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
5389 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
5390 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
5391 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
5392 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
5393 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
5394 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
5395 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
5396 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
5397 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
5398 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
5399 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
5401 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
5402 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
5403 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
5404 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
5405 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
5406 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
5407 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
5410 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
5411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
5412 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
5414 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
5415 style address, then we'd crash.
5416 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
5417 a dirserver is broken.
5418 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
5420 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
5421 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
5422 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
5424 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
5425 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
5426 name out of the warning/assert messages.
5427 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
5428 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
5429 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
5431 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
5432 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
5433 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
5435 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
5437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
5438 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
5439 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
5440 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
5441 values at once couldn't work.
5442 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
5443 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
5444 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
5445 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
5446 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
5447 they can handle any number of routers.
5448 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
5449 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
5450 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
5451 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
5452 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
5453 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
5454 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
5455 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
5456 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
5459 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
5460 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5461 - Make hibernation actually work.
5462 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
5463 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
5464 don't use the stream status code.
5467 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
5469 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
5470 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
5472 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
5475 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
5476 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
5477 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
5478 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
5479 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
5480 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
5481 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
5482 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
5483 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
5484 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
5486 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5487 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
5488 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
5489 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
5490 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
5491 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
5492 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
5493 - Make unit tests work on win32.
5496 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
5497 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5498 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
5500 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
5501 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
5502 than just chopping them off.
5503 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
5505 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5506 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
5507 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
5508 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
5509 right after sending the begin cell.
5510 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
5511 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
5512 exit nodes too. Oops.
5515 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
5516 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
5517 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
5518 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
5519 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
5520 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
5521 the user knows which one it's talking about.
5522 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
5523 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
5524 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
5527 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
5528 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5529 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
5530 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
5532 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
5534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5535 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
5536 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
5538 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
5539 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
5540 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
5541 Clip rather than rejecting.
5542 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
5543 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
5546 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
5547 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
5548 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
5549 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
5551 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
5554 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
5555 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5556 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
5557 win32 socket errors better.
5559 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5560 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
5563 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
5564 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5565 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
5566 so we don't see those messages days later.
5568 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5569 - Make tor-resolve work again.
5570 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
5571 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
5574 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
5575 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5576 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
5577 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
5579 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
5580 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
5581 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
5584 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
5585 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5586 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
5587 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
5588 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
5589 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
5590 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
5591 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
5592 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
5594 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
5595 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
5596 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
5597 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
5599 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
5600 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
5603 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
5604 hibernation properties by
5605 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
5606 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
5607 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
5608 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
5609 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
5610 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
5611 get back to normal.)
5612 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
5614 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
5615 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
5616 to fill the last cell completely.
5617 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
5620 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
5621 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5622 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
5623 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
5624 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
5625 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
5626 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
5627 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
5628 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
5629 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
5630 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
5632 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
5633 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
5634 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
5635 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
5636 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
5637 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
5638 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
5639 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
5641 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
5642 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
5643 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
5644 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
5645 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
5646 have it on start-up.
5649 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
5650 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
5651 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
5652 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
5653 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
5654 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
5655 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
5656 configuration to torrc.
5657 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
5658 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
5659 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
5660 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
5661 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
5663 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
5664 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
5665 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
5666 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
5667 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
5668 log more informatively.
5669 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
5670 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
5671 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
5672 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
5673 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
5674 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
5675 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
5676 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
5677 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
5678 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
5679 from each other, to hinder linkability.
5682 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
5683 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
5684 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
5685 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
5686 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
5687 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
5688 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
5690 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
5691 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
5692 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
5693 they ran out of file descriptors.
5694 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
5695 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
5696 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
5697 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
5698 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
5699 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
5700 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
5702 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
5705 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
5706 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
5707 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
5708 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
5709 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
5710 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
5711 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
5712 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
5713 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
5714 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
5715 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
5716 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
5717 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
5718 with the control port.
5719 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
5720 use in authenticating to the control interface.
5721 - New log format in config:
5722 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
5723 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
5726 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
5727 from their dirserver.
5728 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
5730 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
5731 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
5732 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
5733 them act more like real nodes.
5734 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
5735 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
5737 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
5738 nickname to its identity key.
5739 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
5740 not on the command line.
5741 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
5742 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
5743 1024) file descriptors.
5745 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
5746 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
5748 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
5749 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
5750 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
5753 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
5754 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
5755 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
5756 exit policy, not reject *:*.
5757 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
5758 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
5759 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
5760 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
5761 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
5762 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
5763 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
5766 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
5767 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
5768 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
5769 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
5770 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
5771 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
5772 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
5775 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
5776 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5777 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
5778 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
5779 the ones we find in directories.)
5780 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
5782 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
5783 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
5785 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
5786 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
5787 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
5789 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
5790 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
5791 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
5792 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
5794 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
5795 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
5796 any more exit policy lines.
5799 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
5800 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
5801 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
5802 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
5803 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
5804 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
5805 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
5806 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
5807 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
5808 will be able to get a directory.
5809 - Http proxy support
5810 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
5811 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
5812 be routed through this host.
5813 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
5814 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
5815 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
5816 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
5819 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
5821 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
5822 clients/servers with an open dirport.
5823 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
5824 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
5825 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5826 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5827 intermittent connections.
5828 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
5829 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
5831 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
5832 in reporting stats locally.
5833 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
5834 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
5835 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
5838 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
5840 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
5841 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
5844 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
5846 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
5847 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
5848 if you don't want it open.
5849 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5850 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
5851 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5852 intermittent connections.
5853 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
5855 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
5856 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
5857 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
5858 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
5859 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
5860 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
5861 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
5862 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
5863 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
5864 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
5865 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
5866 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
5867 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
5868 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
5869 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
5870 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
5873 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
5874 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
5875 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
5876 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
5877 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
5879 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
5881 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
5882 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
5883 specified in HTTP 1.0.
5884 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
5885 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
5886 than once per minute.
5887 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
5888 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
5891 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
5892 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
5895 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
5896 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
5897 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
5898 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
5901 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
5902 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
5904 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
5905 don't put it into the client dns cache.
5906 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
5907 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
5908 until we get our next directory.
5910 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
5911 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
5912 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
5913 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
5914 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
5915 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
5916 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
5917 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
5918 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
5919 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
5920 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
5922 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
5924 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
5925 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
5927 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
5928 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
5929 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
5931 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
5933 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
5934 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
5935 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
5936 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
5937 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
5938 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
5939 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
5940 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
5943 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
5944 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
5945 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
5946 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
5949 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
5950 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
5951 ask them to resolve the host "".
5954 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
5955 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
5956 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
5957 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
5958 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
5959 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
5960 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
5961 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
5962 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
5963 clients don't use this yet.)
5964 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
5965 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
5966 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
5967 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
5968 for pointing out this bug.)
5969 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
5970 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
5971 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
5972 kazaa, gnutella ports.
5973 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
5975 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
5976 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
5977 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
5978 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
5979 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
5980 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
5981 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
5982 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
5983 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
5985 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
5986 that's still handshaking.
5987 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
5988 you'll choose it for your path.
5989 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
5990 end relay cell, etc.
5991 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
5992 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
5993 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
5996 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
5997 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
5999 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
6000 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
6001 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
6002 list to decide who's running or verified.
6003 - Bugfixes and features:
6004 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
6005 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
6006 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
6007 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
6008 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
6009 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
6011 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
6012 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
6013 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
6014 know you might want to get it verified.
6015 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
6018 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
6020 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
6021 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
6022 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
6023 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
6026 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
6027 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
6028 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
6029 hadn't heard of before.
6032 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
6033 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
6034 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
6035 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
6036 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
6037 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
6038 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
6039 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
6040 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
6041 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
6042 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
6043 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
6044 - Directory caching.
6045 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
6046 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
6047 directory they've pulled down.
6048 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
6049 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
6050 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
6051 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
6052 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
6053 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
6054 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
6056 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
6057 This isn't used yet.
6058 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
6059 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
6060 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
6061 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
6062 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
6063 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
6064 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
6065 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
6066 - File and name management:
6067 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
6068 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
6070 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
6071 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
6072 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
6073 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
6074 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
6075 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
6076 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
6078 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
6079 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
6080 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
6081 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
6082 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
6084 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
6085 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
6086 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
6087 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
6088 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
6089 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
6090 - New docs in the tarball:
6092 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
6095 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
6096 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
6097 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
6100 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
6101 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
6102 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
6105 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
6106 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
6109 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
6110 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
6111 - Make it build on Win32 again.
6112 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
6113 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
6117 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
6119 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
6120 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
6121 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
6122 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
6123 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
6124 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
6125 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
6126 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
6127 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
6128 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
6131 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
6134 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
6135 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
6136 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
6137 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
6139 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
6140 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
6141 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
6143 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
6144 hidden service per 15-minute period.
6145 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
6146 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
6147 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
6148 o Fixes for security bugs:
6149 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
6150 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
6151 a trusted dirserver.
6153 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
6154 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
6155 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
6156 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
6157 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
6158 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
6159 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
6160 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
6161 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
6162 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
6164 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
6165 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
6166 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
6167 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
6169 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
6170 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
6171 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
6172 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
6173 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
6174 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
6175 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
6176 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
6177 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
6178 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
6179 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
6180 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
6181 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
6184 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
6185 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
6186 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
6187 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6190 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
6191 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
6192 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
6193 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
6194 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
6195 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6196 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
6200 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
6204 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
6205 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
6206 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
6207 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
6208 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
6210 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
6213 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
6214 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
6215 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
6216 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
6217 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
6218 o Better debugging for tls errors
6219 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
6220 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
6221 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
6222 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
6223 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
6224 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
6225 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
6226 o win32's close can't close a socket.
6229 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
6230 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
6231 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
6232 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
6233 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
6234 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
6235 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
6236 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
6237 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
6238 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
6239 just close the circ.
6240 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
6241 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
6242 (this was quite rare).
6245 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
6246 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
6247 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
6248 if you decrypted them correctly.
6249 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
6250 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
6251 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
6254 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
6255 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
6256 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
6257 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
6258 a second one and it works.
6259 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
6260 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
6261 alice would just have to wait to time out.
6262 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
6263 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
6264 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
6265 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
6266 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
6267 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
6268 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
6269 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
6270 i'd still like to find the bug though.
6271 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
6273 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
6277 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
6278 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
6279 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
6280 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
6281 he retries a couple of times
6282 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
6283 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
6284 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
6285 too long (they were sticking around forever).
6286 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
6290 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
6291 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
6292 - make hup work again
6293 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
6294 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
6295 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
6296 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
6297 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
6298 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
6300 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
6301 o changes from 0.0.5:
6302 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
6303 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
6304 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
6305 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
6306 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
6308 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
6309 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
6310 in-memory directories too
6313 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
6314 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
6317 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
6319 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
6320 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
6321 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
6322 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
6325 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
6329 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
6330 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
6332 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
6333 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
6334 but that aren't warnings
6337 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
6338 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
6339 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
6340 the dns farm to do it.
6341 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
6342 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
6344 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
6345 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
6346 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
6349 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
6350 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
6351 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
6352 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
6353 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
6354 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
6355 expect it to have a nickname.
6356 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
6357 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
6360 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
6361 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
6365 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
6366 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
6367 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
6368 - include missing header fcntl.h
6369 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
6370 - deal with hardware word alignment
6371 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
6372 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
6373 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
6374 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
6375 by kill -USR1 currently.
6376 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
6377 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
6378 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
6381 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
6382 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
6383 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
6386 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
6388 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
6389 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
6390 - And fix a few endian issues.
6393 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
6395 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
6396 try that circuit again: try a new one.
6397 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
6398 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
6399 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
6400 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
6401 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
6402 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
6404 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
6405 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
6406 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
6408 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
6410 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
6411 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
6412 side isn't reading right then.
6413 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
6415 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
6416 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
6417 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
6420 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
6422 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
6423 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
6426 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
6430 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
6432 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
6433 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
6434 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
6435 connection is finished.
6436 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
6437 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
6438 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
6439 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
6440 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
6441 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
6442 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
6443 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
6444 rather than warn and continue.
6445 - Make --version work
6446 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
6449 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
6451 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
6453 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
6454 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
6456 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
6457 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
6458 so you can collect coredumps there.
6460 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
6461 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
6462 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
6463 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
6464 dns cache actually gets populated.
6465 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
6466 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
6467 end cell down it first.
6468 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
6469 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
6472 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
6474 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
6475 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
6477 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
6478 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
6479 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
6480 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
6481 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
6482 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
6484 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
6486 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
6487 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
6488 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
6489 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
6490 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
6491 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
6493 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
6494 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
6497 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
6499 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
6500 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
6501 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
6502 tor. It even has a man page.
6503 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
6504 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
6505 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
6506 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
6508 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
6510 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
6513 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
6515 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
6517 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
6518 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
6519 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
6520 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
6521 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
6522 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
6523 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
6524 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
6525 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
6526 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
6527 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
6529 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
6530 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
6533 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
6535 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
6536 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
6539 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
6541 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
6542 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
6543 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
6544 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
6545 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
6546 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
6547 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
6548 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
6549 logfile so you know it's working.
6550 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
6551 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
6554 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
6556 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
6557 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
6558 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
6561 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
6563 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
6564 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
6565 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
6568 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
6569 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
6570 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
6572 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
6573 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
6575 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
6576 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
6577 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
6579 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
6580 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
6584 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
6586 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
6587 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
6588 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
6591 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
6592 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
6593 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
6594 - Add port ranges to exit policies
6595 - Add a conservative default exit policy
6596 - Warn if you're running tor as root
6597 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
6598 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
6599 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
6600 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
6602 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
6605 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
6606 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6607 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
6608 really screw things up.
6609 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
6611 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
6612 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
6614 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
6615 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
6616 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
6617 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
6618 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
6619 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
6622 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
6625 - Change default loglevel to warn.
6626 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
6627 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
6629 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
6632 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
6633 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6634 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
6635 - to get ownership/permissions right
6636 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
6637 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
6638 pull down a directory again
6639 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
6640 causing server crashes
6641 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
6642 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
6643 - exit if bind() fails
6644 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
6645 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
6646 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
6647 - fix minor bias in PRNG
6648 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
6651 - Wrote the design document (woo)
6653 o Circuit building and exit policies:
6654 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
6656 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
6657 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
6658 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
6659 exists, rather than failing
6660 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
6661 which AP connections are standing by
6662 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
6663 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
6664 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
6666 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
6667 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
6670 - APPort is now called SocksPort
6671 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
6673 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
6674 hardcoded (for dirservers)
6675 - Reloads config on HUP
6676 - Usage info on -h or --help
6677 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
6680 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
6681 o General stability:
6682 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
6683 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
6684 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
6685 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
6686 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
6687 to take down the network when I approve a new router
6688 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
6691 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
6692 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
6694 o Autoconf improvements:
6695 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
6696 - Make install now works
6697 - create var/lib/tor on make install
6698 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
6699 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
6701 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
6702 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
6703 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
6704 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup