1 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-rc - 2010-11-1?
3 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
4 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
5 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
7 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
9 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
10 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
11 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
12 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
13 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
14 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
15 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
16 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
17 its OR is not listed yet. Also prevent Tor clients from using an OR
18 running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
19 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object
22 when logging them. Previously we would attribute them to a failure
23 while generating a TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on
24 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes bug 1994.
25 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
26 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
27 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
29 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
31 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
32 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
33 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
34 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
35 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
39 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
41 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
42 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
43 RELAY_EARLY cells for relay cells on rend circuits. This was
44 necessary as long as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through
45 0.2.1.18-alpha were active. Since this isn't the case anymore,
46 we unify our behaviour here. Resolves bug 2081.
49 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
50 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
51 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
52 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
53 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
54 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
55 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
56 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
57 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
60 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
61 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
62 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
63 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
64 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
66 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
67 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
68 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
69 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
70 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
71 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
72 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
73 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
74 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
75 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
76 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
77 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
78 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
79 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
81 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
82 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
84 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
85 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
86 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
87 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
88 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
89 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
90 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
91 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
92 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
93 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
94 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
95 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
96 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
97 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
98 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
99 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
100 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
101 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
103 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
104 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
105 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
106 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
107 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
108 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
109 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
110 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
111 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
112 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
113 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
114 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
115 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
117 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
118 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
119 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
120 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
123 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
124 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
125 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
126 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
127 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
128 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
129 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
130 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
131 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
132 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
133 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
134 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
135 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
136 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
137 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
138 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
139 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
140 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
141 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
144 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
145 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
146 based on the time during which we were active and not in
147 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
148 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
149 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
150 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
151 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
153 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
154 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
155 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
156 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
157 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
158 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
159 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
160 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
161 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
162 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
165 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
166 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
167 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
168 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
170 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
171 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
172 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
173 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
174 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
175 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
176 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
177 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
178 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
179 the longest-lived bug prize.
180 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
181 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
182 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
183 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
184 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
185 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
187 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
188 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
189 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
190 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
191 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
192 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
196 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
197 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
198 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
199 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
200 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
201 got suppressed since the last warning.
202 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
203 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
204 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
205 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
206 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
207 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
208 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
209 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
210 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
211 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
212 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
213 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
214 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
215 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
216 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
217 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
218 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
219 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
220 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
222 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
223 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
226 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
227 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
228 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
229 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
230 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
231 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
232 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
233 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
234 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
235 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
236 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
237 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
238 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
239 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
240 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
242 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
243 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
244 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
245 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
246 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
247 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
248 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
250 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
251 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
252 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
253 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
254 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
257 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
258 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
259 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
260 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
261 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
262 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
263 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
264 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
265 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
266 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
267 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
268 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
269 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
270 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
271 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
272 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
273 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
274 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
277 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
280 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
281 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
282 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
283 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
284 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
288 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
289 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
290 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
291 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
292 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
293 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
294 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
295 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
296 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
297 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
298 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
299 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
300 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
301 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
302 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
303 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
304 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
307 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
308 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
309 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
310 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
311 they first get the Guard flag.
312 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
316 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
317 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
318 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
319 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
320 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
321 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
322 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
323 Patch from mingw-san.
324 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
325 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
327 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
328 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
329 Implements enhancement 1790.
331 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
332 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
333 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
334 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
335 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
336 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
337 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
338 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
339 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
340 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
341 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
342 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
343 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
344 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
345 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
346 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
347 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
348 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
349 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
350 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
352 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
353 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
354 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
355 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
356 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
357 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
358 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
359 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
360 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
361 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
362 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
363 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
364 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
366 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
367 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
368 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
369 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
370 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
371 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
373 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
374 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
375 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
376 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
377 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
378 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
379 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
380 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
381 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
382 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
383 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
384 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
386 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
387 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
388 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
389 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
390 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
391 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
392 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
394 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
396 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
397 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
398 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
399 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
400 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
401 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
403 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
404 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
405 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
406 structures and defines in or.h for now.
407 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
408 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
409 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
410 statistics code to be more easily tested.
411 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
412 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
413 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
416 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
417 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
418 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
419 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
420 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
421 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
425 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
426 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
427 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
428 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
429 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
430 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
431 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
432 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
433 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
434 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
435 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
436 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
437 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
439 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
440 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
441 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
442 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
443 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
444 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
445 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
446 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
447 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
448 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
449 can be controlled by the consensus.
452 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
453 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
454 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
455 more accurate data for many African countries.
456 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
457 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
458 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
459 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
460 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
461 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
462 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
463 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
464 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
465 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
466 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
467 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
469 o New directory authorities:
470 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
474 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
475 occurs whenever Tor receives only an IP address instead of a
476 hostname. Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine, and we
477 shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
478 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
479 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
480 what should go in a patch.
481 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
482 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
483 over our stored history.
484 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
485 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
486 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
487 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
488 file. Fixes bug 1296.
489 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
490 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
491 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
495 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
497 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
498 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
499 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
500 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
501 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
502 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
503 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
504 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
505 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
506 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
507 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
508 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
509 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
510 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
511 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
512 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
513 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
514 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
515 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
516 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
517 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
518 two-hop circuits are actually created.
519 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
520 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
521 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
522 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
525 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
526 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
527 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
528 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
529 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
531 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
532 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
535 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
536 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
537 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
538 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
539 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
540 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
541 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
542 their directory fetches over TLS).
543 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
544 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
545 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
546 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
547 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
548 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
549 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
550 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
553 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
554 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
558 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
559 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
560 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
561 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
562 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
563 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
564 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
567 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
568 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
569 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
570 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
571 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
574 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
575 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
576 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
577 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
578 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
579 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
580 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
581 their directory fetches over TLS).
584 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
585 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
587 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
588 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
589 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
590 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
591 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
592 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
593 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
594 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
595 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
596 hour of their uptime.
599 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
600 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
601 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
605 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
606 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
607 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
608 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
609 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
610 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
612 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
613 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
614 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
616 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
617 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
621 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
622 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
623 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
627 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
628 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
629 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
632 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
633 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
634 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
635 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
636 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
637 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
638 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
639 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
640 about the option without breaking older ones.
641 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
642 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
643 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
644 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
647 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
648 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
649 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
650 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
652 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
653 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
654 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
657 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
658 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
660 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
661 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
662 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
663 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
664 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
665 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
666 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
667 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
668 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
669 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
670 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
673 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
674 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
675 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
676 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
677 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
678 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
679 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
682 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
683 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
684 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
685 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
686 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
687 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
690 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
691 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
692 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
693 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
695 o Major features (performance):
696 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
697 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
698 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
699 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
700 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
701 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
702 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
704 o Minor features (performance):
705 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
706 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
707 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
708 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
709 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
713 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
714 speeds up the build considerably.
716 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
717 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
718 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
719 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
720 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
721 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
722 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
723 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
725 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
726 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
727 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
729 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
730 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
731 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
732 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
734 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
735 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
736 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
737 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
738 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
739 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
742 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
743 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
744 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
746 o Directory authority changes:
747 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
748 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
749 service directory authority) from the list.
752 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
753 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
754 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
755 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
756 libraries in a security patch.
757 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
758 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
759 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
760 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
762 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
763 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
764 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
765 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
766 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
767 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
768 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
771 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
772 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
773 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
774 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
775 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
776 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
777 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
778 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
779 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
780 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
781 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
782 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
783 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
785 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
786 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
787 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
788 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
789 control-spec.txt said they were.
790 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
791 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
792 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
793 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
794 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
796 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
797 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
798 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
800 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
801 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
803 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
804 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
805 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
806 projects directory in svn.
807 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
808 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
809 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
813 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
814 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
815 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
817 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
818 to the circuit build timeout.
819 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
820 arguments we do not recognize.
821 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
822 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
823 open() without checking it.
826 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
827 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
828 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
829 several minor potential security bugs.
832 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
833 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
834 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
835 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
836 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
837 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
838 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
841 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
842 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
844 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
845 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
846 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
847 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
851 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
852 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
856 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
857 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
858 customized patches to run/build.
861 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
862 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
863 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
866 o Major bugfixes (performance):
867 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
868 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
869 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
870 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
871 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
872 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
873 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
876 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
877 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
878 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
879 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
880 libraries in a security patch.
881 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
882 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
883 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
884 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
887 o Directory authority changes:
888 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
889 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
890 service directory authority) from the list.
893 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
894 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
897 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
898 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
899 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
900 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
901 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
904 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
905 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
906 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
910 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
911 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
912 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
913 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
914 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
917 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
918 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
919 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
923 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
924 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
925 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
926 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
927 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
929 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
930 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
932 o Directory authority changes:
933 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
936 o Major features (performance):
937 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
938 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
939 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
940 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
941 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
942 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
943 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
944 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
945 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
946 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
947 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
948 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
949 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
951 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
952 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
953 but never per-conn write limits.
954 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
955 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
956 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
957 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
959 o Major features (relay selection options):
960 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
961 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
962 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
963 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
964 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
965 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
966 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
968 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
969 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
971 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
972 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
973 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
974 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
975 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
976 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
977 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
978 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
982 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
983 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
984 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
987 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
988 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
989 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
990 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
991 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
992 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
993 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
994 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
995 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
996 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
997 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
998 generated while acting as a relay.
999 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
1000 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
1001 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
1002 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
1003 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
1004 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
1006 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
1007 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
1008 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1009 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
1010 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
1011 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
1014 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
1015 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
1016 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
1018 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
1019 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
1020 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
1022 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
1023 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
1025 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
1026 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
1027 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
1029 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
1030 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
1033 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1034 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
1035 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1036 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
1037 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
1038 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
1039 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
1040 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
1041 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
1043 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
1047 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
1048 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
1049 hidden service usage.
1052 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
1053 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
1054 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
1055 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
1056 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
1058 o Directory authority changes:
1059 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
1063 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
1064 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
1065 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1068 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
1069 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
1070 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
1071 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
1072 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
1075 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
1076 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
1077 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
1078 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
1079 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
1080 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
1081 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
1084 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
1085 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
1086 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1087 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
1088 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
1089 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
1091 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
1092 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
1095 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
1096 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
1097 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
1098 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
1099 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
1100 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
1103 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
1104 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
1105 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
1107 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
1108 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
1109 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
1110 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
1111 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
1112 download consensus + microdescriptors".
1113 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
1114 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
1115 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
1116 hash algorithm in the future.
1117 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
1118 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
1119 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
1120 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
1121 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
1122 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
1123 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
1124 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
1125 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
1128 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
1129 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
1130 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
1131 won't work unless we say we are.
1134 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
1135 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
1136 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
1137 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
1138 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
1139 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
1140 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
1141 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
1142 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1143 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
1144 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
1145 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
1146 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
1147 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
1148 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
1149 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
1150 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
1151 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
1152 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
1153 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
1154 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
1155 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
1158 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
1159 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
1160 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
1161 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
1163 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
1164 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
1166 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
1167 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
1168 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
1169 in the Vidalia Settings window.
1172 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
1173 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
1174 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
1175 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
1176 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
1178 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
1179 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
1181 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
1182 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
1183 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
1186 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
1187 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
1188 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
1190 o New directory authorities:
1191 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
1193 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
1196 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
1197 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
1199 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
1200 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
1201 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1202 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
1203 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
1204 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
1205 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1206 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
1207 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
1208 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
1209 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
1210 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
1211 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
1212 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
1213 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
1214 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
1215 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
1217 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
1218 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
1219 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
1221 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
1222 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
1226 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
1227 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
1228 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
1229 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
1230 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
1233 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
1234 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1237 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1239 o New directory authorities:
1240 - Move dizum to an alternate IP address.
1243 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
1244 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
1245 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
1246 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
1247 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
1250 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
1251 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
1252 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
1253 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
1255 o New directory authorities:
1256 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
1259 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
1260 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
1261 SSL handshake issues.
1262 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
1263 during the TLS handshake.
1264 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
1265 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
1266 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
1267 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
1268 none of which are very big.
1271 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
1273 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
1274 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1275 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
1276 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
1277 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1278 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
1279 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
1280 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
1283 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1284 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
1285 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
1286 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
1287 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
1290 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
1291 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1294 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
1295 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
1298 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
1299 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
1300 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1303 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
1304 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
1305 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
1306 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
1307 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
1308 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
1311 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
1312 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
1313 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
1314 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
1315 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
1316 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
1317 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
1318 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
1319 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
1320 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
1321 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
1322 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
1323 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
1324 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
1325 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
1326 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
1327 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
1328 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
1331 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
1332 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
1336 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
1337 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
1338 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1339 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
1340 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
1341 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
1342 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1343 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
1344 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
1345 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
1346 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1347 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
1348 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
1349 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
1350 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
1351 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
1352 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
1353 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
1354 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
1355 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
1356 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
1358 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
1359 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
1360 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
1361 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1362 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
1363 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
1365 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
1366 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
1367 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
1370 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
1371 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
1372 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
1373 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
1374 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
1375 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
1378 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
1379 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
1380 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
1381 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
1382 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
1385 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
1386 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
1387 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
1390 o New directory authorities:
1391 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
1395 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
1396 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
1397 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
1398 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
1399 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
1402 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
1403 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
1404 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
1405 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
1406 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
1409 o New options for gathering stats safely:
1410 - Directories that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics on
1411 directory request to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
1412 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
1413 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
1414 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
1415 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
1416 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
1417 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
1418 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
1420 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
1421 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
1422 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
1423 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
1425 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
1426 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
1427 their extra-info documents.
1430 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
1431 source files Tor was built with.
1432 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
1433 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
1434 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
1435 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
1436 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
1437 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
1439 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
1440 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
1441 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
1442 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
1443 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
1445 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
1446 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
1449 - If any the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should actually
1450 notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix on
1451 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
1452 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
1453 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
1455 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
1456 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
1458 o Deprecated and removed features:
1459 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
1460 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
1461 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
1462 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
1463 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
1464 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
1465 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
1466 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
1468 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
1469 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
1470 via application-level web tricks.
1472 o Packaging changes:
1473 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
1474 installer bundles. See
1475 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
1476 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
1477 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
1478 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
1479 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
1480 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
1481 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
1482 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
1483 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
1484 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
1485 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
1486 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
1489 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
1490 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
1491 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
1494 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
1495 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
1496 part of patch provided by "optimist".
1499 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
1500 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
1501 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
1502 and confuse fewer users.
1505 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
1506 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
1507 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
1508 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
1509 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
1510 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
1511 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
1514 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
1515 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
1516 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
1517 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
1518 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
1519 other features and bug fixes.
1522 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
1525 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
1526 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
1527 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
1528 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
1529 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
1532 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
1533 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
1534 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
1535 failure message (oops).
1538 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
1539 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
1540 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
1541 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
1545 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
1546 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
1547 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
1548 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
1549 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
1550 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
1551 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1552 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
1553 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
1554 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
1555 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
1556 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
1557 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
1558 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
1559 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
1562 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
1563 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1564 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
1565 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
1566 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
1567 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
1568 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
1569 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
1570 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
1571 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
1572 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
1573 Workaround for bug 1024.
1574 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
1578 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
1579 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
1580 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
1583 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
1585 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
1586 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
1587 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
1588 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
1589 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
1592 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
1593 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
1594 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
1595 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
1596 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
1597 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
1598 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
1599 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
1600 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
1601 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
1604 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
1605 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
1606 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
1607 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
1608 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
1609 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
1610 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
1611 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
1614 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
1615 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
1616 a bunch of minor bugs.
1619 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
1620 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
1621 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
1623 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
1624 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
1625 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
1626 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
1628 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
1632 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
1633 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
1634 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
1636 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1637 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
1639 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
1640 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
1642 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
1643 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
1644 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
1645 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
1646 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
1647 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
1648 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
1649 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
1651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1652 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
1653 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
1655 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
1656 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
1657 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
1658 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
1659 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
1663 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
1664 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
1665 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
1668 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1669 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
1670 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
1671 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
1673 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1674 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
1675 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
1676 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1677 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
1678 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
1679 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
1680 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
1681 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
1682 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
1683 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
1684 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1685 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
1686 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
1687 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
1688 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
1689 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
1691 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
1692 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
1693 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
1694 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1696 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1697 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
1698 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
1701 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
1702 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
1703 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
1704 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
1705 addresses to fall out of the directory.
1708 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
1709 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
1710 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
1711 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
1713 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
1714 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
1715 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
1716 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
1717 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
1718 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
1719 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
1720 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
1721 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
1722 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
1723 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
1724 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
1725 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
1727 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
1728 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
1731 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
1732 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
1733 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
1734 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
1735 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
1736 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
1738 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
1739 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
1740 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
1741 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
1742 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
1744 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
1747 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
1748 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
1750 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
1751 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
1752 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1753 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1754 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
1755 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
1757 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
1758 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1759 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
1760 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
1761 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
1762 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1763 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
1764 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
1765 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
1766 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
1767 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
1768 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
1772 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
1773 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
1774 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
1777 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
1778 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
1779 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1781 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
1782 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
1783 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
1784 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
1785 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
1786 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
1787 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
1788 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
1789 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
1790 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
1791 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
1792 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1793 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
1794 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
1795 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1796 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
1797 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
1798 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
1799 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
1800 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
1801 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
1802 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
1803 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
1804 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
1805 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
1806 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
1808 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
1809 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
1810 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
1811 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
1812 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
1813 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
1814 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
1815 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
1816 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
1817 of 0. Suggested by lark.
1819 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1820 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
1821 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
1822 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
1823 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1826 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
1828 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
1829 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
1830 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
1831 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
1834 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
1835 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
1836 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
1837 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
1838 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
1840 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
1841 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
1842 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
1843 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1846 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
1847 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1848 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
1849 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
1850 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
1851 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
1852 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
1853 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
1856 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
1857 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
1858 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
1859 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
1862 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
1863 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
1864 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
1865 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
1866 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
1867 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
1870 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
1871 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1872 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
1873 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
1874 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
1875 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1878 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
1879 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
1880 reported by Matt Edman.
1881 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
1883 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
1884 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
1885 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
1886 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
1888 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
1889 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1890 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
1891 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1892 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
1893 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
1894 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
1895 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
1896 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
1897 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
1898 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
1899 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
1900 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
1901 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1902 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
1903 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1904 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
1905 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
1906 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1909 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
1910 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
1911 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
1912 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
1915 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
1916 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
1917 the letter of C99's alias rules.
1920 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
1921 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
1922 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
1923 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
1925 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
1926 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
1927 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
1930 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
1931 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
1934 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
1935 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
1936 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
1937 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
1938 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
1940 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
1941 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
1942 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
1943 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
1944 identify a connection.
1945 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
1946 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
1947 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
1948 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
1949 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
1950 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
1951 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1952 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
1953 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
1954 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
1956 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
1957 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
1958 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
1959 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
1960 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
1961 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
1962 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
1965 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
1966 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
1968 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
1969 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
1970 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
1971 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
1972 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
1973 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
1974 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1975 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
1977 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
1978 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
1979 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
1980 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
1981 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
1982 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
1983 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
1984 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
1985 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
1986 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
1987 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
1988 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
1989 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
1990 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
1991 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1992 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
1993 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
1994 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1995 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
1996 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
1997 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
1998 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
1999 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
2000 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
2001 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
2002 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
2003 840. Patch from rovv.
2004 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
2005 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
2006 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
2008 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
2009 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
2010 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
2011 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
2012 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
2013 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
2014 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2017 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
2018 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
2021 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
2022 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
2024 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
2025 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
2026 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
2027 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
2028 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
2029 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
2030 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
2031 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
2032 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
2034 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
2036 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
2037 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
2041 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
2042 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
2043 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
2044 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
2045 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
2046 have had some time to upgrade.)
2049 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
2050 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
2053 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
2054 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
2055 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
2056 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
2057 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
2060 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
2061 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
2063 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
2064 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2065 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
2066 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
2067 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
2068 entirely. Patch from coderman.
2071 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
2072 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2073 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
2074 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
2075 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
2076 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2077 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
2081 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
2082 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
2083 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
2084 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
2085 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
2086 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
2087 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
2090 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
2091 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
2092 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
2093 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
2094 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
2096 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
2097 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
2098 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
2099 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
2100 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
2101 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
2102 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2103 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
2104 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
2105 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
2109 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
2110 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
2111 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
2113 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
2114 without support for deprecated functions.
2115 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
2117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2118 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
2119 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
2120 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
2121 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2122 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
2123 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
2124 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
2125 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
2126 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
2127 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
2128 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
2129 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
2130 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
2131 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
2132 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
2133 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
2134 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
2135 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
2136 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
2137 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
2138 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
2139 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
2141 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
2142 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
2143 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
2144 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
2145 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
2146 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
2148 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
2149 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
2150 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
2151 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
2152 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
2154 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
2155 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
2156 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
2158 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
2159 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
2162 o Deprecated and removed features:
2163 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
2164 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
2165 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
2168 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2169 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
2170 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
2171 with log.h on Android.
2172 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
2173 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
2176 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
2177 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
2179 o New directory authorities:
2180 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
2184 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
2185 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
2186 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
2187 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
2188 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
2189 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2192 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
2193 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
2194 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
2195 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
2196 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
2197 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
2198 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
2199 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
2201 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
2202 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
2203 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
2204 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
2207 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
2208 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
2210 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
2211 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
2212 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
2213 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
2214 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
2215 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
2216 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
2217 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
2218 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
2219 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
2220 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
2221 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
2222 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
2223 Implements proposal 148.
2224 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
2225 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
2226 system to do it for us.
2227 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
2228 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
2229 this fix will be slightly helpful.
2230 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
2231 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
2232 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
2233 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
2234 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
2235 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
2236 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
2237 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
2238 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
2241 o Minor features (controller):
2242 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
2243 been fetched and validated.
2244 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
2245 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
2246 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
2247 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
2248 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
2249 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
2252 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
2253 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2254 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
2255 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
2256 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
2258 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
2259 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
2260 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
2261 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
2262 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
2263 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
2264 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
2265 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
2266 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
2268 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2269 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
2270 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
2271 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
2272 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
2273 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
2274 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
2275 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
2277 o Deprecated and removed features:
2278 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
2280 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
2281 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
2282 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
2284 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2285 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
2286 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
2288 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
2289 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
2290 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
2291 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
2292 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
2293 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
2296 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
2297 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
2298 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
2299 fixes a variety of other issues.
2302 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
2303 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
2304 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
2305 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
2308 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
2309 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
2310 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
2311 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2314 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
2315 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2316 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
2320 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
2322 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
2323 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
2324 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
2325 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
2326 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
2327 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
2328 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
2330 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
2331 rest, and don't automatically fail.
2332 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
2333 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2334 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
2335 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
2337 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
2338 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
2339 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
2340 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
2341 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
2342 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
2343 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
2344 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
2345 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
2346 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
2348 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
2352 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
2353 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
2354 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
2356 o Minor features (controller):
2357 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
2361 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
2362 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
2363 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
2364 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
2365 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
2366 variety of other issues.
2369 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
2370 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
2371 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
2372 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
2373 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
2374 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
2375 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
2376 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
2377 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
2378 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
2379 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
2380 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
2383 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
2384 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2386 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2387 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
2388 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
2389 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
2390 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
2391 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
2392 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2393 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
2394 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
2395 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
2396 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
2397 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
2398 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
2399 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
2400 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
2404 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
2405 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
2406 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
2407 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
2408 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
2409 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
2410 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
2411 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
2412 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
2413 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
2414 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
2415 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
2416 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
2417 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
2418 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
2419 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
2420 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
2421 list. It has been gone for many months.
2422 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
2423 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
2424 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
2427 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2428 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
2429 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
2432 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
2433 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
2434 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
2435 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
2436 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
2437 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
2438 variety of other issues.
2441 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
2442 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
2443 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
2444 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
2445 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
2446 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
2447 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
2448 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
2449 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
2450 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
2451 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
2452 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
2453 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
2454 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
2457 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
2458 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
2459 Suggested by Lucky Green.
2460 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
2461 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
2462 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
2463 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
2464 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
2465 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
2467 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
2468 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
2470 o Hidden service performance improvements:
2471 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
2472 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
2473 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
2474 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
2475 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
2476 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
2477 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
2478 faster after restart.
2481 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
2482 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
2483 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
2484 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
2485 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
2486 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
2487 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
2488 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
2489 840. Patch from rovv.
2490 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
2491 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
2492 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
2493 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
2494 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
2495 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
2496 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
2497 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
2498 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
2500 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
2501 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
2502 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
2503 have already been marked for close.
2504 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
2505 introduction points.
2506 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
2507 memory performance during directory parsing.
2508 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
2509 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
2510 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
2511 because of a pending download.
2514 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
2515 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
2516 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
2517 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2520 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
2521 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
2522 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
2523 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
2524 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
2525 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
2526 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
2527 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
2528 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
2529 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
2530 lookups more reliable.
2531 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
2532 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
2533 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
2534 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
2535 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
2536 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
2537 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2540 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
2541 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
2542 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2543 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
2544 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
2545 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
2546 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
2547 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
2548 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
2549 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
2550 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
2552 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
2553 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
2554 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
2555 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
2556 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
2557 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2558 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
2559 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
2560 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2563 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
2564 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
2565 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
2566 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
2567 locked down these days.
2568 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
2569 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
2570 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
2571 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
2572 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
2574 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
2575 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
2576 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
2577 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
2578 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
2579 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
2580 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
2581 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
2582 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
2583 people find host:port too confusing.
2584 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
2585 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2586 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
2589 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2591 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
2592 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
2593 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
2594 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
2595 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
2597 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
2598 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
2599 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
2600 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
2601 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
2602 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
2603 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
2604 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
2605 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
2606 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
2607 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
2608 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
2610 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
2611 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
2612 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
2613 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
2614 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
2615 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
2616 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2617 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
2618 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
2620 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
2621 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
2622 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
2623 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
2624 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
2625 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2626 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
2627 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
2628 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
2629 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
2630 bug 820, reported by seeess.
2631 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
2632 list. It has been gone for many months.
2634 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2635 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
2636 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
2637 actual mistakes we're making here.
2638 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
2639 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
2640 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
2641 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
2644 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
2645 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
2646 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
2647 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2650 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
2651 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
2652 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
2653 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
2654 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
2655 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
2657 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
2658 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
2659 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
2660 pointed out by rovv.
2663 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
2664 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2665 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
2666 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2667 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
2668 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
2669 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
2670 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
2671 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
2672 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2673 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
2674 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
2675 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
2676 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2677 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
2678 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
2679 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
2680 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
2681 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
2682 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
2683 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
2686 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
2687 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
2688 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
2689 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
2690 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
2691 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
2692 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2695 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
2697 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
2698 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
2699 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
2700 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
2701 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
2702 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
2703 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
2705 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
2706 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
2707 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
2708 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
2709 known descriptor before building circuits.
2711 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
2712 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
2713 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
2714 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
2715 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
2716 identify a connection.
2717 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
2718 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
2719 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
2721 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
2722 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
2723 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
2724 pointed out by rovv.
2727 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
2728 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2729 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
2730 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
2731 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
2732 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2733 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
2734 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2735 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
2736 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
2737 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
2738 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
2739 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
2740 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
2741 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2744 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
2745 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
2746 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
2747 answer sections match.
2748 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
2749 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
2752 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
2753 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2756 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
2757 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
2758 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
2760 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
2761 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
2762 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2765 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
2766 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
2767 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
2768 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
2772 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
2773 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
2776 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
2777 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
2778 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
2779 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
2780 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
2781 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
2783 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
2784 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
2785 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
2788 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
2789 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
2790 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
2791 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
2792 be sent using an "early" cell.
2795 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
2796 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
2797 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
2798 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
2799 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
2800 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
2801 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
2804 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
2805 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
2806 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
2807 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
2808 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
2809 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
2810 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
2811 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
2812 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
2813 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
2814 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
2815 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
2816 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
2817 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
2818 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
2819 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
2822 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
2823 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
2824 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
2825 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
2826 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
2827 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
2828 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
2829 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
2830 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
2832 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
2833 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
2834 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
2835 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
2836 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
2839 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2840 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
2841 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
2842 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
2845 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
2846 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
2850 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
2852 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
2853 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
2854 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
2857 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
2858 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
2859 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
2862 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
2863 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
2864 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
2865 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
2866 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2867 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
2868 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
2869 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
2870 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2871 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
2872 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
2873 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
2874 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2875 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
2876 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
2877 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
2878 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
2879 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
2880 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
2881 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
2882 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
2883 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
2884 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
2887 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
2888 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
2890 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
2891 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
2892 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
2893 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
2894 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
2895 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
2896 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
2898 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
2899 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
2900 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
2901 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
2902 found by Geoff Goodell.
2905 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
2906 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
2907 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
2908 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
2909 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
2910 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
2913 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
2914 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
2915 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
2918 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
2919 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
2920 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
2921 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
2922 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2923 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
2924 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
2925 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
2926 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2927 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
2928 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
2929 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
2930 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
2931 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
2934 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
2935 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
2936 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
2938 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
2939 fingerprints with or without space.
2940 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
2941 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
2942 partway through and wants to catch up.
2943 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
2944 state to start out in.
2947 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
2948 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
2949 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2950 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
2951 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
2954 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
2955 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
2956 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
2957 some of the connection attempts fail.
2958 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
2959 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
2960 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
2961 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
2962 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
2963 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
2965 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
2966 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
2967 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
2970 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
2971 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
2972 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
2973 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
2974 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
2975 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
2976 and adds a variety of smaller features.
2979 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
2980 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
2981 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
2982 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
2984 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
2985 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
2986 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
2987 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
2989 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
2990 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
2991 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
2992 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
2993 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
2994 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
2995 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
2998 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
2999 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
3000 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
3001 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
3002 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
3004 o Memory fixes and improvements:
3005 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
3006 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
3007 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
3008 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
3009 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
3010 on a typical directory cache.
3011 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
3012 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
3013 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
3014 and may reduce fragmentation.
3015 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
3016 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
3017 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
3019 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
3020 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
3021 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
3023 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
3024 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
3028 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
3029 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
3030 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
3031 done that for a long time.
3032 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
3033 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
3034 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
3035 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
3038 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
3039 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
3040 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
3041 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
3042 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
3043 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
3045 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
3046 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
3047 output to messages of warning and error severity.
3048 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
3049 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
3050 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
3051 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
3052 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
3053 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
3054 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
3055 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
3056 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
3057 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
3058 directory requests we should expect to see.
3059 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
3061 - Lots of new unit tests.
3062 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
3063 two parallel lists in lockstep.
3066 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
3067 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
3068 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
3071 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
3072 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
3073 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
3074 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
3075 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
3076 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
3077 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
3080 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
3081 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
3082 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
3086 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
3087 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
3088 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
3091 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
3092 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
3093 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
3095 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
3096 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
3098 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
3099 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
3100 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
3101 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
3102 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3103 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
3104 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
3106 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
3107 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
3108 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
3109 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
3110 - Fix compile on Windows.
3113 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
3114 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
3115 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
3116 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
3117 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
3118 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
3119 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
3122 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
3123 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
3126 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
3127 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
3128 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
3129 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
3131 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
3132 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
3133 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
3136 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
3137 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
3138 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
3139 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
3143 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
3144 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
3145 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
3146 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
3148 o Major security fixes:
3149 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
3150 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
3151 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
3152 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
3153 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
3156 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
3157 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3160 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
3161 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
3164 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
3165 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
3168 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
3169 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
3170 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
3173 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
3174 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3177 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
3178 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
3179 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
3180 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
3181 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
3183 o New directory authorities:
3184 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
3185 it has been down for months.
3186 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
3190 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
3191 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
3193 o Minor features (security):
3194 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
3195 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
3196 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
3199 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
3200 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
3201 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
3202 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
3203 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
3204 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
3205 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
3206 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
3207 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3209 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
3210 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
3211 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3212 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
3213 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
3214 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
3215 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3216 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
3217 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
3219 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3220 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
3221 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
3222 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
3223 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
3224 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
3225 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
3226 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
3227 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
3228 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
3229 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3230 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
3231 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
3232 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
3233 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
3234 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
3235 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
3236 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
3237 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
3240 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
3241 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
3242 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
3243 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
3246 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
3247 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
3248 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
3249 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
3252 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
3253 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
3254 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
3255 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
3256 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
3259 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
3260 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
3261 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
3262 certain censored countries by default again.
3265 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
3266 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3267 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
3268 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
3269 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3270 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
3271 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
3272 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
3274 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
3275 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
3276 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
3277 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
3278 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
3279 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
3280 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
3281 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
3282 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
3283 a directory. Fix from lodger.
3285 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
3286 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
3287 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
3288 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
3289 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
3290 RelayBandwidth* values.
3291 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
3292 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
3293 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
3294 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
3295 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
3296 get_interface_address6().
3297 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
3298 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
3299 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
3301 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
3302 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
3303 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
3304 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3305 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
3306 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
3307 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3308 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
3309 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
3310 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3313 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
3314 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
3315 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
3318 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
3319 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
3320 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
3321 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
3322 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
3325 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
3326 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
3327 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
3328 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
3329 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
3330 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
3331 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
3332 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
3333 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
3336 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
3337 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
3338 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
3339 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3342 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
3343 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
3344 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
3345 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
3346 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
3347 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
3348 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
3351 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
3352 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
3353 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
3354 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
3355 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
3356 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
3357 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
3359 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
3360 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
3361 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
3362 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
3363 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
3366 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
3367 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
3369 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
3370 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
3371 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
3372 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3373 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
3374 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
3375 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
3376 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
3377 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
3378 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
3379 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
3380 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
3381 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3382 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
3383 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3384 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3385 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
3386 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
3387 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
3388 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
3389 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
3390 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
3391 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
3393 o Minor features (performance):
3394 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
3396 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
3397 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
3398 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
3399 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
3400 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
3401 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
3402 non-system include paths.
3403 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
3404 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
3407 o Minor features (other):
3408 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
3410 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
3411 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
3412 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
3415 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
3416 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
3417 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
3418 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
3420 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
3421 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
3422 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
3423 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
3425 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
3426 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
3427 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3428 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
3429 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3431 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3432 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
3433 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
3434 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
3435 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
3436 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
3437 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
3438 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
3439 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
3440 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
3441 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
3442 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
3443 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
3444 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
3445 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
3446 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3447 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
3448 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
3449 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
3450 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
3451 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
3452 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
3453 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
3454 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
3455 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
3458 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3459 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
3460 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
3464 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
3465 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
3466 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
3467 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
3468 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
3471 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
3472 Tor's x509 certificates.
3475 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
3476 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
3477 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3478 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
3479 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
3480 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3482 o Minor features (security):
3483 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
3484 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
3486 o Minor features (directory authority):
3487 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
3488 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
3489 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
3490 bandwidthburst values.
3492 o Minor features (controller):
3493 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
3494 processes from running us out of memory.
3496 o Minor features (misc):
3497 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
3498 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
3499 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
3500 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
3502 o Deprecated features (controller):
3503 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
3504 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
3505 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
3508 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
3509 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
3511 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
3512 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
3513 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3514 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
3515 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
3516 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3517 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
3518 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
3520 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
3521 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3522 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
3523 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3524 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
3525 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
3526 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
3527 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
3529 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
3530 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
3531 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
3532 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
3533 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3534 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
3535 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3536 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
3537 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3538 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
3539 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
3540 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3543 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
3545 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
3546 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
3547 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
3548 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
3549 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
3550 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
3553 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
3554 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
3555 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
3556 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
3557 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
3559 o New directory authorities:
3560 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
3564 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
3565 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
3566 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
3567 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
3568 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
3569 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
3570 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
3571 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
3575 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
3576 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
3577 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
3578 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
3579 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
3580 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
3581 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
3582 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
3583 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
3584 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
3587 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
3588 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
3589 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
3590 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
3594 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
3595 the request isn't encrypted.
3596 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
3597 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
3598 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
3599 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
3600 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
3603 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
3604 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
3607 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
3610 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
3611 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
3612 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
3614 o New directory authorities:
3615 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
3618 o Major performance improvements:
3619 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
3620 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
3621 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
3622 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
3623 memory fragmentation.
3626 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
3627 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
3628 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
3629 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
3630 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
3631 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
3632 bodies when they receive them.
3633 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
3634 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
3635 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
3637 o Minor performance improvements:
3638 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
3639 of them were actually distinct.
3640 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
3641 interested in a given message.
3644 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
3645 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
3646 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
3647 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
3648 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
3649 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
3650 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
3651 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
3652 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
3653 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
3654 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
3656 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
3657 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
3658 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
3659 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
3660 this country" and "1 person from this country".
3661 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
3662 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
3663 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
3664 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
3665 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
3667 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
3668 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
3669 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
3671 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
3672 but client versions are not.
3673 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
3674 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
3676 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
3677 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
3678 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
3679 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
3680 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
3682 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
3683 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
3684 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
3687 o Minor features (controller):
3688 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
3689 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
3690 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
3691 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
3693 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3694 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
3695 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
3696 running a test network on a single host.
3697 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
3698 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
3700 o Minor features (bridges):
3701 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
3702 unencrypted connections.
3704 o Minor features (other):
3705 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
3706 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
3707 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
3708 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
3711 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
3712 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
3713 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
3714 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
3717 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
3718 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
3719 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
3720 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
3724 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
3725 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
3726 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
3727 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
3728 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
3729 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
3730 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
3731 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
3732 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
3733 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
3734 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
3735 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
3738 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
3739 rebuild our server descriptor.
3740 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
3741 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
3742 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
3743 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
3744 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
3745 nonstandard integer types.
3746 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
3747 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
3748 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
3749 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
3750 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
3752 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
3753 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
3754 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
3755 when they receive them.
3756 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
3757 This includes some 64-bit systems.
3758 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
3759 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
3760 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
3761 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
3762 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
3763 router_get_by_hexdigest().
3764 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
3765 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
3769 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
3770 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
3771 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3774 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
3775 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
3776 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
3777 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
3778 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
3779 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
3780 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
3781 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3784 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
3785 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
3786 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
3787 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
3789 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
3790 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
3793 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
3794 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
3797 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
3799 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
3800 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
3802 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
3803 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
3804 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
3805 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3806 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
3807 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
3808 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
3809 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3810 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
3811 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
3815 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
3816 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
3817 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
3820 - Make the unit tests build again.
3821 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
3822 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
3823 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
3824 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
3825 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
3826 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3827 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
3828 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
3829 the next one as a duplicate.
3832 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
3833 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
3834 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
3835 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
3838 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
3839 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
3840 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
3843 o New directory authorities:
3844 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
3848 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
3849 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
3850 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
3851 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
3852 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
3853 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
3854 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
3856 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
3857 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
3859 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
3860 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
3861 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
3862 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
3863 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
3864 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
3866 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
3867 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
3868 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3869 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
3870 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
3871 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3874 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
3875 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
3876 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
3877 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
3878 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
3879 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
3880 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
3881 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
3882 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
3883 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
3884 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
3885 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
3886 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
3887 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
3888 where Tor is blocked.
3889 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
3890 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
3891 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
3892 to a file periodically.
3893 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
3894 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
3895 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
3899 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
3900 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
3901 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
3902 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
3903 in the relevant networkstatus document.
3904 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
3905 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
3906 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3907 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
3908 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
3909 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
3910 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
3912 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
3913 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
3914 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
3915 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
3916 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
3917 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3918 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
3919 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
3920 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
3921 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3922 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
3923 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
3924 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
3925 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3926 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
3927 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
3928 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
3929 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
3930 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
3931 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3932 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3933 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
3934 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3935 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
3936 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
3937 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3938 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
3939 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3942 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
3943 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
3944 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
3945 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
3946 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
3947 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
3948 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
3949 even if your DirPort isn't on.
3950 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
3951 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
3952 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
3954 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
3955 multiple controller passwords.
3956 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
3957 router based on the router's purpose.
3958 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
3959 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
3960 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
3961 the approved-routers file.
3964 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
3965 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
3966 well as a few minor bugs.
3969 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
3970 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
3971 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
3973 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
3974 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
3975 rebuild our server descriptor.
3977 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
3978 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
3979 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
3980 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
3981 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
3982 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
3983 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
3984 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
3985 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
3986 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
3988 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
3989 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
3990 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
3991 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
3992 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
3993 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
3994 then be flexible about families.
3997 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
3998 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
3999 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
4003 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
4004 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
4005 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
4006 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
4007 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
4010 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
4011 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
4012 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
4013 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
4014 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4017 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
4018 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
4020 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
4021 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
4022 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
4023 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
4024 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
4025 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
4026 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4028 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
4029 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
4030 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
4031 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
4034 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
4035 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
4038 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
4039 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
4040 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4043 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
4044 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
4045 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
4046 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
4047 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
4048 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
4049 addresses many more minor issues.
4051 o New directory authorities:
4052 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
4055 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
4056 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
4057 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
4058 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
4060 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
4061 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
4062 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
4063 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
4064 and are reaching it.
4065 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
4066 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
4067 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
4068 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
4069 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
4070 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
4073 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
4074 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
4076 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
4077 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
4078 no longer work for clients.
4079 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
4080 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
4082 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
4083 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
4084 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
4085 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
4086 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
4087 enough directory information to build a circuit.
4088 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
4089 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
4090 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
4091 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
4092 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
4093 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
4095 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
4096 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
4097 requests for all of them.
4098 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
4100 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
4101 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
4102 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
4105 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
4106 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
4110 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
4111 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
4112 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
4113 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
4114 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
4115 networkstatuses that we already have.
4116 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
4117 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
4118 we start knowing some directory caches.
4119 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
4120 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
4121 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
4122 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
4123 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
4124 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
4125 Good in combination with --hash-password.
4126 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
4127 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
4129 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
4130 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
4131 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
4133 o Minor features (bridges):
4134 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
4135 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
4136 back to trying the bridge directly.
4137 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
4138 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
4140 o Minor features (controller):
4141 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
4142 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
4143 report the value as a "minimum skew."
4146 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
4147 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
4151 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
4152 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
4153 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
4154 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
4155 reported by tup and ioerror.
4156 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
4157 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4160 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
4162 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
4163 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
4164 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
4166 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
4167 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4168 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
4169 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4170 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
4171 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4172 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
4174 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
4175 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
4176 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4178 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
4179 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
4180 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
4181 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
4182 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
4185 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
4186 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
4187 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
4188 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
4189 lists for a few hours each day.
4191 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4192 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
4193 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
4194 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
4195 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
4196 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4197 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
4198 rend_process_relay_cell().
4200 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4201 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
4202 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
4203 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
4204 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
4205 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
4206 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
4207 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
4209 o Major bugfixes (other):
4210 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
4211 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
4212 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
4213 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
4214 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
4215 circuit cannibalization).
4216 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
4217 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
4218 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
4219 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
4220 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
4221 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
4224 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
4225 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
4227 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
4228 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
4229 absent. Resolves bug 467.
4230 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
4231 a way to trigger this remotely.)
4232 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
4233 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
4234 were reporting the dir port.)
4235 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
4236 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
4237 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
4238 the future. Fixes bug 434.
4239 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
4241 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
4242 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
4243 the onion key from getting rotated.
4244 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
4245 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
4246 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
4247 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
4248 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
4249 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
4250 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
4251 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
4252 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
4255 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
4256 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
4257 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
4258 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
4259 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
4260 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
4262 o Major features (directory system):
4263 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
4264 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
4265 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
4266 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
4267 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
4268 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
4269 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
4270 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
4271 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
4272 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
4273 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
4274 Partially implements proposal 122.
4275 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
4276 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
4279 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
4280 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
4281 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
4282 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
4284 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
4285 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
4286 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
4287 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
4288 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
4289 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4290 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
4291 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
4292 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4294 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
4295 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
4297 - Allow certificates to include an address.
4298 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
4299 and download operations.
4300 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
4301 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
4302 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
4303 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
4304 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
4305 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
4307 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
4308 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
4311 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
4312 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
4313 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
4314 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
4316 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
4317 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
4318 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
4320 o Minor features (performance):
4321 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
4322 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
4323 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
4324 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
4325 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
4326 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
4327 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
4330 o Minor features (compilation):
4331 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
4332 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
4334 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
4335 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
4336 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
4337 stick around indefinitely.
4338 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
4340 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
4341 v3 directory authority.
4342 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
4343 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
4345 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
4346 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
4347 "moria on moria:9031."
4348 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
4349 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
4350 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
4351 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
4352 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
4353 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
4354 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
4355 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
4357 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
4358 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
4359 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
4360 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
4361 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
4362 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
4363 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
4364 downloads than for other types.
4366 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
4367 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
4369 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
4370 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
4371 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4373 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4374 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
4375 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4376 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
4377 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
4378 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
4379 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
4380 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
4382 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4383 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
4384 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
4385 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
4386 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4387 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
4388 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
4389 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4390 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
4391 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
4392 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
4394 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
4395 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
4398 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4399 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
4400 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
4401 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
4402 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
4403 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
4404 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
4405 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
4406 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
4407 so that they all take the same named flags.
4410 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
4411 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
4412 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
4415 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
4416 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
4417 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
4418 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
4419 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
4420 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
4422 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
4423 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
4424 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
4425 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
4426 annotations along with descriptors.
4427 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
4428 source, and its purpose.
4429 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
4431 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
4432 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
4433 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
4434 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
4437 o Major features (directory authorities):
4438 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
4440 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
4441 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
4442 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
4443 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
4444 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
4445 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
4447 o Major features (v3 directory system):
4448 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
4449 and download the descriptors listed in them.
4450 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
4451 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
4452 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
4454 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4455 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
4456 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
4457 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
4460 o Major bugfixes (performance):
4461 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
4462 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
4463 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
4464 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
4466 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
4467 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
4468 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
4469 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
4470 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
4471 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4473 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
4474 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
4476 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
4477 certificate is requested.
4478 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
4479 certificate requests.
4481 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
4482 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
4483 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
4484 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
4487 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4488 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
4489 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
4490 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4492 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
4493 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
4495 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
4496 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
4497 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4498 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
4499 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
4500 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
4501 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
4502 downloads more sensible.
4503 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
4504 another when serving certificates.
4506 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4507 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
4508 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
4509 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
4511 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
4512 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4513 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
4515 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
4516 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4518 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4519 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
4520 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
4521 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
4522 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4524 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4525 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
4526 WARN-severity events.
4527 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
4528 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
4529 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
4531 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
4532 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
4533 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
4535 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
4536 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
4537 circuit cannibalization).
4539 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4540 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
4541 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
4542 new module, networkstatus.c.
4543 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
4544 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
4545 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
4546 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
4547 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
4548 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
4549 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
4550 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
4551 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
4553 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
4555 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
4556 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4559 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
4560 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
4561 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
4562 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
4564 o New directory authorities:
4565 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
4566 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
4568 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4569 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
4570 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4572 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4573 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
4574 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
4575 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
4576 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4577 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
4578 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
4579 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
4580 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
4581 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
4582 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4584 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4585 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
4586 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
4587 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
4588 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
4589 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
4590 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
4591 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
4592 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
4594 o Minor features (security):
4595 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
4596 address maps to an internal address space.
4597 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
4598 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
4600 o Minor features (guard nodes):
4601 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
4602 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
4603 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
4604 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
4606 o Minor features (speed):
4607 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
4608 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
4609 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
4610 on big-endian hosts.)
4612 o Minor features (controller):
4613 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
4614 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
4615 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
4616 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
4620 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
4621 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
4622 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
4623 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
4624 implementation of proposal 104.
4625 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
4626 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
4627 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
4628 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
4629 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
4630 patch from Karsten Loesing.
4631 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
4632 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
4635 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
4636 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
4637 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4638 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
4639 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4640 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
4641 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4642 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
4643 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
4644 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4645 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
4646 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
4647 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
4648 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4649 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
4650 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
4651 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
4652 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4653 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
4654 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
4656 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4657 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
4658 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
4660 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
4661 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
4662 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
4663 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
4666 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
4667 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
4668 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
4669 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
4670 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
4673 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
4674 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
4677 o Major bugfixes (security):
4678 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
4679 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
4680 become more of a headache than it's worth.
4682 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
4683 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
4684 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
4686 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
4687 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
4688 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
4689 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
4690 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
4691 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
4693 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
4694 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
4695 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
4696 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
4697 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
4699 o Minor features (controller):
4700 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
4701 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
4702 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
4703 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
4705 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4706 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
4707 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
4708 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
4709 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
4710 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
4711 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
4712 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
4714 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4715 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
4716 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
4717 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
4718 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
4719 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
4720 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
4721 if we ran off the end of the list.
4722 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
4723 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
4724 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
4725 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
4726 every time we change any piece of our config.
4727 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
4728 encourage people using them to stop.
4729 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
4731 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
4732 servers to choose a circuit.
4733 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
4734 unparseable piece of it.
4737 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
4738 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
4739 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
4740 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
4743 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
4744 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
4745 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
4746 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
4747 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
4749 o New directory authorities:
4750 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
4753 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
4754 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
4755 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
4756 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
4758 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
4759 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
4760 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
4762 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
4763 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
4764 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
4765 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
4766 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
4767 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
4769 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
4770 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
4771 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4774 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
4775 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
4776 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
4777 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
4781 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
4782 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
4783 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
4784 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
4786 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
4787 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
4789 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
4790 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
4791 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
4792 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
4793 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
4794 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
4795 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4796 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
4797 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4798 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
4801 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
4802 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
4803 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
4804 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
4805 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
4806 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
4809 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
4810 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
4811 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
4812 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
4815 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
4816 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
4817 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
4818 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
4819 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
4822 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
4823 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
4824 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
4825 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
4826 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
4829 o Minor features (directory servers):
4830 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
4831 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
4833 o Minor features (directory voting):
4834 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
4837 o Minor features (security):
4838 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
4839 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
4840 encourage people using them to stop.
4842 o Minor features (controller):
4843 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
4844 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
4845 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
4846 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
4847 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
4848 cookie authentication file, and config option
4849 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
4851 o Minor features (unit testing):
4852 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
4853 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
4854 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
4855 logging for the unit tests.
4857 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
4858 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
4859 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
4860 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
4861 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
4862 every time we change any piece of our config.
4863 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
4864 the future. Fixes bug 434.
4865 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
4867 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
4868 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
4869 the onion key from getting rotated.
4870 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
4871 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
4872 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
4875 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
4876 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
4877 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
4879 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
4880 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
4881 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
4882 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
4885 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
4886 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
4887 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
4888 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
4889 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
4890 TorK, etc. Or worse.
4892 o Major security fixes:
4893 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
4894 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
4897 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
4898 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
4899 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
4900 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
4902 o Major security fixes:
4903 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
4904 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
4906 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
4907 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
4910 o Minor features (performance):
4911 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
4912 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
4913 performance-intensive.
4914 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
4915 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
4916 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
4917 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
4918 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
4919 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
4923 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
4924 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
4925 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
4926 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
4930 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
4931 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
4932 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
4933 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
4934 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
4936 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
4937 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
4938 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
4939 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
4941 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
4942 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
4943 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
4944 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
4945 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
4947 o Major features (experimental):
4948 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
4949 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
4950 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
4951 handling before it's ready for use.
4954 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
4955 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
4956 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
4957 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
4958 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
4959 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
4961 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
4962 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
4963 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
4964 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
4965 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
4967 o Major bugfixes (directory):
4968 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
4969 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
4971 o Minor features (controller):
4972 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
4973 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
4974 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
4976 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
4978 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
4979 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
4981 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
4982 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
4983 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
4984 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
4985 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
4986 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
4987 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
4990 o Minor features (misc):
4991 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
4993 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
4994 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
4995 the authority identity key.
4996 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
4998 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
4999 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
5000 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
5003 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
5004 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
5005 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
5006 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
5007 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
5008 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
5009 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
5010 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
5012 o Performance improvements:
5013 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
5015 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
5016 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
5019 o Deprecated and removed features:
5020 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
5021 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
5022 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
5023 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
5025 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5026 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
5027 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
5028 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
5029 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
5030 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
5031 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
5032 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
5033 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
5036 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
5037 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
5038 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
5039 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
5040 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
5042 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
5043 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
5046 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5047 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
5048 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
5049 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
5050 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
5051 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
5052 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
5053 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
5054 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
5057 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
5058 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
5059 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
5060 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
5062 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5063 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
5065 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5066 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
5067 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
5068 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
5069 routerlist while inserting a new router.
5070 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
5071 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
5073 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
5074 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
5075 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
5077 o Major bugfixes (security):
5078 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
5080 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
5081 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
5082 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
5083 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
5084 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
5085 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
5086 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
5087 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
5088 guard list unless we need to.
5090 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
5091 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
5092 don't get overused as guards.
5094 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5095 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
5096 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
5097 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
5098 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
5100 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5101 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
5102 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
5105 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5106 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
5107 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
5108 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
5109 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
5110 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
5111 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
5112 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
5115 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
5116 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
5117 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
5118 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
5120 o Minor features (directory):
5121 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
5122 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
5123 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
5124 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
5126 o Minor build issues:
5127 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
5128 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
5129 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
5130 in the tarball, not as "x".
5133 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
5134 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
5135 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
5136 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
5137 forward on a lot of fronts.
5139 o Major features, server usability:
5140 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
5141 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
5142 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
5143 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
5145 o Major features, client usability:
5146 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
5147 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
5148 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
5149 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
5150 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
5151 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
5152 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
5153 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
5155 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
5156 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
5157 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
5158 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
5159 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
5160 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
5162 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
5163 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
5164 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
5166 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
5167 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
5168 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
5169 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
5170 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
5172 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
5173 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
5174 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
5175 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
5177 o Major features, other:
5178 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
5179 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
5180 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
5181 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
5182 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
5185 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
5186 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
5187 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
5190 o Minor fixes (resource management):
5191 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
5192 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
5193 our allocated connection limit.
5194 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
5195 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
5196 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
5197 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
5198 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
5200 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
5201 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
5202 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
5204 o Minor features (build):
5205 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
5206 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
5207 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
5208 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
5210 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
5211 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
5212 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
5213 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
5214 Use this version consistently in log messages.
5216 o Minor features (logging):
5217 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
5218 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
5219 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
5220 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
5221 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
5224 o Minor features (directory system):
5225 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
5226 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
5227 not to serve V2 directory information.
5228 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
5229 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
5230 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
5232 o Minor features (controller):
5233 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
5234 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
5236 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
5237 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
5238 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
5239 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
5240 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
5241 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
5243 o Minor features (hidden services):
5244 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
5245 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
5246 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
5247 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
5249 o Minor features (other):
5251 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
5252 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
5253 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
5254 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
5255 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
5256 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
5257 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
5258 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
5259 longer a completely silly thing to do.
5260 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
5261 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
5262 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
5263 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
5266 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
5267 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
5268 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
5269 back an error and close the connection.
5270 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
5271 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
5274 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5275 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
5276 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
5277 makes the log messages nicer.
5278 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
5279 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
5280 partial results on small file reads.
5282 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5283 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
5284 more often than they are allowed to appear.
5285 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
5286 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
5288 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5289 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
5290 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
5291 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
5293 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5294 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
5295 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
5296 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
5297 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
5298 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
5299 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
5300 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
5301 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
5302 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
5303 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
5305 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
5306 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
5307 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
5309 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
5310 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
5311 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
5312 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
5314 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5315 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
5316 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
5318 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
5319 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
5322 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5323 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
5324 implicit in other procedure arguments.
5325 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
5326 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
5327 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
5328 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
5329 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
5330 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
5331 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
5332 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
5333 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
5336 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
5337 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
5338 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
5339 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
5341 o Directory authority changes:
5342 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
5343 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
5344 or use hidden services.
5346 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5347 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
5348 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
5349 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
5350 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
5351 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
5352 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
5353 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
5354 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
5357 o Major bugfixes (security):
5358 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
5359 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
5360 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
5362 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
5363 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
5364 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
5365 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
5366 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
5367 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
5368 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
5369 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
5370 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
5371 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
5374 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
5376 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
5377 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
5379 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
5380 having a hard time downloading.
5381 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
5382 partial results on small file reads.
5383 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
5384 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
5385 the gaps in the store get very large.
5388 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
5389 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
5391 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
5392 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
5395 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
5396 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
5397 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
5398 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
5399 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
5400 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
5402 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
5403 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
5404 free speech on the Internet.
5407 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
5408 get one we don't recognize.
5409 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
5410 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
5413 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
5415 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
5416 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
5417 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
5418 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
5421 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
5422 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
5425 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
5426 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
5427 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
5428 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
5429 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
5430 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
5434 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
5435 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
5436 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
5437 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
5438 on Win98 and friends again.
5440 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5441 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
5442 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
5445 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
5446 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
5447 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
5448 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
5449 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
5450 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
5451 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
5452 and maybe also bug 397.)
5454 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5455 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
5456 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
5458 o Minor bugfixes (server):
5459 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
5462 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5463 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
5464 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
5465 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
5466 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
5468 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5469 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
5470 load on authorities.
5472 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5473 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
5474 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
5475 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
5477 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
5479 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
5480 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
5481 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
5482 the last of bug 326.)
5483 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
5484 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
5488 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
5489 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5490 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
5491 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
5492 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
5493 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
5494 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
5496 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
5497 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
5499 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5500 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
5501 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
5503 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
5504 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
5505 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
5507 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5508 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
5509 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
5510 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
5512 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
5513 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
5515 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
5516 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
5517 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
5520 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5521 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
5522 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
5523 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
5524 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
5525 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
5526 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
5527 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
5528 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
5529 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
5530 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
5531 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
5532 other than file-not-found.
5533 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
5534 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
5535 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
5536 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
5537 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
5538 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
5539 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
5540 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
5541 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
5542 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
5543 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
5544 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
5545 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
5546 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
5547 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
5549 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
5551 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
5552 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
5554 o Minor features (controller):
5555 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
5556 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
5557 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
5559 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
5560 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
5561 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
5562 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
5563 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
5564 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
5565 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
5566 connected or resolved cell.
5568 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5569 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
5570 some profiles, but not others.)
5571 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
5572 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
5573 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
5576 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
5578 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
5579 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
5580 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
5581 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
5582 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
5583 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
5584 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
5585 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
5586 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
5587 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
5588 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
5589 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
5590 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
5591 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
5592 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
5594 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
5597 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
5598 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
5599 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
5600 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
5601 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
5602 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
5603 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
5605 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
5606 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
5607 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
5608 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
5609 buckets go absurdly negative.
5610 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
5611 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
5614 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
5615 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
5616 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
5617 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
5618 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
5619 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
5620 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
5621 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
5624 o Major bugfixes (other):
5625 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
5626 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
5627 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
5628 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
5630 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
5632 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
5633 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
5635 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
5636 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
5637 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
5638 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
5639 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
5642 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
5643 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
5644 possible memory-stomping bugs.
5645 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
5646 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
5648 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
5649 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
5650 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
5651 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
5652 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
5653 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
5655 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5656 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
5657 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
5658 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
5660 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
5661 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
5662 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
5663 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
5664 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
5665 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
5666 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
5667 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
5668 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
5669 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
5670 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
5671 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
5672 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
5674 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
5675 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
5676 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
5677 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
5678 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
5679 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
5680 to the resulting address.
5683 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
5684 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
5685 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
5686 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
5689 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
5690 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
5692 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
5693 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
5694 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
5695 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
5696 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
5697 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
5698 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
5699 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
5700 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
5701 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
5702 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
5703 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
5704 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
5705 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
5706 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
5707 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
5708 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
5711 o Minor features (controller):
5712 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
5713 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
5714 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
5715 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
5716 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
5717 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
5718 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
5722 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
5724 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
5725 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
5726 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
5727 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
5728 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
5729 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
5732 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
5733 weren't planning to resolve.
5734 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
5735 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
5736 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
5737 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
5738 the controller from learning about current events.
5740 o Minor features (more controller status events):
5741 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
5742 learn when our address changes.
5743 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
5744 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
5745 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
5746 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
5748 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
5749 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
5750 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
5751 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
5752 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
5753 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
5754 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
5755 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
5756 are accepted by a directory.
5757 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
5758 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
5759 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
5760 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
5761 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
5763 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
5764 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
5765 about changes to DNS server status.
5767 o Minor features (directory):
5768 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
5769 too much load to the exit nodes.
5772 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
5774 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
5775 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
5776 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
5777 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
5778 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
5780 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
5781 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
5782 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
5784 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
5785 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
5786 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
5787 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
5788 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
5789 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
5790 config options if you like.
5792 o Minor features (config and docs):
5793 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
5794 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
5795 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
5796 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
5797 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
5799 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
5800 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
5801 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
5802 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
5803 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
5805 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
5806 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
5807 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
5808 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
5809 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
5810 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
5811 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
5812 documentation: "make check-docs".
5813 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
5814 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
5816 o Minor features (DNS):
5817 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
5818 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
5819 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
5820 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
5821 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
5822 our tests for DNS hijacking.
5824 o Minor features (directory):
5825 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
5826 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
5827 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
5828 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
5829 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
5830 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
5831 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
5832 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
5833 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
5834 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
5835 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
5836 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
5837 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
5838 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
5839 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
5840 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
5841 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
5842 for the thing we're trying to download.
5843 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
5844 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
5845 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
5847 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
5848 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
5849 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
5852 o Minor features (controller):
5853 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
5854 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
5856 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
5857 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
5858 entry guard status as it changes.
5860 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
5861 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
5862 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
5863 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
5865 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
5866 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
5867 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
5868 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
5871 o Major bugfixes (security):
5872 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
5873 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
5874 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
5875 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
5877 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
5878 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
5879 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
5880 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
5881 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
5883 o Major bugfixes (other):
5884 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
5885 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
5886 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
5887 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
5889 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
5890 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
5891 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
5892 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
5893 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
5894 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
5898 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
5899 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
5900 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
5901 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
5902 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
5904 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
5905 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
5907 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
5908 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
5909 family lists conveniently.
5910 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
5911 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
5912 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
5914 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
5915 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
5917 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
5918 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
5919 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
5920 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
5921 if their identity keys are as expected.
5922 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
5923 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
5924 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
5926 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5927 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
5928 reported by Mike Perry.
5929 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
5930 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
5931 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
5932 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
5935 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
5936 o Security bugfixes:
5937 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
5938 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
5939 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
5940 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
5944 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
5945 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
5946 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
5949 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
5951 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
5952 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
5953 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
5956 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
5957 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
5958 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
5959 watching for STREAM events.
5960 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
5961 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
5962 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
5963 operations, for profiling.
5966 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
5967 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
5968 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
5969 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
5970 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
5971 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
5973 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
5977 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
5978 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
5979 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
5980 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
5981 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
5983 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
5984 correctly in the Windows installer.
5985 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
5986 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
5987 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
5989 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
5990 when we're running as a client.
5993 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
5995 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
5996 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
5997 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
5998 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
5999 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
6000 its circuits on demand.
6001 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
6002 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
6003 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
6004 connections more stable on average.
6005 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
6006 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
6007 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
6009 o Security bugfixes:
6010 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
6011 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
6014 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
6016 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
6017 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
6018 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
6019 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
6020 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
6021 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
6022 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
6023 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
6026 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
6028 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
6029 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
6030 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
6031 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
6032 routers for even longer.
6033 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
6034 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
6035 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
6036 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
6037 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
6038 caching HTTP proxies.
6039 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
6042 o Minor features, controller:
6043 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
6044 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
6045 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
6046 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
6048 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
6049 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
6050 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
6051 working much like those for circuit events.
6052 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
6053 about the current status of a router.
6054 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
6055 a router's status has changed.
6056 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
6057 can tell which events and features are supported.
6058 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
6059 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
6061 o Security bugfixes:
6062 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
6063 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
6066 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
6067 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
6068 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
6069 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
6070 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
6071 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
6072 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
6073 long nicknames where appropriate.
6074 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
6075 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
6076 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
6077 chews through many circuits before giving up.
6078 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
6079 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
6080 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
6081 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
6082 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
6083 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
6085 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
6086 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
6087 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
6089 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
6090 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
6091 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
6092 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
6093 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
6094 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
6095 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
6096 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
6097 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
6098 (reported by fookoowa).
6099 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
6100 and reported by some Centos users.
6101 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
6102 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
6103 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
6104 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
6105 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
6106 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
6107 before we check for libevent.
6110 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
6112 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
6113 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
6114 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
6115 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
6116 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
6117 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
6118 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
6119 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
6120 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
6121 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
6122 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
6123 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
6124 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
6125 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
6126 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
6127 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
6128 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
6129 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
6130 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
6131 lets you turn it off.
6132 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
6133 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
6134 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
6135 us into the directory more quickly.
6137 o New/improved config options:
6138 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
6139 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
6140 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
6141 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
6142 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
6143 all the machines on the same subnet.
6144 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
6145 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
6146 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
6147 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
6148 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
6149 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
6150 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
6151 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
6152 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
6153 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
6155 o Minor features, controller:
6156 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
6157 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
6158 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
6159 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
6160 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
6161 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
6162 for more information.
6163 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
6164 best guess to the user.
6165 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
6166 descriptor has changed.
6167 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
6169 o Minor features, other:
6170 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
6171 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
6172 useful to the network.
6173 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
6174 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
6175 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
6176 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
6177 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
6178 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
6179 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
6180 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
6181 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
6182 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
6183 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
6184 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
6185 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
6186 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
6187 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
6189 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
6190 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
6191 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
6192 could return an unnamed server instead.
6193 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
6194 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
6195 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
6196 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
6197 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
6198 a more attractive target for compromise.)
6199 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
6200 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
6201 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
6203 o Major bugfixes, other:
6204 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
6205 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
6206 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
6207 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
6208 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
6209 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
6210 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
6211 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
6212 its circuits on demand.
6213 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
6214 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
6215 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
6216 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
6218 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
6219 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
6220 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
6222 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
6224 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
6225 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
6226 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
6227 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
6228 "extendcircuit" request.
6229 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
6230 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
6231 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
6233 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
6234 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
6235 instead of "X resolved to X".
6236 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
6237 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
6238 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
6239 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
6240 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
6241 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
6242 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
6243 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
6244 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
6246 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
6247 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
6248 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
6249 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
6250 result more than once.
6251 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
6252 non-versioning dirservers.
6253 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
6254 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
6256 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
6257 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
6258 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
6259 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
6260 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
6261 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
6262 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
6263 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
6264 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
6266 o Packaging, features:
6267 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
6268 now universal binaries.
6269 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
6270 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
6271 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
6273 o Packaging, bugfixes:
6274 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
6275 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
6276 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
6277 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
6279 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
6280 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
6281 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
6284 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
6285 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
6286 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
6290 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
6292 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
6293 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
6294 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
6295 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
6296 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
6297 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
6298 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
6299 it can't resolve its hostname.
6302 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
6303 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
6304 "extendcircuit" request.
6305 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
6306 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
6307 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
6308 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
6310 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
6311 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
6312 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
6314 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
6315 methods: these are known to be buggy.
6316 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
6317 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
6321 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
6323 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
6324 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
6325 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
6326 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
6327 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
6328 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
6329 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
6330 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
6331 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
6332 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
6333 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
6334 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
6335 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
6336 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
6337 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
6338 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
6339 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
6340 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
6341 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
6342 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
6343 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
6344 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
6345 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
6346 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
6349 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
6350 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
6351 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
6352 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
6353 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
6354 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
6355 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
6356 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
6357 recommendation system saner.)
6358 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
6360 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
6361 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
6362 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
6363 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
6364 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
6365 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
6366 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
6367 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
6368 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
6369 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
6370 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
6371 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
6373 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
6374 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
6375 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
6376 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
6377 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
6378 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
6379 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
6380 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
6381 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
6382 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
6383 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
6384 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
6386 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
6387 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
6388 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
6389 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
6390 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
6391 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
6394 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
6395 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
6396 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
6397 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
6398 our DirPort now, etc.
6399 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
6400 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
6401 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
6402 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
6403 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
6404 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
6405 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
6407 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
6408 whether the config options are bad or good.
6409 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
6410 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
6411 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
6412 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
6413 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
6414 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
6415 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
6416 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
6419 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
6420 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
6421 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
6422 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
6423 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
6424 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
6425 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
6426 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
6427 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
6428 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
6429 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
6430 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
6431 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
6432 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
6433 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
6434 of it), is not therefore "up".
6435 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
6436 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
6437 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
6438 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
6439 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
6440 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
6443 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
6445 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
6446 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
6447 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
6448 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
6449 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
6450 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
6451 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
6452 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
6453 test reachability, so you won't publish.
6456 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
6457 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
6458 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
6459 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
6460 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
6462 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
6463 own server descriptor yet.
6466 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
6468 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
6469 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
6470 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
6471 make sure to test via one of these.
6472 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
6473 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
6474 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
6475 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
6476 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
6478 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
6479 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
6480 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
6483 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
6484 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
6485 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
6486 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
6487 directory authority.
6488 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
6489 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
6490 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
6491 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
6494 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
6495 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
6496 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
6498 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
6499 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
6500 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
6501 current guards when picking a new guard.
6502 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
6503 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
6504 when we had more than one pending.
6505 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
6506 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
6507 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
6508 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
6509 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
6510 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
6511 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
6512 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
6513 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
6514 debug the reachability problems better.
6516 o Log / documentation fixes:
6517 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
6518 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
6519 about protocol violations by others.
6520 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
6521 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
6522 about what happened to our old torrc.
6525 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
6527 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
6529 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
6530 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
6531 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
6532 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
6535 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
6537 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
6538 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
6539 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
6540 old ORPort and receive connections.
6541 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
6543 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
6544 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
6545 and network-statuses.
6546 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
6547 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
6548 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
6549 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
6551 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
6554 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
6555 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
6556 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
6559 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
6561 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
6562 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
6563 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
6564 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
6565 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
6568 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
6569 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
6571 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
6572 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
6573 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
6574 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
6575 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
6576 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
6577 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
6578 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
6579 rather than not sending anything back at all.
6580 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
6581 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
6582 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
6583 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
6584 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
6585 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
6586 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
6587 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
6588 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
6589 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
6590 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
6591 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
6592 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
6593 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
6594 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
6595 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
6596 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
6597 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
6598 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
6599 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
6600 default ulimit -n is 1024.
6603 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
6604 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
6605 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
6606 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
6609 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
6611 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
6612 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
6613 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
6614 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
6615 entry guards running these flawed versions.
6616 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
6617 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
6618 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
6619 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
6620 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
6623 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
6624 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
6626 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
6627 and it is confusing some users.
6628 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
6629 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
6630 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
6631 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
6632 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
6635 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
6637 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
6638 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
6639 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
6640 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
6641 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
6642 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
6643 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
6644 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
6645 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
6646 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
6647 dirport is set for now.
6649 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
6650 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
6651 unattached before we fail it?
6652 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
6653 at least this many seconds ago.
6654 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
6655 at least this many seconds ago.
6658 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
6659 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
6660 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
6661 or resolve-wait stream.
6662 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
6663 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
6664 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
6665 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
6666 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
6667 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
6668 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
6669 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
6671 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
6672 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
6673 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
6674 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
6675 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
6676 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
6677 given as hex digests.
6678 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
6679 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
6680 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
6681 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
6682 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
6683 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
6684 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
6685 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
6688 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6689 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
6690 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
6691 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
6692 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
6693 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
6694 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
6695 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
6696 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
6697 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
6698 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
6701 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
6702 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
6703 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
6704 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
6705 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
6706 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
6707 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
6710 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
6711 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
6712 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
6713 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
6714 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
6715 misreading their logs.
6716 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
6717 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
6718 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
6719 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
6720 valid router descriptors.
6721 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
6722 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
6723 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
6724 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
6725 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
6726 silently resetting it to its default.
6727 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
6729 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
6732 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
6734 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
6735 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
6736 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
6737 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
6738 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
6740 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
6741 because older Tors do not understand it.
6742 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
6746 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
6747 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6748 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
6749 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
6750 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
6751 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
6752 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
6753 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
6754 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
6755 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
6756 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
6758 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
6759 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
6760 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
6761 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
6763 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
6764 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
6767 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
6768 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
6769 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
6770 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
6771 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
6772 without getting overloaded.
6773 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
6775 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
6776 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
6777 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
6778 be forward-compatible.
6779 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
6780 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
6781 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
6782 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
6784 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
6785 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
6786 and OR conns to port 443.
6787 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
6788 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
6790 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
6791 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
6792 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
6793 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
6794 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
6795 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
6796 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
6799 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
6800 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6801 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
6802 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
6804 o Other important bugfixes:
6805 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
6806 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
6807 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
6808 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
6810 o Backported features:
6811 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
6812 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
6813 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
6814 without getting overloaded.
6815 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
6816 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
6817 503's whenever they feel busy.
6818 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
6819 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
6820 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
6821 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
6822 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
6825 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
6826 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
6827 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
6828 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
6829 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
6830 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
6831 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
6832 know if the crashes continue.
6833 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
6834 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
6835 seg faults in at least some cases.)
6836 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
6837 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
6838 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
6841 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
6842 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
6843 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
6844 try to be a bit more fair.
6845 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
6846 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
6847 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
6848 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
6849 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
6850 bug that let it go negative.
6851 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
6852 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
6853 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
6854 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
6855 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
6856 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
6857 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
6858 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
6859 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
6860 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
6861 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
6864 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
6866 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
6867 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
6868 service descriptors.
6871 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
6872 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
6873 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
6874 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
6876 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
6877 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
6878 versions *are* still recommended.
6879 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
6880 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
6881 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
6882 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
6883 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
6884 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
6885 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
6886 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
6888 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
6889 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
6890 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
6891 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
6892 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
6893 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
6894 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
6895 on it. Not used by clients yet.
6896 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
6897 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
6898 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
6899 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
6900 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
6901 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
6902 established a circuit.
6903 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
6904 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
6905 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
6906 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
6909 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
6910 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6911 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
6912 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
6913 quickly enough. Oops.
6914 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
6916 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6917 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
6920 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
6921 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
6922 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
6923 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
6924 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
6925 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
6926 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
6927 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
6928 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
6929 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
6930 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
6931 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
6932 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
6933 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
6934 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
6935 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
6936 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
6939 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
6940 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
6941 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
6942 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
6943 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
6944 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
6945 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
6946 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
6947 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
6948 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
6949 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
6950 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
6951 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
6952 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
6953 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
6954 connections more reliable.
6957 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
6958 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
6959 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
6960 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
6961 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
6962 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
6963 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
6964 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
6965 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
6966 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
6967 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
6968 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
6969 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
6970 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
6974 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
6975 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
6976 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
6977 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
6978 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
6979 need to be uint64_t's.
6980 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
6981 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
6982 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
6984 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
6986 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
6987 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
6988 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
6989 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
6990 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
6991 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
6992 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
6994 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
6995 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
6996 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
6997 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
6998 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
6999 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
7000 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
7001 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
7002 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
7003 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
7004 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
7005 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
7006 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
7009 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
7010 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
7011 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
7012 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
7013 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
7014 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
7015 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
7017 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
7018 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
7019 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
7020 can answer v2 directory requests too.
7021 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
7022 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
7023 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
7024 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
7026 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
7027 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
7028 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
7029 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
7030 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
7031 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
7032 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
7033 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
7034 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
7035 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
7036 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
7037 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
7038 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
7039 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
7040 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
7042 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
7043 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
7046 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
7047 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7048 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
7049 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
7050 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
7051 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
7052 too -- so detect and avoid this.
7053 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
7055 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
7056 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
7057 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
7058 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
7059 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
7060 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
7061 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
7062 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
7063 rendezvous circuits.
7064 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
7066 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7067 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
7068 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
7069 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
7070 advertising it because of hibernation.
7071 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
7072 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
7073 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
7074 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
7075 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
7076 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
7077 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
7078 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
7079 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
7080 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
7081 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
7082 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
7083 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
7084 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
7087 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
7088 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7089 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
7090 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
7091 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
7092 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
7093 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
7094 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
7095 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
7096 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
7097 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
7098 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
7099 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
7100 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
7101 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
7102 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
7103 connections once a week.
7104 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
7105 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
7106 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
7107 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
7108 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
7109 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
7111 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
7112 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
7113 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
7115 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7116 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
7117 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
7118 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
7119 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
7120 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
7121 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
7122 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
7123 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
7124 firewall options forbid.
7125 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
7126 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
7127 can only proxy to certain destinations.
7128 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
7129 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
7130 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
7131 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
7132 aids some statistical attacks.
7133 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
7134 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
7135 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
7136 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
7138 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
7139 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
7140 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
7141 server descriptor sometimes.
7142 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
7143 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
7144 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
7145 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
7146 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
7147 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
7148 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
7149 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
7151 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
7152 case the controller wants to change that too.
7153 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
7154 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
7155 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
7156 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
7158 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
7159 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
7160 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
7162 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
7163 descriptors that they know they will reject.
7165 o Features and updates:
7166 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
7167 significantly faster.
7168 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
7169 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
7170 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
7171 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
7172 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
7173 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
7174 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
7175 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
7176 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
7177 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
7178 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
7179 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
7180 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
7181 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
7182 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
7183 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
7184 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
7185 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
7186 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
7187 as authoritative dirserver.
7188 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
7189 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
7190 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
7193 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
7194 o Usability improvements:
7195 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
7196 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
7198 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
7199 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
7200 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
7202 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
7203 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
7204 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
7205 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
7206 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
7207 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
7208 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
7209 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
7210 memory leaks better.
7211 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
7212 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
7213 their operators to pay close attention.
7214 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
7215 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
7217 o Performance improvements:
7218 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
7219 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
7220 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
7221 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
7222 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
7223 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
7224 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
7225 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
7226 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
7227 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
7228 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
7229 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
7230 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
7231 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
7232 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
7233 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
7234 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
7236 o Security improvements:
7237 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
7238 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
7239 fingerprint of server.
7240 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
7241 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
7242 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
7244 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7245 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
7246 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
7247 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
7248 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
7249 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
7250 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
7251 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
7252 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
7253 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
7254 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
7255 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
7256 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
7257 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
7258 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
7259 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
7260 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
7261 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
7262 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
7263 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
7264 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
7266 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
7267 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
7268 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
7270 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
7271 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
7273 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
7274 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
7275 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
7276 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
7277 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
7278 of the controller protocol.
7279 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
7280 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
7281 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
7284 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
7285 o New features (major):
7286 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
7287 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
7288 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
7289 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
7290 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
7291 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
7292 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
7293 we're using a default DirPort.
7294 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
7296 o New features (minor):
7297 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
7298 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
7299 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
7300 mirrors still cache and serve it).
7301 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
7302 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
7303 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
7304 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
7305 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
7306 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
7307 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
7308 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
7309 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
7310 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
7311 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
7312 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
7313 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
7314 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
7315 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
7317 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
7318 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
7319 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
7320 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
7321 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
7322 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
7323 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
7324 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
7326 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
7327 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
7328 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
7329 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
7330 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
7331 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
7332 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
7333 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
7334 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
7335 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
7337 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
7338 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
7339 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
7340 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
7341 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
7344 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
7345 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
7347 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
7348 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
7350 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
7351 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
7352 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
7353 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
7354 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
7355 don't warn twice about the same name.
7356 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
7357 if we've not heard of the server.
7358 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
7359 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
7362 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
7363 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7364 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
7365 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
7366 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
7367 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
7368 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
7369 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
7370 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
7371 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
7372 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
7373 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
7374 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
7375 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
7376 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
7379 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
7380 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
7381 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
7382 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
7383 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
7385 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
7386 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
7387 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
7388 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
7389 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
7390 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
7394 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
7395 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
7396 nickname) is reachable by you.
7397 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
7401 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
7402 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
7403 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
7404 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
7405 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
7406 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
7407 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
7408 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
7409 we fail to connect).
7410 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
7411 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
7412 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
7413 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
7415 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
7416 it was self-testing that told us so.
7419 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
7420 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
7421 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
7422 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
7423 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
7424 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
7425 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
7426 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
7427 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
7428 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
7429 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
7430 exit policy using him for any exits.
7431 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
7434 o New controller features/fixes:
7435 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
7436 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
7437 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
7438 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
7439 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
7440 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
7441 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
7442 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
7443 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
7445 o Start on the new directory design:
7446 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
7447 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
7449 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
7450 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
7451 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
7452 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
7454 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
7455 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
7456 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
7457 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
7458 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
7459 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
7460 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
7461 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
7464 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
7465 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
7466 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
7467 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
7468 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
7469 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
7470 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
7471 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
7472 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
7473 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
7475 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
7476 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
7477 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
7478 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
7479 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
7480 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
7481 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
7482 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
7483 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
7485 o Config option changes:
7486 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
7487 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
7488 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
7489 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
7490 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
7491 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
7494 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
7495 people have started using them for spam too.
7496 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
7497 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
7498 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
7499 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
7500 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
7501 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
7502 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
7503 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
7504 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
7505 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
7506 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
7507 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
7508 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
7509 services faster on the service end.
7510 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
7511 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
7512 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
7513 it a fair shake next time we try.
7514 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
7515 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
7516 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
7517 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
7518 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
7519 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
7520 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
7521 able to discover them.
7522 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
7523 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
7524 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
7525 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
7526 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
7527 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
7528 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
7529 testing for reachability.
7530 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
7531 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
7533 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
7535 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
7536 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
7539 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
7540 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
7542 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7543 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
7544 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
7545 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
7548 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
7549 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7550 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
7552 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
7553 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
7556 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
7557 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
7560 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
7561 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
7562 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
7563 options, getinfo keys.
7566 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
7567 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7568 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
7569 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
7570 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
7571 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
7572 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
7574 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
7575 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
7579 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
7580 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
7581 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
7583 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
7585 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
7586 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
7587 circuit events and we go offline.
7588 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
7589 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
7590 you don't have enough intro points already.
7592 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
7593 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
7594 many bytes we've used in this time period.
7595 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
7596 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
7597 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
7598 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
7599 enabled by default yet.
7601 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
7602 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
7603 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
7604 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
7605 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
7608 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
7609 o New directory servers:
7610 - tor26 has changed IP address.
7612 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7613 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
7614 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
7616 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
7617 claims its dirport is 0.
7618 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
7619 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
7623 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
7624 o New directory servers:
7625 - tor26 has changed IP address.
7627 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
7628 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
7630 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
7631 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
7632 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
7633 ports that have changed.
7634 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
7636 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
7637 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
7638 Windows-style errno back.
7639 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
7641 want to make it an NT service.
7642 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
7643 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
7644 name, give the full name in our response.
7645 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
7646 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
7647 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
7648 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
7651 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
7652 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
7656 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
7657 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
7658 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
7659 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
7660 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
7663 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
7664 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7665 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
7666 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
7667 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
7668 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
7669 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
7670 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
7673 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
7675 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
7676 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
7677 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
7678 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
7679 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
7680 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
7682 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
7683 temporarily unreachable.
7684 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
7688 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
7689 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
7690 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
7692 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
7696 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
7697 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
7698 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
7699 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
7700 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
7704 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
7705 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
7706 libevent before 1.1a.
7709 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
7711 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
7712 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
7713 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
7714 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
7715 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
7717 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
7718 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
7719 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
7720 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
7721 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
7722 of CPU time plus memory.
7723 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
7724 normal web requests.
7725 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
7726 tor_lookup_hostname().
7727 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
7728 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
7729 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
7730 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
7731 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
7732 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
7734 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
7735 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
7736 HttpProxyAuthenticator
7737 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
7738 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
7739 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
7741 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
7742 the user asks you to.
7743 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
7744 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
7745 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
7746 their descriptors are being rejected.
7747 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
7751 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
7753 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
7754 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
7755 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
7757 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
7759 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
7761 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
7762 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
7763 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
7764 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
7765 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
7766 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
7767 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
7768 keys) from the exit server's process.
7769 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
7770 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
7771 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
7772 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
7773 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
7774 point at your Tor server.
7775 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
7776 you're not sending a socks reply back.
7779 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
7780 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
7781 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
7782 to make it easier to write controllers.
7785 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
7787 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
7788 installing on Tiger.
7789 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
7790 complain during installation.
7791 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
7792 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
7793 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
7794 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
7795 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
7796 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
7798 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
7799 something more reasonable when first installing.
7800 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
7803 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
7805 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
7806 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
7808 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
7809 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
7810 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
7811 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
7812 when using the default exit policy.
7813 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
7814 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
7815 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
7816 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
7817 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
7818 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
7819 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
7820 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
7821 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
7822 we fetched a new directory.
7823 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
7824 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
7827 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
7828 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
7829 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
7830 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
7831 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
7832 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
7833 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
7834 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
7836 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
7837 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
7838 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
7839 save memory on systems that need to fork.
7840 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
7841 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
7842 is valid without actually launching Tor.
7843 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
7844 rather than just rejecting it.
7847 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
7849 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
7850 we didn't like its cert.
7852 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
7853 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
7854 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
7855 on patch from Adam Langley.
7856 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
7857 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
7858 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
7859 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
7861 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
7862 directory every time you regenerate it.
7863 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
7864 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
7867 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
7868 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7869 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7870 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
7871 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
7874 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
7876 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7877 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
7878 TLS errors better in other situations too.
7879 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
7880 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
7881 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
7882 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
7883 and don't log when you are.
7884 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
7885 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
7887 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
7888 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
7889 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
7890 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
7891 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
7894 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
7895 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
7896 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
7897 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
7898 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
7899 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
7900 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
7901 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
7902 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
7903 nickname+key are allowed.
7904 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
7905 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
7906 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
7907 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
7908 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
7909 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
7910 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
7911 have quite wrong clocks).
7912 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
7913 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
7914 - Efficiency improvements:
7915 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
7916 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
7917 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
7918 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
7919 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
7920 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
7921 lowercase and be done with it.
7922 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
7923 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
7924 to abandon partially built circuits.
7925 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
7926 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
7928 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
7930 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
7931 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
7932 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
7933 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
7935 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
7936 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
7938 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
7939 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
7940 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
7941 obeying the exit policy internally.
7942 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
7943 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
7945 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
7946 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
7947 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
7948 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
7950 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
7951 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
7952 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
7953 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
7954 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
7956 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
7957 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
7958 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
7959 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
7960 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
7961 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
7962 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
7963 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
7964 descriptors we just dropped.
7965 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
7966 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
7967 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
7968 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
7969 artificially capped at 500kB.
7972 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
7973 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7974 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
7975 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
7976 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
7977 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
7978 busy for more than 100 seconds.
7981 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
7982 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
7983 - Fixes on reachability detection:
7984 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
7985 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
7986 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
7987 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
7988 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
7989 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
7990 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
7991 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
7992 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
7993 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
7994 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
7995 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
7996 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
7997 server not already connected to them.
7998 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
7999 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
8000 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
8002 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
8004 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
8005 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
8006 are in a different state than they actually are.
8007 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
8008 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
8009 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
8011 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
8012 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
8013 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
8015 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
8016 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
8017 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
8018 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
8019 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
8020 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
8021 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
8023 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
8024 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
8025 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
8026 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
8029 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
8030 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8031 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
8032 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
8033 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
8034 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
8035 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
8036 creating actual system users.
8037 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
8038 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
8042 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
8044 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
8045 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
8046 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
8047 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
8048 hidden services better.
8049 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
8051 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
8052 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
8053 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
8054 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
8055 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
8056 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
8057 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
8058 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
8059 patch by Matt Edman).
8060 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
8061 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
8062 required exit node for certain sites.
8063 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
8064 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
8065 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
8066 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
8067 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
8068 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
8069 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
8070 rather than just "success" or "failure".
8071 - A more sane version numbering system. See
8072 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
8073 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
8074 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
8076 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
8077 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
8078 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
8079 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
8080 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
8081 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
8082 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
8084 o Robustness/stability fixes:
8085 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
8086 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
8087 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
8089 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
8090 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
8091 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
8093 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
8094 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
8095 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
8097 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
8098 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
8099 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
8100 that will want high uptime circuits.
8101 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
8102 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
8103 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
8104 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
8105 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
8106 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
8107 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
8108 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
8109 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
8110 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
8111 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
8112 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
8113 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
8114 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
8115 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
8116 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
8117 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
8118 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
8119 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
8120 when we try to launch one.
8121 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
8122 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
8123 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
8124 "ShutdownWaitLength".
8125 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
8126 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
8127 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
8128 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
8129 and to take errno into account where possible.
8132 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
8133 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
8134 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
8135 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
8136 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
8137 file more reasonable.
8138 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
8139 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
8140 addresses -- it won't.
8141 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
8142 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
8143 for google.com" problem.
8144 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
8145 so it's not just "unknown platform".
8146 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
8147 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
8148 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
8149 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
8151 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
8152 they could use instead.
8153 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
8154 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
8155 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
8156 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
8157 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
8158 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
8159 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
8160 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
8161 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
8163 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
8167 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
8168 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
8170 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
8171 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
8172 private-IP addresses.
8173 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
8174 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
8176 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
8177 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
8178 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
8179 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
8180 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
8181 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
8182 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
8184 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
8185 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
8186 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
8187 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
8188 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
8189 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
8190 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
8191 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
8193 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
8195 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
8196 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
8197 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
8198 whether the server is hibernating.
8201 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
8202 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
8203 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
8204 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
8205 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
8206 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
8207 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
8208 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
8209 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
8210 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
8211 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
8212 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
8213 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
8214 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
8215 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
8217 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
8218 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
8219 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
8220 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
8221 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
8222 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
8223 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
8224 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
8225 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
8226 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
8227 existing torrc files.
8228 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
8231 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
8232 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8233 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
8234 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
8235 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
8236 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
8237 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
8238 the win32 SYSTEM account.
8239 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
8240 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
8241 file descriptors available.
8242 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
8243 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
8244 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
8247 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
8248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8249 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
8250 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
8252 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
8253 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
8254 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
8255 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
8256 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
8258 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
8259 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
8260 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
8261 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
8262 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
8263 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
8264 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
8265 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
8266 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
8267 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
8268 800kB/s of capacity.
8269 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
8272 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
8273 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8274 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
8275 need as much processor time.
8276 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
8277 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
8278 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
8279 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
8280 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
8281 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
8282 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
8283 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
8284 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
8285 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
8286 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
8287 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
8289 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
8290 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
8291 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
8292 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
8293 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
8294 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
8295 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
8298 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
8299 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
8300 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
8302 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
8303 style address, then we'd crash.
8304 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
8305 a dirserver is broken.
8306 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
8308 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
8309 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
8310 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
8312 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
8313 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
8314 name out of the warning/assert messages.
8315 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
8316 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
8317 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
8319 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
8320 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
8321 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
8323 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
8325 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
8326 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
8327 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
8328 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
8329 values at once couldn't work.
8330 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
8331 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
8332 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
8333 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
8334 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
8335 they can handle any number of routers.
8336 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
8337 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
8338 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
8339 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
8340 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
8341 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
8342 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
8343 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
8344 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
8347 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
8348 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8349 - Make hibernation actually work.
8350 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
8351 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
8352 don't use the stream status code.
8355 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
8357 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
8358 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
8360 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
8363 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
8364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
8365 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
8366 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
8367 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
8368 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
8369 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
8370 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
8371 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
8372 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
8374 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8375 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
8376 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
8377 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
8378 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
8379 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
8380 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
8381 - Make unit tests work on win32.
8384 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
8385 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
8386 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
8388 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
8389 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
8390 than just chopping them off.
8391 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
8393 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8394 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
8395 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
8396 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
8397 right after sending the begin cell.
8398 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
8399 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
8400 exit nodes too. Oops.
8403 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
8404 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
8405 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
8406 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
8407 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
8408 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
8409 the user knows which one it's talking about.
8410 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
8411 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
8412 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
8415 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
8416 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8417 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
8418 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
8420 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
8422 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
8423 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
8424 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
8426 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
8427 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
8428 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
8429 Clip rather than rejecting.
8430 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
8431 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
8434 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
8435 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
8436 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
8437 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
8439 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
8442 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
8443 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8444 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
8445 win32 socket errors better.
8447 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8448 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
8451 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
8452 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8453 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
8454 so we don't see those messages days later.
8456 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8457 - Make tor-resolve work again.
8458 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
8459 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
8462 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
8463 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8464 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
8465 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
8467 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
8468 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
8469 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
8472 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
8473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8474 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
8475 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
8476 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
8477 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
8478 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
8479 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
8480 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
8482 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
8483 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
8484 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
8485 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
8487 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
8488 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
8491 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
8492 hibernation properties by
8493 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
8494 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
8495 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
8496 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
8497 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
8498 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
8499 get back to normal.)
8500 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
8502 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
8503 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
8504 to fill the last cell completely.
8505 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
8508 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
8509 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8510 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
8511 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
8512 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
8513 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
8514 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
8515 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
8516 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
8517 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
8518 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
8520 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
8521 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
8522 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
8523 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
8524 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
8525 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
8526 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
8527 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
8529 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
8530 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
8531 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
8532 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
8533 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
8534 have it on start-up.
8537 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
8538 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
8539 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
8540 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
8541 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
8542 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
8543 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
8544 configuration to torrc.
8545 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
8546 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
8547 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
8548 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
8549 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
8551 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
8552 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
8553 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
8554 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
8555 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
8556 log more informatively.
8557 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
8558 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
8559 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
8560 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
8561 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
8562 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
8563 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
8564 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
8565 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
8566 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
8567 from each other, to hinder linkability.
8570 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
8571 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
8572 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
8573 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
8574 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
8575 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
8576 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
8578 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
8579 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
8580 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
8581 they ran out of file descriptors.
8582 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
8583 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
8584 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
8585 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
8586 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
8587 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
8588 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
8590 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
8593 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
8594 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
8595 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
8596 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
8597 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
8598 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
8599 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
8600 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
8601 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
8602 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
8603 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
8604 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
8605 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
8606 with the control port.
8607 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
8608 use in authenticating to the control interface.
8609 - New log format in config:
8610 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
8611 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
8614 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
8615 from their dirserver.
8616 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
8618 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
8619 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
8620 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
8621 them act more like real nodes.
8622 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
8623 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
8625 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
8626 nickname to its identity key.
8627 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
8628 not on the command line.
8629 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
8630 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
8631 1024) file descriptors.
8633 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
8634 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
8636 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
8637 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
8638 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
8641 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
8642 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
8643 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
8644 exit policy, not reject *:*.
8645 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
8646 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
8647 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
8648 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
8649 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
8650 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
8651 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
8654 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
8655 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
8656 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
8657 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
8658 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
8659 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
8660 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
8663 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
8664 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8665 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
8666 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
8667 the ones we find in directories.)
8668 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
8670 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
8671 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
8673 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
8674 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
8675 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
8677 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
8678 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
8679 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
8680 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
8682 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
8683 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
8684 any more exit policy lines.
8687 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
8688 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
8689 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
8690 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
8691 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
8692 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
8693 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
8694 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
8695 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
8696 will be able to get a directory.
8697 - Http proxy support
8698 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
8699 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
8700 be routed through this host.
8701 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
8702 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
8703 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
8704 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
8707 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
8709 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
8710 clients/servers with an open dirport.
8711 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
8712 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
8713 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
8714 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
8715 intermittent connections.
8716 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
8717 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
8719 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
8720 in reporting stats locally.
8721 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
8722 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
8723 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
8726 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
8728 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
8729 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
8732 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
8734 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
8735 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
8736 if you don't want it open.
8737 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
8738 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
8739 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
8740 intermittent connections.
8741 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
8743 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
8744 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
8745 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
8746 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
8747 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
8748 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
8749 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
8750 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
8751 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
8752 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
8753 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
8754 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
8755 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
8756 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
8757 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
8758 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
8761 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
8762 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
8763 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
8764 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
8765 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
8767 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
8769 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
8770 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
8771 specified in HTTP 1.0.
8772 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
8773 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
8774 than once per minute.
8775 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
8776 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
8779 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
8780 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
8783 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
8784 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
8785 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
8786 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
8789 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
8790 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
8792 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
8793 don't put it into the client dns cache.
8794 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
8795 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
8796 until we get our next directory.
8798 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
8799 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
8800 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
8801 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
8802 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
8803 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
8804 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
8805 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
8806 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
8807 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
8808 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
8810 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
8812 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
8813 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
8815 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
8816 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
8817 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
8819 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
8821 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
8822 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
8823 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
8824 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
8825 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
8826 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
8827 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
8828 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
8831 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
8832 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
8833 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
8834 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
8837 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
8838 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
8839 ask them to resolve the host "".
8842 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
8843 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
8844 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
8845 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
8846 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
8847 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
8848 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
8849 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
8850 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
8851 clients don't use this yet.)
8852 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
8853 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
8854 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
8855 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
8856 for pointing out this bug.)
8857 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
8858 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
8859 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
8860 kazaa, gnutella ports.
8861 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
8863 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
8864 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
8865 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
8866 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
8867 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
8868 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
8869 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
8870 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
8871 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
8873 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
8874 that's still handshaking.
8875 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
8876 you'll choose it for your path.
8877 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
8878 end relay cell, etc.
8879 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
8880 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
8881 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
8884 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
8885 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
8887 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
8888 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
8889 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
8890 list to decide who's running or verified.
8891 - Bugfixes and features:
8892 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
8893 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
8894 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
8895 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
8896 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
8897 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
8899 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
8900 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
8901 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
8902 know you might want to get it verified.
8903 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
8906 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
8908 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
8909 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
8910 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
8911 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
8914 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
8915 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
8916 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
8917 hadn't heard of before.
8920 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
8921 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
8922 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
8923 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
8924 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
8925 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
8926 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
8927 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
8928 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
8929 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
8930 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
8931 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
8932 - Directory caching.
8933 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
8934 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
8935 directory they've pulled down.
8936 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
8937 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
8938 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
8939 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
8940 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
8941 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
8942 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
8944 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
8945 This isn't used yet.
8946 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
8947 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
8948 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
8949 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
8950 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
8951 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
8952 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
8953 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
8954 - File and name management:
8955 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
8956 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
8958 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
8959 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
8960 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
8961 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
8962 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
8963 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
8964 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
8966 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
8967 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
8968 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
8969 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
8970 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
8972 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
8973 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
8974 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
8975 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
8976 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
8977 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
8978 - New docs in the tarball:
8980 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
8983 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
8984 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
8985 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
8988 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
8989 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
8990 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
8993 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
8994 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
8997 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
8998 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
8999 - Make it build on Win32 again.
9000 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
9001 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
9005 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
9007 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
9008 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
9009 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
9010 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
9011 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
9012 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
9013 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
9014 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
9015 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
9016 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
9019 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
9022 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
9023 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
9024 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
9025 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
9027 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
9028 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
9029 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
9031 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
9032 hidden service per 15-minute period.
9033 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
9034 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
9035 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
9036 o Fixes for security bugs:
9037 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
9038 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
9039 a trusted dirserver.
9041 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
9042 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
9043 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
9044 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
9045 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
9046 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
9047 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
9048 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
9049 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
9050 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
9052 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
9053 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
9054 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
9055 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
9057 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
9058 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
9059 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
9060 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
9061 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
9062 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
9063 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
9064 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
9065 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
9066 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
9067 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
9068 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
9069 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
9072 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
9073 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
9074 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
9075 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
9078 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
9079 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
9080 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
9081 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
9082 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
9083 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
9084 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
9088 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
9092 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
9093 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
9094 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
9095 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
9096 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
9098 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
9101 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
9102 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
9103 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
9104 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
9105 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
9106 o Better debugging for tls errors
9107 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
9108 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
9109 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
9110 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
9111 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
9112 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
9113 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
9114 o win32's close can't close a socket.
9117 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
9118 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
9119 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
9120 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
9121 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
9122 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
9123 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
9124 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
9125 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
9126 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
9127 just close the circ.
9128 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
9129 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
9130 (this was quite rare).
9133 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
9134 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
9135 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
9136 if you decrypted them correctly.
9137 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
9138 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
9139 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
9142 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
9143 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
9144 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
9145 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
9146 a second one and it works.
9147 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
9148 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
9149 alice would just have to wait to time out.
9150 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
9151 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
9152 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
9153 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
9154 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
9155 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
9156 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
9157 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
9158 i'd still like to find the bug though.
9159 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
9161 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
9165 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
9166 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
9167 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
9168 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
9169 he retries a couple of times
9170 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
9171 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
9172 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
9173 too long (they were sticking around forever).
9174 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
9178 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
9179 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
9180 - make hup work again
9181 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
9182 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
9183 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
9184 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
9185 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
9186 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
9188 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
9189 o changes from 0.0.5:
9190 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
9191 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
9192 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
9193 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
9194 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
9196 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
9197 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
9198 in-memory directories too
9201 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
9202 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
9205 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
9207 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
9208 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
9209 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
9210 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
9213 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
9217 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
9218 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
9220 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
9221 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
9222 but that aren't warnings
9225 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
9226 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
9227 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
9228 the dns farm to do it.
9229 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
9230 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
9232 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
9233 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
9234 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
9237 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
9238 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
9239 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
9240 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
9241 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
9242 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
9243 expect it to have a nickname.
9244 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
9245 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
9248 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
9249 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
9253 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
9254 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
9255 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
9256 - include missing header fcntl.h
9257 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
9258 - deal with hardware word alignment
9259 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
9260 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
9261 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
9262 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
9263 by kill -USR1 currently.
9264 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
9265 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
9266 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
9269 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
9270 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
9271 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
9274 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
9276 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
9277 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
9278 - And fix a few endian issues.
9281 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
9283 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
9284 try that circuit again: try a new one.
9285 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
9286 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
9287 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
9288 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
9289 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
9290 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
9292 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
9293 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
9294 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
9296 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
9298 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
9299 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
9300 side isn't reading right then.
9301 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
9303 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
9304 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
9305 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
9308 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
9310 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
9311 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
9314 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
9318 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
9320 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
9321 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
9322 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
9323 connection is finished.
9324 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
9325 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
9326 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
9327 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
9328 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
9329 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
9330 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
9331 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
9332 rather than warn and continue.
9333 - Make --version work
9334 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
9337 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
9339 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
9341 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
9342 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
9344 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
9345 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
9346 so you can collect coredumps there.
9348 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
9349 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
9350 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
9351 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
9352 dns cache actually gets populated.
9353 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
9354 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
9355 end cell down it first.
9356 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
9357 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
9360 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
9362 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
9363 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
9365 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
9366 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
9367 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
9368 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
9369 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
9370 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
9372 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
9374 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
9375 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
9376 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
9377 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
9378 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
9379 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
9381 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
9382 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
9385 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
9387 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
9388 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
9389 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
9390 tor. It even has a man page.
9391 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
9392 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
9393 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
9394 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
9396 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
9398 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
9401 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
9403 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
9405 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
9406 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
9407 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
9408 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
9409 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
9410 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
9411 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
9412 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
9413 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
9414 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
9415 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
9417 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
9418 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
9421 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
9423 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
9424 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
9427 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
9429 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
9430 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
9431 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
9432 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
9433 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
9434 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
9435 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
9436 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
9437 logfile so you know it's working.
9438 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
9439 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
9442 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
9444 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
9445 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
9446 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
9449 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
9451 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
9452 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
9453 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
9456 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
9457 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
9458 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
9460 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
9461 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
9463 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
9464 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
9465 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
9467 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
9468 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
9472 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
9474 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
9475 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
9476 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
9479 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
9480 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
9481 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
9482 - Add port ranges to exit policies
9483 - Add a conservative default exit policy
9484 - Warn if you're running tor as root
9485 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
9486 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
9487 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
9488 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
9490 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
9493 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
9494 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9495 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
9496 really screw things up.
9497 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
9499 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
9500 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
9502 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
9503 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
9504 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
9505 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
9506 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
9507 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
9510 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
9513 - Change default loglevel to warn.
9514 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
9515 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
9517 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
9520 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
9521 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9522 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
9523 - to get ownership/permissions right
9524 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
9525 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
9526 pull down a directory again
9527 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
9528 causing server crashes
9529 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
9530 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
9531 - exit if bind() fails
9532 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
9533 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
9534 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
9535 - fix minor bias in PRNG
9536 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
9539 - Wrote the design document (woo)
9541 o Circuit building and exit policies:
9542 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
9544 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
9545 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
9546 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
9547 exists, rather than failing
9548 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
9549 which AP connections are standing by
9550 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
9551 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
9552 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
9554 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
9555 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
9558 - APPort is now called SocksPort
9559 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
9561 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
9562 hardcoded (for dirservers)
9563 - Reloads config on HUP
9564 - Usage info on -h or --help
9565 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
9568 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
9569 o General stability:
9570 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
9571 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
9572 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
9573 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
9574 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
9575 to take down the network when I approve a new router
9576 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
9579 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
9580 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
9582 o Autoconf improvements:
9583 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
9584 - Make install now works
9585 - create var/lib/tor on make install
9586 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
9587 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
9589 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
9590 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
9591 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
9592 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup