1 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-07-??
4 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
5 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
6 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
7 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
8 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
9 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
13 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
14 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
15 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
16 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
17 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
18 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
19 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
20 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
21 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
22 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
23 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
24 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
25 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
27 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
28 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
29 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
30 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
32 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
33 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
34 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
35 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
36 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
37 can be controlled by the consensus.
40 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
41 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
42 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
43 more accurate data for many African countries.
44 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
45 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
46 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
47 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
48 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
49 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
50 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
51 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
52 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
53 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
54 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
55 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
57 o New directory authorities:
58 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
62 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
63 occurs whenever Tor receives only an IP address instead of a
64 hostname. Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine, and we
65 shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
66 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
67 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
68 what should go in a patch.
69 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
70 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
71 over our stored history.
72 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
73 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
74 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
75 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
77 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
78 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
79 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
83 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
85 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
86 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
87 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
88 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
89 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
90 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
91 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
92 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
93 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
94 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
95 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
96 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
97 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
98 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
99 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
100 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
101 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
102 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
103 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
104 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
105 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
106 two-hop circuits are actually created.
107 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
108 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
109 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
110 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
113 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
114 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
115 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
116 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
117 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
119 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
120 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
123 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
124 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
125 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
126 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
127 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
128 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
129 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
130 their directory fetches over TLS).
131 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
132 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
133 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
134 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
135 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
136 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
137 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
138 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
141 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
142 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
146 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
147 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
148 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
149 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
150 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
151 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
152 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
155 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
156 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
157 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
158 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
159 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
162 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
163 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
164 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
165 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
166 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
167 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
168 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
169 their directory fetches over TLS).
172 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
173 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
175 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
176 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
177 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
178 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
179 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
180 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
181 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
182 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
183 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
184 hour of their uptime.
187 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
188 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
189 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
193 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
194 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
195 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
196 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
197 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
198 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
200 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
201 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
202 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
204 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
205 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
209 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
210 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
211 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
215 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
216 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
217 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
220 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
221 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
222 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
223 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
224 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
225 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
226 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
227 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
228 about the option without breaking older ones.
229 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
230 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
231 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
232 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
235 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
236 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
237 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
238 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
240 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
241 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
242 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
245 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
246 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
248 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
249 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
250 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
251 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
252 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
253 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
254 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
255 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
256 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
257 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
258 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
261 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
262 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
263 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
264 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
265 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
266 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
267 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
270 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
271 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
272 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
273 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
274 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
275 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
278 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
279 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
280 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
281 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
283 o Major features (performance):
284 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
285 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
286 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
287 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
288 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
289 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
290 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
292 o Minor features (performance):
293 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
294 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
295 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
296 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
297 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
301 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
302 speeds up the build considerably.
304 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
305 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
306 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
307 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
308 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
309 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
310 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
311 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
313 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
314 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
315 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
317 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
318 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
319 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
320 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
322 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
323 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
324 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
325 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
326 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
327 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
330 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
331 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
332 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
334 o Directory authority changes:
335 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
336 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
337 service directory authority) from the list.
340 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
341 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
342 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
343 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
344 libraries in a security patch.
345 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
346 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
347 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
348 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
350 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
351 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
352 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
353 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
354 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
355 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
356 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
359 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
360 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
361 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
362 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
363 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
364 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
365 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
366 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
367 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
368 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
369 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
370 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
371 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
373 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
374 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
375 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
376 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
377 control-spec.txt said they were.
378 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
379 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
380 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
381 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
382 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
384 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
385 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
386 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
388 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
389 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
391 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
392 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
393 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
394 projects directory in svn.
395 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
396 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
397 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
401 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
402 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
403 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
405 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
406 to the circuit build timeout.
407 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
408 arguments we do not recognize.
409 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
410 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
411 open() without checking it.
414 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
415 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
416 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
417 several minor potential security bugs.
420 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
421 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
422 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
423 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
424 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
425 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
426 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
429 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
430 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
432 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
433 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
434 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
435 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
439 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
440 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
444 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
445 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
446 customized patches to run/build.
449 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
450 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
451 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
454 o Major bugfixes (performance):
455 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
456 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
457 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
458 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
459 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
460 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
461 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
464 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
465 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
466 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
467 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
468 libraries in a security patch.
469 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
470 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
471 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
472 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
475 o Directory authority changes:
476 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
477 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
478 service directory authority) from the list.
481 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
482 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
485 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
486 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
487 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
488 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
489 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
492 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
493 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
494 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
498 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
499 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
500 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
501 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
502 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
505 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
506 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
507 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
511 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
512 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
513 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
514 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
515 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
517 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
518 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
520 o Directory authority changes:
521 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
524 o Major features (performance):
525 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
526 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
527 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
528 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
529 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
530 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
531 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
532 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
533 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
534 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
535 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
536 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
537 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
539 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
540 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
541 but never per-conn write limits.
542 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
543 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
544 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
545 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
547 o Major features (relay selection options):
548 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
549 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
550 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
551 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
552 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
553 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
554 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
556 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
557 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
559 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
560 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
561 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
562 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
563 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
564 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
565 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
566 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
570 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
571 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
572 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
575 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
576 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
577 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
578 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
579 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
580 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
581 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
582 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
583 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
584 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
585 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
586 generated while acting as a relay.
587 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
588 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
589 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
590 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
591 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
592 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
594 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
595 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
596 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
597 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
598 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
599 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
602 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
603 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
604 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
606 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
607 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
608 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
610 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
611 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
613 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
614 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
615 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
617 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
618 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
621 o Minor bugfixes (other):
622 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
623 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
624 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
625 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
626 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
627 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
628 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
629 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
631 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
635 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
636 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
637 hidden service usage.
640 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
641 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
642 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
643 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
644 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
646 o Directory authority changes:
647 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
651 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
652 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
653 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
656 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
657 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
658 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
659 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
660 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
663 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
664 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
665 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
666 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
667 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
668 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
669 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
672 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
673 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
674 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
675 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
676 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
677 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
679 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
680 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
683 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
684 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
685 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
686 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
687 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
688 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
691 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
692 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
693 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
695 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
696 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
697 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
698 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
699 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
700 download consensus + microdescriptors".
701 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
702 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
703 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
704 hash algorithm in the future.
705 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
706 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
707 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
708 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
709 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
710 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
711 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
712 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
713 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
716 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
717 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
718 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
719 won't work unless we say we are.
722 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
723 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
724 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
725 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
726 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
727 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
728 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
729 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
730 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
731 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
732 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
733 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
734 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
735 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
736 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
737 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
738 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
739 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
740 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
741 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
742 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
743 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
746 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
747 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
748 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
749 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
751 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
752 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
754 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
755 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
756 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
757 in the Vidalia Settings window.
760 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
761 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
762 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
763 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
764 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
766 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
767 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
769 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
770 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
771 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
774 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
775 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
776 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
778 o New directory authorities:
779 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
781 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
784 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
785 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
787 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
788 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
789 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
790 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
791 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
792 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
793 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
794 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
795 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
796 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
797 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
798 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
799 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
800 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
801 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
802 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
803 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
805 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
806 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
807 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
809 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
810 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
814 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
815 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
816 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
817 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
818 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
821 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
822 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
825 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
827 o New directory authorities:
828 - Move dizum to an alternate IP address.
831 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
832 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
833 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
834 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
835 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
838 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
839 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
840 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
841 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
843 o New directory authorities:
844 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
847 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
848 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
849 SSL handshake issues.
850 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
851 during the TLS handshake.
852 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
853 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
854 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
855 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
856 none of which are very big.
859 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
861 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
862 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
863 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
864 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
865 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
866 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
867 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
868 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
871 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
872 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
873 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
874 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
875 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
878 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
879 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
882 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
883 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
886 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
887 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
888 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
891 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
892 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
893 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
894 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
895 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
896 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
899 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
900 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
901 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
902 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
903 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
904 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
905 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
906 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
907 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
908 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
909 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
910 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
911 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
912 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
913 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
914 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
915 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
916 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
919 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
920 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
924 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
925 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
926 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
927 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
928 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
929 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
930 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
931 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
932 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
933 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
934 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
935 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
936 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
937 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
938 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
939 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
940 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
941 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
942 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
943 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
944 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
946 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
947 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
948 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
949 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
950 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
951 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
953 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
954 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
955 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
958 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
959 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
960 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
961 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
962 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
963 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
966 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
967 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
968 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
969 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
970 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
973 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
974 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
975 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
978 o New directory authorities:
979 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
983 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
984 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
985 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
986 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
987 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
990 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
991 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
992 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
993 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
994 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
997 o New options for gathering stats safely:
998 - Directories that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics on
999 directory request to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
1000 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
1001 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
1002 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
1003 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
1004 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
1005 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
1006 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
1008 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
1009 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
1010 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
1011 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
1013 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
1014 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
1015 their extra-info documents.
1018 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
1019 source files Tor was built with.
1020 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
1021 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
1022 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
1023 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
1024 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
1025 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
1027 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
1028 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
1029 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
1030 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
1031 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
1033 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
1034 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
1037 - If any the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should actually
1038 notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix on
1039 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
1040 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
1041 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
1043 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
1044 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
1046 o Deprecated and removed features:
1047 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
1048 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
1049 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
1050 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
1051 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
1052 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
1053 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
1054 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
1056 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
1057 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
1058 via application-level web tricks.
1060 o Packaging changes:
1061 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
1062 installer bundles. See
1063 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
1064 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
1065 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
1066 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
1067 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
1068 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
1069 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
1070 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
1071 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
1072 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
1073 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
1074 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
1077 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
1078 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
1079 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
1082 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
1083 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
1084 part of patch provided by "optimist".
1087 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
1088 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
1089 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
1090 and confuse fewer users.
1093 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
1094 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
1095 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
1096 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
1097 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
1098 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
1099 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
1102 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
1103 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
1104 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
1105 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
1106 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
1107 other features and bug fixes.
1110 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
1113 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
1114 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
1115 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
1116 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
1117 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
1120 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
1121 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
1122 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
1123 failure message (oops).
1126 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
1127 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
1128 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
1129 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
1133 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
1134 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
1135 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
1136 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
1137 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
1138 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
1139 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1140 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
1141 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
1142 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
1143 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
1144 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
1145 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
1146 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
1147 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
1150 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
1151 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1152 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
1153 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
1154 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
1155 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
1156 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
1157 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
1158 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
1159 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
1160 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
1161 Workaround for bug 1024.
1162 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
1166 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
1167 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
1168 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
1171 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
1173 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
1174 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
1175 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
1176 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
1177 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
1180 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
1181 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
1182 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
1183 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
1184 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
1185 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
1186 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
1187 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
1188 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
1189 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
1192 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
1193 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
1194 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
1195 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
1196 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
1197 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
1198 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
1199 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
1202 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
1203 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
1204 a bunch of minor bugs.
1207 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
1208 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
1209 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
1211 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
1212 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
1213 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
1214 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
1216 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
1220 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
1221 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
1222 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
1224 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1225 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
1227 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
1228 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
1230 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
1231 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
1232 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
1233 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
1234 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
1235 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
1236 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
1237 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
1239 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1240 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
1241 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
1243 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
1244 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
1245 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
1246 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
1247 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
1251 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
1252 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
1253 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
1256 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1257 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
1258 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
1259 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
1261 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1262 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
1263 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
1264 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1265 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
1266 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
1267 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
1268 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
1269 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
1270 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
1271 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
1272 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1273 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
1274 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
1275 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
1276 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
1277 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
1279 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
1280 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
1281 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
1282 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1284 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1285 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
1286 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
1289 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
1290 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
1291 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
1292 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
1293 addresses to fall out of the directory.
1296 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
1297 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
1298 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
1299 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
1301 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
1302 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
1303 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
1304 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
1305 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
1306 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
1307 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
1308 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
1309 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
1310 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
1311 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
1312 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
1313 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
1315 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
1316 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
1319 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
1320 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
1321 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
1322 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
1323 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
1324 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
1326 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
1327 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
1328 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
1329 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
1330 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
1332 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
1335 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
1336 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
1338 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
1339 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
1340 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1341 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1342 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
1343 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
1345 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
1346 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1347 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
1348 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
1349 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
1350 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1351 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
1352 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
1353 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
1354 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
1355 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
1356 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
1360 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
1361 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
1362 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
1365 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
1366 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
1367 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1369 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
1370 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
1371 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
1372 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
1373 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
1374 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
1375 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
1376 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
1377 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
1378 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
1379 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
1380 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1381 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
1382 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
1383 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1384 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
1385 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
1386 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
1387 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
1388 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
1389 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
1390 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
1391 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
1392 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
1393 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
1394 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
1396 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
1397 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
1398 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
1399 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
1400 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
1401 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
1402 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
1403 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
1404 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
1405 of 0. Suggested by lark.
1407 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1408 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
1409 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
1410 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
1411 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1414 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
1416 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
1417 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
1418 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
1419 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
1422 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
1423 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
1424 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
1425 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
1426 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
1428 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
1429 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
1430 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
1431 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1434 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
1435 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1436 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
1437 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
1438 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
1439 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
1440 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
1441 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
1444 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
1445 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
1446 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
1447 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
1450 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
1451 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
1452 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
1453 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
1454 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
1455 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
1458 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
1459 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1460 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
1461 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
1462 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
1463 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1466 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
1467 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
1468 reported by Matt Edman.
1469 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
1471 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
1472 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
1473 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
1474 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
1476 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
1477 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1478 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
1479 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1480 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
1481 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
1482 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
1483 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
1484 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
1485 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
1486 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
1487 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
1488 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
1489 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1490 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
1491 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1492 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
1493 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
1494 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1497 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
1498 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
1499 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
1500 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
1503 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
1504 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
1505 the letter of C99's alias rules.
1508 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
1509 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
1510 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
1511 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
1513 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
1514 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
1515 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
1518 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
1519 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
1522 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
1523 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
1524 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
1525 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
1526 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
1528 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
1529 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
1530 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
1531 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
1532 identify a connection.
1533 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
1534 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
1535 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
1536 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
1537 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
1538 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
1539 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1540 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
1541 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
1542 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
1544 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
1545 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
1546 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
1547 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
1548 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
1549 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
1550 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
1553 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
1554 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
1556 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
1557 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
1558 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
1559 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
1560 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
1561 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
1562 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1563 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
1565 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
1566 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
1567 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
1568 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
1569 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
1570 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
1571 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
1572 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
1573 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
1574 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
1575 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
1576 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
1577 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
1578 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
1579 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1580 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
1581 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
1582 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1583 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
1584 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
1585 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
1586 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
1587 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
1588 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
1589 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
1590 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
1591 840. Patch from rovv.
1592 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
1593 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
1594 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
1596 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
1597 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
1598 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
1599 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
1600 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
1601 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
1602 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
1604 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1605 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
1606 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
1609 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
1610 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
1612 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
1613 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
1614 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
1615 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
1616 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
1617 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
1618 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
1619 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
1620 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
1622 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
1624 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
1625 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
1629 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
1630 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
1631 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
1632 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
1633 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
1634 have had some time to upgrade.)
1637 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
1638 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
1641 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
1642 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
1643 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
1644 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
1645 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
1648 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
1649 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
1651 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
1652 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1653 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
1654 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
1655 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
1656 entirely. Patch from coderman.
1659 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
1660 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1661 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
1662 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
1663 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
1664 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1665 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
1669 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
1670 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
1671 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
1672 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
1673 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
1674 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
1675 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
1678 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
1679 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
1680 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
1681 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
1682 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
1684 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
1685 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
1686 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
1687 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
1688 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
1689 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
1690 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1691 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
1692 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
1693 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
1697 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
1698 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
1699 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
1701 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
1702 without support for deprecated functions.
1703 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
1705 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1706 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
1707 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
1708 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
1709 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1710 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
1711 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
1712 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
1713 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
1714 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
1715 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
1716 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
1717 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
1718 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
1719 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
1720 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
1721 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
1722 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
1723 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
1724 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
1725 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
1726 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
1727 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
1729 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
1730 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
1731 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
1732 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
1733 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
1734 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
1736 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
1737 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
1738 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
1739 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
1740 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
1742 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
1743 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
1744 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
1746 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
1747 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
1750 o Deprecated and removed features:
1751 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
1752 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
1753 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
1756 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1757 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
1758 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
1759 with log.h on Android.
1760 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
1761 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
1764 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
1765 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
1767 o New directory authorities:
1768 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
1772 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
1773 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
1774 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
1775 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
1776 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
1777 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1780 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
1781 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
1782 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
1783 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
1784 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
1785 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
1786 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
1787 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
1789 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
1790 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
1791 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
1792 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
1795 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
1796 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
1798 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
1799 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
1800 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
1801 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
1802 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
1803 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
1804 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
1805 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
1806 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
1807 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
1808 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
1809 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
1810 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
1811 Implements proposal 148.
1812 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
1813 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
1814 system to do it for us.
1815 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
1816 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
1817 this fix will be slightly helpful.
1818 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
1819 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
1820 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
1821 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
1822 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
1823 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
1824 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
1825 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
1826 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
1829 o Minor features (controller):
1830 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
1831 been fetched and validated.
1832 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
1833 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
1834 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
1835 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
1836 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
1837 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
1840 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
1841 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1842 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
1843 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
1844 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
1846 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
1847 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
1848 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1849 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
1850 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
1851 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
1852 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
1853 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
1854 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
1856 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1857 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
1858 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
1859 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
1860 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
1861 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
1862 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
1863 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
1865 o Deprecated and removed features:
1866 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
1868 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
1869 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
1870 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
1872 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1873 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
1874 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
1876 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
1877 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
1878 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
1879 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
1880 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
1881 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
1884 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
1885 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
1886 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
1887 fixes a variety of other issues.
1890 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
1891 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
1892 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
1893 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
1896 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
1897 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
1898 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
1899 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1902 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
1903 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1904 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
1908 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
1910 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
1911 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
1912 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
1913 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
1914 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
1915 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
1916 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
1918 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
1919 rest, and don't automatically fail.
1920 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
1921 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1922 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
1923 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
1925 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
1926 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
1927 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
1928 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
1929 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
1930 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
1931 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
1932 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
1933 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
1934 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
1936 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
1940 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
1941 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
1942 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
1944 o Minor features (controller):
1945 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
1949 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
1950 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
1951 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
1952 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
1953 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
1954 variety of other issues.
1957 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
1958 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
1959 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
1960 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
1961 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
1962 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
1963 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
1964 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
1965 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
1966 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
1967 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
1968 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
1971 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
1972 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1974 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1975 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
1976 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
1977 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
1978 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
1979 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
1980 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1981 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
1982 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
1983 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
1984 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
1985 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
1986 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
1987 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
1988 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
1992 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
1993 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
1994 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
1995 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
1996 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
1997 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
1998 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
1999 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
2000 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
2001 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
2002 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
2003 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
2004 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
2005 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
2006 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
2007 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
2008 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
2009 list. It has been gone for many months.
2010 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
2011 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
2012 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
2015 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2016 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
2017 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
2020 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
2021 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
2022 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
2023 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
2024 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
2025 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
2026 variety of other issues.
2029 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
2030 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
2031 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
2032 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
2033 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
2034 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
2035 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
2036 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
2037 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
2038 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
2039 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
2040 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
2041 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
2042 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
2045 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
2046 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
2047 Suggested by Lucky Green.
2048 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
2049 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
2050 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
2051 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
2052 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
2053 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
2055 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
2056 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
2058 o Hidden service performance improvements:
2059 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
2060 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
2061 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
2062 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
2063 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
2064 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
2065 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
2066 faster after restart.
2069 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
2070 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
2071 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
2072 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
2073 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
2074 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
2075 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
2076 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
2077 840. Patch from rovv.
2078 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
2079 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
2080 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
2081 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
2082 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
2083 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
2084 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
2085 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
2086 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
2088 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
2089 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
2090 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
2091 have already been marked for close.
2092 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
2093 introduction points.
2094 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
2095 memory performance during directory parsing.
2096 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
2097 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
2098 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
2099 because of a pending download.
2102 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
2103 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
2104 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
2105 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2108 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
2109 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
2110 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
2111 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
2112 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
2113 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
2114 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
2115 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
2116 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
2117 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
2118 lookups more reliable.
2119 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
2120 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
2121 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
2122 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
2123 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
2124 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
2125 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2128 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
2129 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
2130 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2131 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
2132 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
2133 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
2134 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
2135 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
2136 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
2137 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
2138 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
2140 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
2141 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
2142 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
2143 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
2144 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
2145 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2146 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
2147 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
2148 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2151 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
2152 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
2153 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
2154 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
2155 locked down these days.
2156 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
2157 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
2158 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
2159 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
2160 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
2162 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
2163 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
2164 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
2165 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
2166 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
2167 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
2168 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
2169 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
2170 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
2171 people find host:port too confusing.
2172 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
2173 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2174 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
2177 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2179 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
2180 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
2181 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
2182 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
2183 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
2185 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
2186 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
2187 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
2188 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
2189 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
2190 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
2191 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
2192 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
2193 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
2194 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
2195 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
2196 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
2198 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
2199 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
2200 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
2201 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
2202 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
2203 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
2204 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2205 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
2206 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
2208 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
2209 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
2210 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
2211 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
2212 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
2213 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2214 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
2215 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
2216 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
2217 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
2218 bug 820, reported by seeess.
2219 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
2220 list. It has been gone for many months.
2222 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2223 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
2224 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
2225 actual mistakes we're making here.
2226 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
2227 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
2228 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
2229 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
2232 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
2233 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
2234 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
2235 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2238 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
2239 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
2240 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
2241 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
2242 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
2243 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
2245 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
2246 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
2247 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
2248 pointed out by rovv.
2251 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
2252 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2253 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
2254 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2255 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
2256 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
2257 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
2258 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
2259 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
2260 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2261 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
2262 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
2263 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
2264 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2265 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
2266 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
2267 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
2268 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
2269 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
2270 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
2271 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
2274 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
2275 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
2276 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
2277 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
2278 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
2279 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
2280 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2283 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
2285 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
2286 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
2287 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
2288 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
2289 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
2290 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
2291 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
2293 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
2294 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
2295 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
2296 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
2297 known descriptor before building circuits.
2299 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
2300 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
2301 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
2302 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
2303 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
2304 identify a connection.
2305 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
2306 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
2307 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
2309 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
2310 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
2311 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
2312 pointed out by rovv.
2315 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
2316 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2317 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
2318 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
2319 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
2320 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2321 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
2322 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
2323 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
2324 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
2325 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
2326 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
2327 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
2328 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
2329 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2332 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
2333 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
2334 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
2335 answer sections match.
2336 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
2337 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
2340 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
2341 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2344 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
2345 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
2346 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
2348 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
2349 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
2350 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2353 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
2354 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
2355 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
2356 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
2360 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
2361 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
2364 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
2365 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
2366 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
2367 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
2368 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
2369 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
2371 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
2372 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
2373 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
2376 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
2377 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
2378 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
2379 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
2380 be sent using an "early" cell.
2383 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
2384 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
2385 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
2386 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
2387 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
2388 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
2389 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
2392 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
2393 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
2394 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
2395 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
2396 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
2397 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
2398 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
2399 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
2400 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
2401 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
2402 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
2403 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
2404 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
2405 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
2406 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
2407 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
2410 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
2411 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
2412 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
2413 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
2414 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
2415 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
2416 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
2417 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
2418 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
2420 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
2421 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
2422 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
2423 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
2424 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
2427 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2428 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
2429 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
2430 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
2433 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
2434 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
2438 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
2440 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
2441 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
2442 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
2445 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
2446 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
2447 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
2450 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
2451 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
2452 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
2453 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
2454 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2455 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
2456 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
2457 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
2458 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2459 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
2460 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
2461 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
2462 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2463 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
2464 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
2465 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
2466 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
2467 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
2468 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
2469 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
2470 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
2471 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
2472 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
2475 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
2476 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
2478 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
2479 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
2480 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
2481 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
2482 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
2483 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
2484 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
2486 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
2487 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
2488 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
2489 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
2490 found by Geoff Goodell.
2493 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
2494 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
2495 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
2496 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
2497 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
2498 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
2501 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
2502 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
2503 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
2506 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
2507 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
2508 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
2509 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
2510 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2511 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
2512 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
2513 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
2514 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2515 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
2516 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
2517 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
2518 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
2519 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
2522 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
2523 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
2524 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
2526 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
2527 fingerprints with or without space.
2528 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
2529 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
2530 partway through and wants to catch up.
2531 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
2532 state to start out in.
2535 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
2536 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
2537 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2538 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
2539 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
2542 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
2543 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
2544 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
2545 some of the connection attempts fail.
2546 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
2547 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
2548 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
2549 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
2550 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
2551 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
2553 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
2554 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
2555 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
2558 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
2559 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
2560 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
2561 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
2562 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
2563 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
2564 and adds a variety of smaller features.
2567 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
2568 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
2569 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
2570 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
2572 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
2573 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
2574 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
2575 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
2577 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
2578 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
2579 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
2580 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
2581 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
2582 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
2583 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
2586 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
2587 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
2588 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
2589 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
2590 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
2592 o Memory fixes and improvements:
2593 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
2594 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
2595 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
2596 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
2597 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
2598 on a typical directory cache.
2599 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
2600 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
2601 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
2602 and may reduce fragmentation.
2603 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
2604 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
2605 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
2607 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
2608 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
2609 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
2611 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
2612 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
2616 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
2617 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
2618 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
2619 done that for a long time.
2620 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
2621 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
2622 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
2623 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
2626 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
2627 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
2628 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
2629 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
2630 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
2631 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
2633 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
2634 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
2635 output to messages of warning and error severity.
2636 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
2637 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
2638 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
2639 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
2640 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
2641 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
2642 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
2643 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
2644 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
2645 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
2646 directory requests we should expect to see.
2647 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
2649 - Lots of new unit tests.
2650 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
2651 two parallel lists in lockstep.
2654 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
2655 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
2656 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
2659 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
2660 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
2661 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
2662 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
2663 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
2664 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
2665 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
2668 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
2669 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
2670 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
2674 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
2675 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
2676 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
2679 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
2680 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
2681 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
2683 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
2684 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
2686 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
2687 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
2688 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
2689 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
2690 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2691 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
2692 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
2694 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
2695 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
2696 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
2697 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
2698 - Fix compile on Windows.
2701 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
2702 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
2703 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
2704 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
2705 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
2706 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
2707 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
2710 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
2711 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
2714 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
2715 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
2716 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
2717 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
2719 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
2720 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
2721 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
2724 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
2725 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
2726 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
2727 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
2731 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
2732 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
2733 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
2734 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
2736 o Major security fixes:
2737 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
2738 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
2739 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
2740 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
2741 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
2744 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
2745 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2748 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
2749 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
2752 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
2753 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
2756 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
2757 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
2758 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
2761 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
2762 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2765 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
2766 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
2767 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
2768 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
2769 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
2771 o New directory authorities:
2772 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
2773 it has been down for months.
2774 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
2778 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
2779 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
2781 o Minor features (security):
2782 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
2783 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
2784 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
2787 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
2788 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
2789 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
2790 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
2791 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
2792 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
2793 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
2794 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
2795 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2797 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
2798 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
2799 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2800 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
2801 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
2802 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
2803 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2804 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
2805 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
2807 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2808 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
2809 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
2810 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
2811 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
2812 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
2813 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
2814 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
2815 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
2816 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
2817 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2818 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
2819 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
2820 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
2821 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
2822 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
2823 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
2824 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
2825 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
2828 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
2829 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
2830 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
2831 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
2834 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
2835 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
2836 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
2837 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
2840 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
2841 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
2842 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
2843 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
2844 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
2847 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
2848 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
2849 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
2850 certain censored countries by default again.
2853 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
2854 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2855 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
2856 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
2857 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2858 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
2859 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
2860 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
2862 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2863 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
2864 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
2865 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
2866 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
2867 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
2868 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
2869 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
2870 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
2871 a directory. Fix from lodger.
2873 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2874 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
2875 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
2876 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
2877 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
2878 RelayBandwidth* values.
2879 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
2880 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
2881 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
2882 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
2883 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
2884 get_interface_address6().
2885 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
2886 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
2887 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
2889 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
2890 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
2891 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
2892 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2893 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
2894 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
2895 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2896 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
2897 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
2898 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2901 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
2902 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
2903 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
2906 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
2907 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
2908 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
2909 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
2910 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
2913 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
2914 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
2915 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
2916 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
2917 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
2918 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
2919 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
2920 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
2921 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
2924 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
2925 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
2926 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
2927 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2930 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
2931 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
2932 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
2933 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
2934 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
2935 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
2936 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
2939 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
2940 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
2941 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
2942 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
2943 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
2944 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
2945 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
2947 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
2948 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
2949 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
2950 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
2951 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
2954 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
2955 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
2957 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
2958 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
2959 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
2960 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2961 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
2962 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
2963 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
2964 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
2965 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
2966 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
2967 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
2968 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
2969 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2970 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
2971 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2972 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2973 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
2974 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
2975 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
2976 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
2977 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
2978 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
2979 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
2981 o Minor features (performance):
2982 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
2984 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
2985 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
2986 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
2987 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
2988 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
2989 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
2990 non-system include paths.
2991 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
2992 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
2995 o Minor features (other):
2996 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
2998 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
2999 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
3000 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
3003 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
3004 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
3005 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
3006 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
3008 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
3009 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
3010 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
3011 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
3013 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
3014 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
3015 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3016 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
3017 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3019 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3020 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
3021 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
3022 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
3023 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
3024 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
3025 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
3026 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
3027 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
3028 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
3029 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
3030 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
3031 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
3032 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
3033 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
3034 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3035 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
3036 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
3037 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
3038 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
3039 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
3040 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
3041 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
3042 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
3043 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
3046 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3047 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
3048 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
3052 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
3053 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
3054 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
3055 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
3056 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
3059 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
3060 Tor's x509 certificates.
3063 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
3064 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
3065 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3066 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
3067 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
3068 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3070 o Minor features (security):
3071 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
3072 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
3074 o Minor features (directory authority):
3075 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
3076 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
3077 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
3078 bandwidthburst values.
3080 o Minor features (controller):
3081 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
3082 processes from running us out of memory.
3084 o Minor features (misc):
3085 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
3086 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
3087 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
3088 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
3090 o Deprecated features (controller):
3091 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
3092 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
3093 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
3096 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
3097 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
3099 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
3100 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
3101 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3102 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
3103 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
3104 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3105 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
3106 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
3108 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
3109 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3110 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
3111 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3112 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
3113 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
3114 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
3115 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
3117 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
3118 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
3119 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
3120 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
3121 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3122 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
3123 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3124 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
3125 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3126 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
3127 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
3128 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3130 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3131 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
3133 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
3134 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
3135 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
3136 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
3137 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
3138 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
3141 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
3142 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
3143 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
3144 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
3145 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
3147 o New directory authorities:
3148 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
3152 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
3153 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
3154 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
3155 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
3156 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
3157 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
3158 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
3159 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
3163 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
3164 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
3165 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
3166 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
3167 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
3168 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
3169 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
3170 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
3171 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
3172 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
3175 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
3176 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
3177 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
3178 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
3182 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
3183 the request isn't encrypted.
3184 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
3185 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
3186 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
3187 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
3188 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
3191 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
3192 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
3195 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
3198 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
3199 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
3200 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
3202 o New directory authorities:
3203 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
3206 o Major performance improvements:
3207 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
3208 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
3209 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
3210 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
3211 memory fragmentation.
3214 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
3215 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
3216 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
3217 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
3218 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
3219 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
3220 bodies when they receive them.
3221 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
3222 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
3223 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
3225 o Minor performance improvements:
3226 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
3227 of them were actually distinct.
3228 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
3229 interested in a given message.
3232 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
3233 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
3234 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
3235 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
3236 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
3237 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
3238 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
3239 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
3240 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
3241 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
3242 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
3244 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
3245 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
3246 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
3247 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
3248 this country" and "1 person from this country".
3249 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
3250 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
3251 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
3252 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
3253 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
3255 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
3256 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
3257 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
3259 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
3260 but client versions are not.
3261 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
3262 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
3264 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
3265 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
3266 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
3267 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
3268 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
3270 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
3271 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
3272 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
3275 o Minor features (controller):
3276 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
3277 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
3278 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
3279 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
3281 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3282 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
3283 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
3284 running a test network on a single host.
3285 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
3286 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
3288 o Minor features (bridges):
3289 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
3290 unencrypted connections.
3292 o Minor features (other):
3293 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
3294 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
3295 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
3296 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
3299 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
3300 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
3301 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
3302 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
3305 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
3306 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
3307 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
3308 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
3312 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
3313 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
3314 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
3315 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
3316 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
3317 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
3318 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
3319 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
3320 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
3321 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
3322 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
3323 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
3326 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
3327 rebuild our server descriptor.
3328 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
3329 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
3330 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
3331 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
3332 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
3333 nonstandard integer types.
3334 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
3335 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
3336 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
3337 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
3338 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
3340 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
3341 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
3342 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
3343 when they receive them.
3344 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
3345 This includes some 64-bit systems.
3346 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
3347 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
3348 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
3349 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
3350 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
3351 router_get_by_hexdigest().
3352 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
3353 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
3357 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
3358 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
3359 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3362 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
3363 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
3364 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
3365 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
3366 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
3367 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
3368 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
3369 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3372 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
3373 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
3374 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
3375 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
3377 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
3378 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
3381 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
3382 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
3385 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
3387 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
3388 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
3390 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
3391 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
3392 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
3393 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3394 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
3395 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
3396 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
3397 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3398 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
3399 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
3403 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
3404 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
3405 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
3408 - Make the unit tests build again.
3409 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
3410 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
3411 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
3412 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
3413 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
3414 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3415 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
3416 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
3417 the next one as a duplicate.
3420 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
3421 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
3422 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
3423 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
3426 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
3427 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
3428 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
3431 o New directory authorities:
3432 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
3436 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
3437 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
3438 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
3439 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
3440 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
3441 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
3442 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
3444 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
3445 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
3447 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
3448 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
3449 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
3450 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
3451 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
3452 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
3454 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
3455 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
3456 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3457 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
3458 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
3459 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3462 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
3463 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
3464 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
3465 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
3466 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
3467 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
3468 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
3469 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
3470 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
3471 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
3472 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
3473 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
3474 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
3475 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
3476 where Tor is blocked.
3477 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
3478 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
3479 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
3480 to a file periodically.
3481 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
3482 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
3483 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
3487 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
3488 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
3489 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
3490 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
3491 in the relevant networkstatus document.
3492 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
3493 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
3494 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3495 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
3496 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
3497 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
3498 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
3500 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
3501 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
3502 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
3503 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
3504 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
3505 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3506 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
3507 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
3508 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
3509 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3510 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
3511 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
3512 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
3513 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3514 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
3515 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
3516 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
3517 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
3518 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
3519 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3520 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3521 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
3522 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3523 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
3524 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
3525 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3526 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
3527 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3530 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
3531 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
3532 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
3533 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
3534 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
3535 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
3536 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
3537 even if your DirPort isn't on.
3538 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
3539 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
3540 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
3542 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
3543 multiple controller passwords.
3544 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
3545 router based on the router's purpose.
3546 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
3547 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
3548 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
3549 the approved-routers file.
3552 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
3553 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
3554 well as a few minor bugs.
3557 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
3558 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
3559 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
3561 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
3562 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
3563 rebuild our server descriptor.
3565 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
3566 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
3567 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
3568 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
3569 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
3570 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
3571 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
3572 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
3573 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
3574 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
3576 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
3577 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
3578 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
3579 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
3580 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
3581 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
3582 then be flexible about families.
3585 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
3586 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
3587 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
3591 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
3592 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
3593 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
3594 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
3595 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
3598 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
3599 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
3600 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
3601 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
3602 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3605 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
3606 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
3608 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
3609 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
3610 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
3611 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
3612 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
3613 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
3614 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3616 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
3617 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
3618 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
3619 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
3622 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
3623 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
3626 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
3627 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
3628 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3631 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
3632 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
3633 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
3634 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
3635 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
3636 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
3637 addresses many more minor issues.
3639 o New directory authorities:
3640 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
3643 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
3644 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
3645 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
3646 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
3648 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
3649 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
3650 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
3651 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
3652 and are reaching it.
3653 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
3654 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
3655 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
3656 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
3657 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
3658 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
3661 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
3662 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
3664 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
3665 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
3666 no longer work for clients.
3667 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
3668 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
3670 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
3671 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
3672 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
3673 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
3674 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
3675 enough directory information to build a circuit.
3676 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
3677 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
3678 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
3679 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
3680 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
3681 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
3683 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
3684 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
3685 requests for all of them.
3686 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
3688 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
3689 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
3690 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
3693 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
3694 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
3698 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
3699 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
3700 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
3701 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
3702 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
3703 networkstatuses that we already have.
3704 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
3705 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
3706 we start knowing some directory caches.
3707 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
3708 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
3709 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
3710 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
3711 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
3712 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
3713 Good in combination with --hash-password.
3714 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
3715 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
3717 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
3718 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
3719 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
3721 o Minor features (bridges):
3722 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
3723 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
3724 back to trying the bridge directly.
3725 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
3726 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
3728 o Minor features (controller):
3729 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
3730 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
3731 report the value as a "minimum skew."
3734 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
3735 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
3739 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
3740 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
3741 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
3742 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
3743 reported by tup and ioerror.
3744 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
3745 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
3747 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3748 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
3750 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
3751 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
3752 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
3754 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
3755 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3756 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
3757 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3758 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
3759 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3760 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
3762 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
3763 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
3764 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3766 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
3767 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
3768 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
3769 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
3770 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
3773 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
3774 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
3775 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
3776 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
3777 lists for a few hours each day.
3779 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3780 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
3781 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
3782 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
3783 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
3784 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3785 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
3786 rend_process_relay_cell().
3788 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3789 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
3790 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
3791 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
3792 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
3793 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
3794 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
3795 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
3797 o Major bugfixes (other):
3798 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
3799 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
3800 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
3801 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
3802 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
3803 circuit cannibalization).
3804 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
3805 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
3806 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
3807 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
3808 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
3809 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
3812 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
3813 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
3815 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
3816 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
3817 absent. Resolves bug 467.
3818 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
3819 a way to trigger this remotely.)
3820 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
3821 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
3822 were reporting the dir port.)
3823 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
3824 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
3825 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
3826 the future. Fixes bug 434.
3827 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
3829 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
3830 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
3831 the onion key from getting rotated.
3832 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
3833 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
3834 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
3835 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
3836 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
3837 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
3838 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
3839 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
3840 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
3843 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
3844 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
3845 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
3846 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
3847 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
3848 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
3850 o Major features (directory system):
3851 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
3852 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
3853 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
3854 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
3855 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
3856 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
3857 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
3858 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
3859 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
3860 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
3861 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
3862 Partially implements proposal 122.
3863 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
3864 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
3867 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
3868 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
3869 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
3870 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
3872 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
3873 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
3874 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
3875 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
3876 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
3877 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3878 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
3879 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
3880 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3882 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
3883 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
3885 - Allow certificates to include an address.
3886 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
3887 and download operations.
3888 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
3889 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
3890 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
3891 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
3892 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
3893 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
3895 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
3896 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
3899 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
3900 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
3901 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
3902 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
3904 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
3905 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
3906 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
3908 o Minor features (performance):
3909 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
3910 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
3911 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
3912 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
3913 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
3914 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
3915 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
3918 o Minor features (compilation):
3919 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
3920 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
3922 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
3923 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
3924 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
3925 stick around indefinitely.
3926 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
3928 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
3929 v3 directory authority.
3930 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
3931 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
3933 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
3934 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
3935 "moria on moria:9031."
3936 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
3937 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
3938 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
3939 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
3940 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
3941 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
3942 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
3943 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
3945 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
3946 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
3947 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
3948 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
3949 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
3950 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
3951 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
3952 downloads than for other types.
3954 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
3955 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
3957 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
3958 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
3959 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3961 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3962 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
3963 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3964 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
3965 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
3966 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
3967 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
3968 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
3970 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3971 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
3972 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
3973 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
3974 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3975 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
3976 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
3977 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3978 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
3979 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
3980 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
3982 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
3983 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
3986 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3987 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
3988 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
3989 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
3990 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
3991 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
3992 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
3993 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
3994 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
3995 so that they all take the same named flags.
3998 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
3999 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
4000 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
4003 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
4004 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
4005 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
4006 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
4007 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
4008 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
4010 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
4011 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
4012 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
4013 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
4014 annotations along with descriptors.
4015 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
4016 source, and its purpose.
4017 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
4019 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
4020 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
4021 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
4022 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
4025 o Major features (directory authorities):
4026 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
4028 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
4029 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
4030 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
4031 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
4032 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
4033 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
4035 o Major features (v3 directory system):
4036 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
4037 and download the descriptors listed in them.
4038 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
4039 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
4040 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
4042 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4043 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
4044 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
4045 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
4048 o Major bugfixes (performance):
4049 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
4050 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
4051 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
4052 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
4054 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
4055 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
4056 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
4057 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
4058 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
4059 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4061 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
4062 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
4064 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
4065 certificate is requested.
4066 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
4067 certificate requests.
4069 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
4070 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
4071 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
4072 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
4075 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4076 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
4077 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
4078 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4080 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
4081 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
4083 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
4084 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
4085 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4086 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
4087 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
4088 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
4089 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
4090 downloads more sensible.
4091 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
4092 another when serving certificates.
4094 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4095 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
4096 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
4097 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
4099 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
4100 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4101 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
4103 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
4104 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4106 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4107 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
4108 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
4109 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
4110 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4112 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4113 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
4114 WARN-severity events.
4115 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
4116 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
4117 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
4119 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
4120 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
4121 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
4123 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
4124 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
4125 circuit cannibalization).
4127 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4128 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
4129 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
4130 new module, networkstatus.c.
4131 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
4132 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
4133 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
4134 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
4135 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
4136 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
4137 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
4138 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
4139 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
4141 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
4143 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
4144 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4147 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
4148 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
4149 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
4150 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
4152 o New directory authorities:
4153 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
4154 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
4156 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4157 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
4158 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4160 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4161 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
4162 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
4163 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
4164 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4165 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
4166 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
4167 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
4168 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
4169 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
4170 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4172 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4173 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
4174 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
4175 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
4176 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
4177 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
4178 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
4179 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
4180 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
4182 o Minor features (security):
4183 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
4184 address maps to an internal address space.
4185 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
4186 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
4188 o Minor features (guard nodes):
4189 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
4190 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
4191 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
4192 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
4194 o Minor features (speed):
4195 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
4196 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
4197 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
4198 on big-endian hosts.)
4200 o Minor features (controller):
4201 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
4202 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
4203 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
4204 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
4208 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
4209 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
4210 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
4211 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
4212 implementation of proposal 104.
4213 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
4214 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
4215 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
4216 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
4217 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
4218 patch from Karsten Loesing.
4219 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
4220 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
4223 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
4224 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
4225 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4226 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
4227 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4228 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
4229 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4230 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
4231 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
4232 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4233 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
4234 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
4235 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
4236 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4237 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
4238 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
4239 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
4240 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4241 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
4242 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
4244 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4245 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
4246 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
4248 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
4249 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
4250 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
4251 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
4254 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
4255 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
4256 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
4257 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
4258 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
4261 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
4262 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
4265 o Major bugfixes (security):
4266 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
4267 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
4268 become more of a headache than it's worth.
4270 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
4271 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
4272 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
4274 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
4275 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
4276 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
4277 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
4278 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
4279 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
4281 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
4282 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
4283 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
4284 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
4285 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
4287 o Minor features (controller):
4288 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
4289 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
4290 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
4291 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4294 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
4295 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
4296 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
4297 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
4298 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
4299 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
4300 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
4302 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4303 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
4304 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
4305 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
4306 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
4307 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
4308 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
4309 if we ran off the end of the list.
4310 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
4311 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
4312 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
4313 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
4314 every time we change any piece of our config.
4315 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
4316 encourage people using them to stop.
4317 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
4319 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
4320 servers to choose a circuit.
4321 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
4322 unparseable piece of it.
4325 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
4326 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
4327 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
4328 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
4331 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
4332 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
4333 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
4334 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
4335 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
4337 o New directory authorities:
4338 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
4341 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
4342 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
4343 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
4344 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
4346 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
4347 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
4348 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
4350 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
4351 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
4352 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
4353 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
4354 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
4355 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
4357 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
4358 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
4359 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4362 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
4363 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
4364 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
4365 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
4369 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
4370 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
4371 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
4372 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
4374 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
4375 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
4377 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
4378 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
4379 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
4380 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
4381 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
4382 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
4383 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4384 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
4385 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4386 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
4389 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
4390 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
4391 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
4392 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
4393 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
4394 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
4397 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
4398 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
4399 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
4400 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
4403 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
4404 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
4405 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
4406 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
4407 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
4410 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
4411 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
4412 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
4413 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
4414 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
4417 o Minor features (directory servers):
4418 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
4419 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
4421 o Minor features (directory voting):
4422 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
4425 o Minor features (security):
4426 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
4427 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
4428 encourage people using them to stop.
4430 o Minor features (controller):
4431 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
4432 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
4433 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
4434 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
4435 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
4436 cookie authentication file, and config option
4437 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
4439 o Minor features (unit testing):
4440 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
4441 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
4442 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
4443 logging for the unit tests.
4445 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
4446 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
4447 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
4448 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
4449 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
4450 every time we change any piece of our config.
4451 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
4452 the future. Fixes bug 434.
4453 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
4455 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
4456 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
4457 the onion key from getting rotated.
4458 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
4459 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
4460 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
4463 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
4464 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
4465 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
4467 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
4468 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
4469 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
4470 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
4473 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
4474 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
4475 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
4476 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
4477 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
4478 TorK, etc. Or worse.
4480 o Major security fixes:
4481 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
4482 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
4485 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
4486 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
4487 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
4488 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
4490 o Major security fixes:
4491 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
4492 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
4494 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
4495 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
4498 o Minor features (performance):
4499 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
4500 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
4501 performance-intensive.
4502 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
4503 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
4504 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
4505 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
4506 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
4507 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
4511 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
4512 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
4513 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
4514 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
4518 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
4519 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
4520 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
4521 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
4522 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
4524 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
4525 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
4526 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
4527 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
4529 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
4530 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
4531 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
4532 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
4533 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
4535 o Major features (experimental):
4536 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
4537 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
4538 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
4539 handling before it's ready for use.
4542 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
4543 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
4544 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
4545 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
4546 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
4547 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
4549 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
4550 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
4551 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
4552 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
4553 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
4555 o Major bugfixes (directory):
4556 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
4557 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
4559 o Minor features (controller):
4560 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
4561 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
4562 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
4564 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
4566 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
4567 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
4569 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
4570 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
4571 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
4572 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
4573 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
4574 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
4575 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
4578 o Minor features (misc):
4579 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
4581 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
4582 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
4583 the authority identity key.
4584 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
4586 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
4587 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
4588 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
4591 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
4592 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
4593 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
4594 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
4595 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
4596 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
4597 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
4598 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
4600 o Performance improvements:
4601 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
4603 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
4604 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
4607 o Deprecated and removed features:
4608 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
4609 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
4610 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
4611 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
4613 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4614 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
4615 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
4616 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
4617 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
4618 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
4619 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
4620 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
4621 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
4624 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
4625 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
4626 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
4627 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
4628 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
4630 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
4631 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
4634 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4635 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
4636 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
4637 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
4638 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
4639 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
4640 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
4641 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
4642 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
4645 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
4646 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
4647 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
4648 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
4650 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
4651 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
4653 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4654 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
4655 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
4656 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
4657 routerlist while inserting a new router.
4658 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
4659 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
4661 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
4662 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
4663 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
4665 o Major bugfixes (security):
4666 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
4668 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
4669 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
4670 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
4671 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
4672 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
4673 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
4674 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
4675 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
4676 guard list unless we need to.
4678 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
4679 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
4680 don't get overused as guards.
4682 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4683 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
4684 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
4685 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
4686 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
4688 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4689 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
4690 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
4693 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4694 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
4695 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
4696 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
4697 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
4698 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
4699 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
4700 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
4703 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
4704 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
4705 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
4706 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
4708 o Minor features (directory):
4709 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
4710 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
4711 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
4712 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
4714 o Minor build issues:
4715 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
4716 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
4717 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
4718 in the tarball, not as "x".
4721 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
4722 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
4723 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
4724 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
4725 forward on a lot of fronts.
4727 o Major features, server usability:
4728 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
4729 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
4730 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
4731 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
4733 o Major features, client usability:
4734 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
4735 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
4736 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
4737 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
4738 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
4739 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
4740 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
4741 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
4743 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
4744 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
4745 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
4746 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
4747 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
4748 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
4750 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
4751 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
4752 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
4754 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
4755 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
4756 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
4757 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
4758 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
4760 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
4761 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
4762 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
4763 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
4765 o Major features, other:
4766 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
4767 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
4768 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
4769 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
4770 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
4773 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
4774 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
4775 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
4778 o Minor fixes (resource management):
4779 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
4780 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
4781 our allocated connection limit.
4782 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
4783 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
4784 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
4785 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
4786 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
4788 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
4789 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
4790 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
4792 o Minor features (build):
4793 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
4794 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
4795 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
4796 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
4798 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
4799 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
4800 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
4801 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
4802 Use this version consistently in log messages.
4804 o Minor features (logging):
4805 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
4806 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
4807 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
4808 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
4809 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
4812 o Minor features (directory system):
4813 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
4814 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
4815 not to serve V2 directory information.
4816 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
4817 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
4818 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
4820 o Minor features (controller):
4821 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
4822 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
4824 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
4825 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
4826 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
4827 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
4828 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
4829 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
4831 o Minor features (hidden services):
4832 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
4833 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
4834 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
4835 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
4837 o Minor features (other):
4839 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
4840 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
4841 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
4842 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
4843 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
4844 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
4845 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
4846 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
4847 longer a completely silly thing to do.
4848 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
4849 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
4850 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
4851 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
4854 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
4855 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
4856 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
4857 back an error and close the connection.
4858 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
4859 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
4862 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4863 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
4864 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
4865 makes the log messages nicer.
4866 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
4867 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
4868 partial results on small file reads.
4870 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4871 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
4872 more often than they are allowed to appear.
4873 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
4874 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
4876 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4877 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
4878 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
4879 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
4881 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4882 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
4883 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
4884 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
4885 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
4886 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
4887 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
4888 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
4889 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
4890 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
4891 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
4893 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
4894 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
4895 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
4897 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
4898 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
4899 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
4900 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
4902 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4903 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
4904 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
4906 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
4907 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
4910 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4911 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
4912 implicit in other procedure arguments.
4913 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
4914 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
4915 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
4916 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
4917 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
4918 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
4919 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
4920 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
4921 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
4924 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
4925 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
4926 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
4927 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
4929 o Directory authority changes:
4930 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
4931 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
4932 or use hidden services.
4934 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4935 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
4936 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
4937 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
4938 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
4939 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
4940 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
4941 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
4942 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
4945 o Major bugfixes (security):
4946 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
4947 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
4948 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
4950 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
4951 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
4952 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
4953 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
4954 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
4955 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
4956 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
4957 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
4958 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
4959 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
4962 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
4964 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
4965 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
4967 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
4968 having a hard time downloading.
4969 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
4970 partial results on small file reads.
4971 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
4972 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
4973 the gaps in the store get very large.
4976 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
4977 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
4979 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
4980 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
4983 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
4984 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
4985 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
4986 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
4987 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
4988 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
4990 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
4991 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
4992 free speech on the Internet.
4995 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
4996 get one we don't recognize.
4997 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
4998 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
5001 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
5003 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
5004 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
5005 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
5006 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
5009 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
5010 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
5013 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
5014 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
5015 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
5016 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
5017 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
5018 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
5022 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
5023 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
5024 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
5025 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
5026 on Win98 and friends again.
5028 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5029 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
5030 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
5033 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
5034 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
5035 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
5036 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
5037 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
5038 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
5039 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
5040 and maybe also bug 397.)
5042 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5043 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
5044 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
5046 o Minor bugfixes (server):
5047 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
5050 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5051 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
5052 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
5053 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
5054 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
5056 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5057 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
5058 load on authorities.
5060 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5061 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
5062 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
5063 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
5065 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
5067 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
5068 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
5069 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
5070 the last of bug 326.)
5071 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
5072 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
5076 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
5077 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5078 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
5079 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
5080 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
5081 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
5082 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
5084 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
5085 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
5087 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5088 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
5089 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
5091 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
5092 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
5093 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
5095 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5096 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
5097 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
5098 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
5100 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
5101 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
5103 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
5104 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
5105 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
5108 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5109 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
5110 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
5111 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
5112 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
5113 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
5114 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
5115 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
5116 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
5117 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
5118 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
5119 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
5120 other than file-not-found.
5121 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
5122 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
5123 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
5124 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
5125 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
5126 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
5127 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
5128 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
5129 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
5130 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
5131 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
5132 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
5133 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
5134 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
5135 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
5137 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
5139 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
5140 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
5142 o Minor features (controller):
5143 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
5144 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
5145 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
5147 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
5148 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
5149 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
5150 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
5151 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
5152 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
5153 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
5154 connected or resolved cell.
5156 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5157 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
5158 some profiles, but not others.)
5159 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
5160 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
5161 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
5164 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
5166 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
5167 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
5168 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
5169 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
5170 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
5171 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
5172 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
5173 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
5174 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
5175 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
5176 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
5177 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
5178 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
5179 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
5180 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
5182 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
5185 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
5186 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
5187 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
5188 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
5189 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
5190 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
5191 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
5193 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
5194 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
5195 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
5196 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
5197 buckets go absurdly negative.
5198 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
5199 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
5202 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
5203 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
5204 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
5205 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
5206 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
5207 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
5208 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
5209 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
5212 o Major bugfixes (other):
5213 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
5214 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
5215 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
5216 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
5218 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
5220 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
5221 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
5223 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
5224 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
5225 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
5226 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
5227 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
5230 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
5231 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
5232 possible memory-stomping bugs.
5233 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
5234 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
5236 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
5237 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
5238 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
5239 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
5240 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
5241 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5244 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
5245 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
5246 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
5248 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
5249 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
5250 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
5251 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
5252 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
5253 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
5254 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
5255 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
5256 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
5257 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
5258 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
5259 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
5260 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
5262 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
5263 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
5264 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
5265 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
5266 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
5267 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
5268 to the resulting address.
5271 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
5272 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
5273 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
5274 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
5277 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
5278 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
5280 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
5281 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
5282 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
5283 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
5284 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
5285 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
5286 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
5287 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
5288 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
5289 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
5290 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
5291 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
5292 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
5293 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
5294 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
5295 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
5296 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
5299 o Minor features (controller):
5300 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
5301 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
5302 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
5303 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
5304 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
5305 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
5306 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
5310 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
5312 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
5313 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
5314 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
5315 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
5316 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
5317 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
5320 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
5321 weren't planning to resolve.
5322 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
5323 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
5324 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
5325 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
5326 the controller from learning about current events.
5328 o Minor features (more controller status events):
5329 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
5330 learn when our address changes.
5331 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
5332 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
5333 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
5334 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
5336 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
5337 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
5338 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
5339 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
5340 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
5341 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
5342 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
5343 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
5344 are accepted by a directory.
5345 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
5346 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
5347 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
5348 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
5349 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
5351 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
5352 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
5353 about changes to DNS server status.
5355 o Minor features (directory):
5356 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
5357 too much load to the exit nodes.
5360 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
5362 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
5363 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
5364 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
5365 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
5366 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
5368 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
5369 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
5370 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
5372 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
5373 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
5374 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
5375 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
5376 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
5377 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
5378 config options if you like.
5380 o Minor features (config and docs):
5381 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
5382 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
5383 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
5384 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
5385 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
5387 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
5388 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
5389 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
5390 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
5391 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
5393 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
5394 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
5395 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
5396 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
5397 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
5398 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
5399 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
5400 documentation: "make check-docs".
5401 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
5402 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
5404 o Minor features (DNS):
5405 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
5406 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
5407 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
5408 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
5409 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
5410 our tests for DNS hijacking.
5412 o Minor features (directory):
5413 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
5414 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
5415 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
5416 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
5417 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
5418 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
5419 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
5420 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
5421 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
5422 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
5423 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
5424 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
5425 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
5426 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
5427 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
5428 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
5429 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
5430 for the thing we're trying to download.
5431 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
5432 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
5433 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
5435 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
5436 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
5437 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
5440 o Minor features (controller):
5441 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
5442 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
5444 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
5445 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
5446 entry guard status as it changes.
5448 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
5449 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
5450 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
5451 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
5453 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
5454 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
5455 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
5456 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
5459 o Major bugfixes (security):
5460 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
5461 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
5462 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
5463 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
5465 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
5466 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
5467 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
5468 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
5469 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
5471 o Major bugfixes (other):
5472 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
5473 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
5474 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
5475 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
5477 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
5478 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
5479 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
5480 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
5481 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
5482 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
5486 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
5487 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
5488 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
5489 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
5490 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
5492 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
5493 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
5495 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
5496 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
5497 family lists conveniently.
5498 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
5499 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
5500 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
5502 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
5503 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
5505 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
5506 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
5507 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
5508 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
5509 if their identity keys are as expected.
5510 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
5511 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
5512 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
5514 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5515 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
5516 reported by Mike Perry.
5517 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
5518 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
5519 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
5520 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
5523 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
5524 o Security bugfixes:
5525 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
5526 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
5527 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
5528 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
5532 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
5533 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
5534 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
5537 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
5539 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
5540 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
5541 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
5544 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
5545 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
5546 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
5547 watching for STREAM events.
5548 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
5549 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
5550 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
5551 operations, for profiling.
5554 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
5555 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
5556 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
5557 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
5558 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
5559 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
5561 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
5565 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
5566 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
5567 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
5568 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
5569 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
5571 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
5572 correctly in the Windows installer.
5573 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
5574 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
5575 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
5577 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
5578 when we're running as a client.
5581 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
5583 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
5584 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
5585 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
5586 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
5587 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
5588 its circuits on demand.
5589 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
5590 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
5591 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
5592 connections more stable on average.
5593 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
5594 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
5595 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
5597 o Security bugfixes:
5598 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
5599 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
5602 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
5604 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
5605 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
5606 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
5607 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
5608 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
5609 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
5610 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
5611 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
5614 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
5616 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
5617 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
5618 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
5619 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
5620 routers for even longer.
5621 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
5622 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
5623 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
5624 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
5625 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
5626 caching HTTP proxies.
5627 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
5630 o Minor features, controller:
5631 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
5632 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
5633 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
5634 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
5636 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
5637 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
5638 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
5639 working much like those for circuit events.
5640 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
5641 about the current status of a router.
5642 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
5643 a router's status has changed.
5644 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
5645 can tell which events and features are supported.
5646 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
5647 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
5649 o Security bugfixes:
5650 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
5651 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
5654 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
5655 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
5656 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
5657 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
5658 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
5659 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
5660 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
5661 long nicknames where appropriate.
5662 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
5663 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
5664 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
5665 chews through many circuits before giving up.
5666 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
5667 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
5668 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
5669 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
5670 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
5671 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
5673 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
5674 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
5675 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
5677 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
5678 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
5679 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
5680 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
5681 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
5682 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
5683 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
5684 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
5685 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
5686 (reported by fookoowa).
5687 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
5688 and reported by some Centos users.
5689 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
5690 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
5691 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
5692 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
5693 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
5694 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
5695 before we check for libevent.
5698 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
5700 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
5701 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
5702 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
5703 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
5704 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
5705 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
5706 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
5707 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
5708 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
5709 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
5710 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
5711 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
5712 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
5713 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
5714 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
5715 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
5716 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
5717 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
5718 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
5719 lets you turn it off.
5720 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
5721 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
5722 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
5723 us into the directory more quickly.
5725 o New/improved config options:
5726 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
5727 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
5728 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
5729 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
5730 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
5731 all the machines on the same subnet.
5732 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
5733 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
5734 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
5735 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
5736 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
5737 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
5738 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
5739 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
5740 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
5741 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
5743 o Minor features, controller:
5744 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
5745 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
5746 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
5747 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
5748 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
5749 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
5750 for more information.
5751 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
5752 best guess to the user.
5753 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
5754 descriptor has changed.
5755 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
5757 o Minor features, other:
5758 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
5759 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
5760 useful to the network.
5761 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
5762 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
5763 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
5764 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
5765 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
5766 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
5767 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
5768 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
5769 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
5770 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
5771 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
5772 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
5773 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
5774 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
5775 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
5777 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
5778 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
5779 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
5780 could return an unnamed server instead.
5781 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
5782 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
5783 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
5784 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
5785 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
5786 a more attractive target for compromise.)
5787 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
5788 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
5789 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
5791 o Major bugfixes, other:
5792 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
5793 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
5794 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
5795 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
5796 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
5797 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
5798 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
5799 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
5800 its circuits on demand.
5801 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
5802 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
5803 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
5804 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
5806 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
5807 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
5808 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
5810 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
5812 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
5813 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
5814 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
5815 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
5816 "extendcircuit" request.
5817 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
5818 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
5819 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
5821 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
5822 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
5823 instead of "X resolved to X".
5824 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
5825 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
5826 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
5827 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
5828 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
5829 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
5830 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
5831 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
5832 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
5834 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
5835 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
5836 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
5837 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
5838 result more than once.
5839 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
5840 non-versioning dirservers.
5841 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
5842 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
5844 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
5845 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
5846 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
5847 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
5848 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
5849 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
5850 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
5851 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
5852 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
5854 o Packaging, features:
5855 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
5856 now universal binaries.
5857 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
5858 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
5859 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
5861 o Packaging, bugfixes:
5862 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
5863 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
5864 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
5865 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
5867 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
5868 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
5869 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
5872 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
5873 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
5874 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
5878 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
5880 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
5881 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
5882 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
5883 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
5884 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
5885 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
5886 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
5887 it can't resolve its hostname.
5890 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
5891 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
5892 "extendcircuit" request.
5893 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
5894 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
5895 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
5896 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
5898 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
5899 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
5900 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
5902 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
5903 methods: these are known to be buggy.
5904 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
5905 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
5909 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
5911 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
5912 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
5913 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
5914 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
5915 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
5916 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
5917 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
5918 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
5919 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
5920 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
5921 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
5922 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
5923 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
5924 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
5925 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
5926 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
5927 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
5928 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
5929 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
5930 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
5931 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
5932 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
5933 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
5934 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
5937 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
5938 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
5939 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
5940 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
5941 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
5942 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
5943 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
5944 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
5945 recommendation system saner.)
5946 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
5948 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
5949 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
5950 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
5951 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
5952 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
5953 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
5954 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
5955 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
5956 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
5957 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
5958 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
5959 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
5961 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
5962 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
5963 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
5964 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
5965 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
5966 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
5967 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
5968 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
5969 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
5970 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
5971 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
5972 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
5974 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
5975 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
5976 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
5977 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
5978 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
5979 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
5982 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
5983 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
5984 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
5985 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
5986 our DirPort now, etc.
5987 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
5988 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
5989 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
5990 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
5991 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
5992 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
5993 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
5995 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
5996 whether the config options are bad or good.
5997 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
5998 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
5999 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
6000 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
6001 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
6002 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
6003 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
6004 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
6007 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
6008 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
6009 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
6010 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
6011 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
6012 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
6013 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
6014 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
6015 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
6016 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
6017 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
6018 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
6019 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
6020 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
6021 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
6022 of it), is not therefore "up".
6023 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
6024 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
6025 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
6026 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
6027 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
6028 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
6031 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
6033 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
6034 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
6035 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
6036 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
6037 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
6038 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
6039 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
6040 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
6041 test reachability, so you won't publish.
6044 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
6045 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
6046 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
6047 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
6048 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
6050 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
6051 own server descriptor yet.
6054 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
6056 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
6057 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
6058 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
6059 make sure to test via one of these.
6060 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
6061 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
6062 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
6063 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
6064 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
6066 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
6067 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
6068 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
6071 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
6072 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
6073 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
6074 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
6075 directory authority.
6076 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
6077 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
6078 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
6079 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
6082 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
6083 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
6084 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
6086 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
6087 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
6088 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
6089 current guards when picking a new guard.
6090 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
6091 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
6092 when we had more than one pending.
6093 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
6094 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
6095 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
6096 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
6097 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
6098 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
6099 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
6100 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
6101 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
6102 debug the reachability problems better.
6104 o Log / documentation fixes:
6105 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
6106 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
6107 about protocol violations by others.
6108 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
6109 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
6110 about what happened to our old torrc.
6113 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
6115 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
6117 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
6118 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
6119 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
6120 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
6123 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
6125 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
6126 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
6127 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
6128 old ORPort and receive connections.
6129 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
6131 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
6132 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
6133 and network-statuses.
6134 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
6135 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
6136 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
6137 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
6139 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
6142 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
6143 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
6144 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
6147 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
6149 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
6150 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
6151 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
6152 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
6153 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
6156 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
6157 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
6159 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
6160 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
6161 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
6162 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
6163 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
6164 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
6165 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
6166 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
6167 rather than not sending anything back at all.
6168 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
6169 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
6170 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
6171 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
6172 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
6173 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
6174 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
6175 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
6176 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
6177 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
6178 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
6179 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
6180 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
6181 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
6182 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
6183 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
6184 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
6185 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
6186 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
6187 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
6188 default ulimit -n is 1024.
6191 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
6192 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
6193 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
6194 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
6197 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
6199 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
6200 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
6201 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
6202 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
6203 entry guards running these flawed versions.
6204 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
6205 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
6206 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
6207 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
6208 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
6211 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
6212 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
6214 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
6215 and it is confusing some users.
6216 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
6217 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
6218 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
6219 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
6220 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
6223 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
6225 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
6226 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
6227 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
6228 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
6229 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
6230 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
6231 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
6232 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
6233 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
6234 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
6235 dirport is set for now.
6237 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
6238 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
6239 unattached before we fail it?
6240 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
6241 at least this many seconds ago.
6242 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
6243 at least this many seconds ago.
6246 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
6247 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
6248 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
6249 or resolve-wait stream.
6250 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
6251 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
6252 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
6253 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
6254 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
6255 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
6256 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
6257 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
6259 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
6260 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
6261 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
6262 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
6263 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
6264 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
6265 given as hex digests.
6266 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
6267 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
6268 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
6269 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
6270 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
6271 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
6272 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
6273 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
6276 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6277 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
6278 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
6279 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
6280 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
6281 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
6282 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
6283 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
6284 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
6285 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
6286 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
6289 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
6290 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
6291 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
6292 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
6293 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
6294 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
6295 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
6298 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
6299 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
6300 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
6301 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
6302 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
6303 misreading their logs.
6304 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
6305 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
6306 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
6307 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
6308 valid router descriptors.
6309 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
6310 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
6311 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
6312 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
6313 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
6314 silently resetting it to its default.
6315 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
6317 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
6320 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
6322 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
6323 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
6324 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
6325 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
6326 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
6328 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
6329 because older Tors do not understand it.
6330 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
6334 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
6335 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6336 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
6337 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
6338 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
6339 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
6340 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
6341 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
6342 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
6343 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
6344 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
6346 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
6347 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
6348 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
6349 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
6351 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
6352 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
6355 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
6356 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
6357 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
6358 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
6359 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
6360 without getting overloaded.
6361 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
6363 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
6364 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
6365 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
6366 be forward-compatible.
6367 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
6368 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
6369 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
6370 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
6372 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
6373 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
6374 and OR conns to port 443.
6375 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
6376 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
6378 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
6379 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
6380 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
6381 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
6382 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
6383 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
6384 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
6387 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
6388 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6389 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
6390 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
6392 o Other important bugfixes:
6393 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
6394 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
6395 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
6396 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
6398 o Backported features:
6399 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
6400 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
6401 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
6402 without getting overloaded.
6403 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
6404 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
6405 503's whenever they feel busy.
6406 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
6407 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
6408 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
6409 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
6410 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
6413 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
6414 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
6415 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
6416 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
6417 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
6418 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
6419 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
6420 know if the crashes continue.
6421 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
6422 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
6423 seg faults in at least some cases.)
6424 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
6425 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
6426 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
6429 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
6430 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
6431 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
6432 try to be a bit more fair.
6433 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
6434 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
6435 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
6436 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
6437 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
6438 bug that let it go negative.
6439 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
6440 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
6441 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
6442 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
6443 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
6444 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
6445 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
6446 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
6447 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
6448 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
6449 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
6452 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
6454 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
6455 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
6456 service descriptors.
6459 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
6460 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
6461 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
6462 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
6464 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
6465 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
6466 versions *are* still recommended.
6467 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
6468 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
6469 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
6470 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
6471 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
6472 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
6473 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
6474 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
6476 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
6477 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
6478 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
6479 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
6480 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
6481 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
6482 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
6483 on it. Not used by clients yet.
6484 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
6485 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
6486 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
6487 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
6488 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
6489 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
6490 established a circuit.
6491 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
6492 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
6493 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
6494 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
6497 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
6498 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6499 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
6500 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
6501 quickly enough. Oops.
6502 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
6504 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6505 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
6508 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
6509 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
6510 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
6511 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
6512 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
6513 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
6514 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
6515 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
6516 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
6517 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
6518 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
6519 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
6520 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
6521 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
6522 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
6523 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
6524 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
6527 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
6528 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
6529 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
6530 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
6531 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
6532 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
6533 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
6534 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
6535 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
6536 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
6537 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
6538 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
6539 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
6540 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
6541 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
6542 connections more reliable.
6545 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
6546 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
6547 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
6548 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
6549 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
6550 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
6551 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
6552 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
6553 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
6554 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
6555 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
6556 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
6557 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
6558 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
6562 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
6563 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
6564 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
6565 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
6566 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
6567 need to be uint64_t's.
6568 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
6569 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
6570 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
6572 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
6574 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
6575 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
6576 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
6577 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
6578 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
6579 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
6580 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
6582 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
6583 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
6584 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
6585 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
6586 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
6587 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
6588 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
6589 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
6590 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
6591 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
6592 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
6593 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
6594 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
6597 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
6598 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
6599 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
6600 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
6601 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
6602 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
6603 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
6605 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
6606 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
6607 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
6608 can answer v2 directory requests too.
6609 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
6610 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
6611 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
6612 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
6614 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
6615 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
6616 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
6617 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
6618 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
6619 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
6620 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
6621 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
6622 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
6623 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
6624 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
6625 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
6626 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
6627 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
6628 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
6630 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
6631 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
6634 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
6635 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6636 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
6637 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
6638 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
6639 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
6640 too -- so detect and avoid this.
6641 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
6643 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
6644 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
6645 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
6646 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
6647 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
6648 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
6649 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
6650 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
6651 rendezvous circuits.
6652 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
6654 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6655 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
6656 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
6657 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
6658 advertising it because of hibernation.
6659 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
6660 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
6661 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
6662 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
6663 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
6664 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
6665 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
6666 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
6667 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
6668 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
6669 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
6670 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
6671 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
6672 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
6675 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
6676 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6677 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
6678 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
6679 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
6680 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
6681 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
6682 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
6683 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
6684 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
6685 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
6686 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
6687 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
6688 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
6689 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
6690 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
6691 connections once a week.
6692 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
6693 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
6694 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
6695 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
6696 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
6697 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
6699 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
6700 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
6701 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
6703 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6704 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
6705 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
6706 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
6707 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
6708 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
6709 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
6710 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
6711 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
6712 firewall options forbid.
6713 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
6714 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
6715 can only proxy to certain destinations.
6716 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
6717 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
6718 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
6719 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
6720 aids some statistical attacks.
6721 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
6722 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
6723 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
6724 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
6726 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6727 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
6728 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
6729 server descriptor sometimes.
6730 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
6731 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
6732 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
6733 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
6734 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
6735 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
6736 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
6737 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
6739 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
6740 case the controller wants to change that too.
6741 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
6742 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
6743 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
6744 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
6746 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
6747 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
6748 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
6750 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
6751 descriptors that they know they will reject.
6753 o Features and updates:
6754 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
6755 significantly faster.
6756 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
6757 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
6758 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
6759 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
6760 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
6761 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
6762 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
6763 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
6764 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
6765 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
6766 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
6767 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
6768 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
6769 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
6770 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
6771 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
6772 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
6773 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
6774 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
6775 as authoritative dirserver.
6776 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
6777 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
6778 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
6781 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
6782 o Usability improvements:
6783 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
6784 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
6786 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
6787 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
6788 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
6790 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
6791 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
6792 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
6793 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
6794 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
6795 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
6796 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
6797 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
6798 memory leaks better.
6799 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
6800 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
6801 their operators to pay close attention.
6802 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
6803 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
6805 o Performance improvements:
6806 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
6807 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
6808 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
6809 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
6810 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
6811 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
6812 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
6813 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
6814 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
6815 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
6816 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
6817 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
6818 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
6819 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
6820 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
6821 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
6822 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
6824 o Security improvements:
6825 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
6826 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
6827 fingerprint of server.
6828 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
6829 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
6830 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
6832 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6833 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
6834 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
6835 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
6836 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
6837 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
6838 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
6839 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
6840 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
6841 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
6842 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
6843 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
6844 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
6845 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
6846 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
6847 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
6848 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
6849 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
6850 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
6851 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
6852 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
6854 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
6855 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
6856 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
6858 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
6859 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
6861 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
6862 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
6863 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
6864 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
6865 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
6866 of the controller protocol.
6867 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
6868 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
6869 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
6872 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
6873 o New features (major):
6874 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
6875 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
6876 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
6877 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
6878 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
6879 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
6880 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
6881 we're using a default DirPort.
6882 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
6884 o New features (minor):
6885 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
6886 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
6887 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
6888 mirrors still cache and serve it).
6889 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
6890 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
6891 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
6892 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
6893 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
6894 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
6895 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
6896 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
6897 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
6898 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
6899 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
6900 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
6901 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
6902 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
6903 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
6905 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
6906 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
6907 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
6908 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
6909 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
6910 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
6911 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
6912 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
6914 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
6915 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
6916 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
6917 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
6918 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
6919 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
6920 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
6921 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
6922 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
6923 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
6925 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
6926 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
6927 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
6928 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
6929 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
6932 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
6933 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
6935 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
6936 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
6938 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
6939 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
6940 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
6941 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
6942 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
6943 don't warn twice about the same name.
6944 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
6945 if we've not heard of the server.
6946 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
6947 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
6950 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
6951 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6952 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
6953 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
6954 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
6955 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
6956 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
6957 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
6958 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
6959 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
6960 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
6961 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
6962 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
6963 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
6964 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
6967 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
6968 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
6969 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
6970 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
6971 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
6973 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
6974 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
6975 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
6976 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
6977 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
6978 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
6982 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
6983 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
6984 nickname) is reachable by you.
6985 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
6989 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
6990 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
6991 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
6992 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
6993 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
6994 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
6995 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
6996 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
6997 we fail to connect).
6998 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
6999 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
7000 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
7001 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
7003 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
7004 it was self-testing that told us so.
7007 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
7008 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
7009 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
7010 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
7011 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
7012 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
7013 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
7014 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
7015 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
7016 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
7017 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
7018 exit policy using him for any exits.
7019 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
7022 o New controller features/fixes:
7023 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
7024 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
7025 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
7026 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
7027 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
7028 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
7029 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
7030 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
7031 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
7033 o Start on the new directory design:
7034 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
7035 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
7037 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
7038 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
7039 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
7040 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
7042 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
7043 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
7044 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
7045 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
7046 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
7047 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
7048 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
7049 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
7052 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
7053 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
7054 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
7055 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
7056 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
7057 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
7058 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
7059 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
7060 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
7061 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
7063 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
7064 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
7065 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
7066 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
7067 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
7068 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
7069 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
7070 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
7071 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
7073 o Config option changes:
7074 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
7075 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
7076 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
7077 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
7078 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
7079 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
7082 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
7083 people have started using them for spam too.
7084 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
7085 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
7086 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
7087 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
7088 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
7089 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
7090 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
7091 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
7092 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
7093 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
7094 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
7095 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
7096 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
7097 services faster on the service end.
7098 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
7099 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
7100 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
7101 it a fair shake next time we try.
7102 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
7103 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
7104 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
7105 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
7106 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
7107 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
7108 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
7109 able to discover them.
7110 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
7111 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
7112 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
7113 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
7114 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
7115 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
7116 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
7117 testing for reachability.
7118 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
7119 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
7121 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
7123 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
7124 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
7127 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
7128 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
7130 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7131 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
7132 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
7133 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
7136 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
7137 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7138 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
7140 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
7141 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
7144 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
7145 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
7148 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
7149 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
7150 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
7151 options, getinfo keys.
7154 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
7155 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7156 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
7157 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
7158 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
7159 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
7160 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
7162 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
7163 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
7167 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
7168 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
7169 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
7171 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
7173 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
7174 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
7175 circuit events and we go offline.
7176 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
7177 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
7178 you don't have enough intro points already.
7180 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
7181 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
7182 many bytes we've used in this time period.
7183 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
7184 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
7185 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
7186 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
7187 enabled by default yet.
7189 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
7190 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
7191 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
7192 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
7193 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
7196 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
7197 o New directory servers:
7198 - tor26 has changed IP address.
7200 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7201 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
7202 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
7204 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
7205 claims its dirport is 0.
7206 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
7207 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
7211 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
7212 o New directory servers:
7213 - tor26 has changed IP address.
7215 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
7216 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
7218 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
7219 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
7220 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
7221 ports that have changed.
7222 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
7224 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
7225 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
7226 Windows-style errno back.
7227 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
7229 want to make it an NT service.
7230 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
7231 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
7232 name, give the full name in our response.
7233 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
7234 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
7235 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
7236 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
7239 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
7240 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
7244 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
7245 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
7246 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
7247 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
7248 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
7251 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
7252 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7253 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
7254 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
7255 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
7256 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
7257 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
7258 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
7261 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
7263 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
7264 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
7265 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
7266 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
7267 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
7268 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
7270 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
7271 temporarily unreachable.
7272 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
7276 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
7277 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
7278 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
7280 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
7284 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
7285 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
7286 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
7287 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
7288 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
7292 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
7293 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
7294 libevent before 1.1a.
7297 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
7299 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
7300 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
7301 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
7302 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
7303 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
7305 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
7306 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
7307 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
7308 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
7309 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
7310 of CPU time plus memory.
7311 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
7312 normal web requests.
7313 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
7314 tor_lookup_hostname().
7315 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
7316 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
7317 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
7318 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
7319 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
7320 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
7322 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
7323 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
7324 HttpProxyAuthenticator
7325 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
7326 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
7327 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
7329 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
7330 the user asks you to.
7331 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
7332 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
7333 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
7334 their descriptors are being rejected.
7335 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
7339 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
7341 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
7342 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
7343 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
7345 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
7347 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
7349 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
7350 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
7351 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
7352 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
7353 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
7354 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
7355 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
7356 keys) from the exit server's process.
7357 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
7358 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
7359 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
7360 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
7361 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
7362 point at your Tor server.
7363 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
7364 you're not sending a socks reply back.
7367 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
7368 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
7369 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
7370 to make it easier to write controllers.
7373 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
7375 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
7376 installing on Tiger.
7377 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
7378 complain during installation.
7379 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
7380 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
7381 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
7382 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
7383 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
7384 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
7386 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
7387 something more reasonable when first installing.
7388 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
7391 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
7393 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
7394 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
7396 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
7397 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
7398 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
7399 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
7400 when using the default exit policy.
7401 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
7402 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
7403 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
7404 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
7405 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
7406 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
7407 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
7408 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
7409 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
7410 we fetched a new directory.
7411 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
7412 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
7415 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
7416 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
7417 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
7418 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
7419 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
7420 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
7421 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
7422 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
7424 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
7425 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
7426 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
7427 save memory on systems that need to fork.
7428 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
7429 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
7430 is valid without actually launching Tor.
7431 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
7432 rather than just rejecting it.
7435 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
7437 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
7438 we didn't like its cert.
7440 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
7441 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
7442 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
7443 on patch from Adam Langley.
7444 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
7445 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
7446 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
7447 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
7449 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
7450 directory every time you regenerate it.
7451 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
7452 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
7455 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
7456 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7457 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7458 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
7459 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
7462 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
7464 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7465 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
7466 TLS errors better in other situations too.
7467 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
7468 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
7469 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
7470 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
7471 and don't log when you are.
7472 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
7473 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
7475 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
7476 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
7477 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
7478 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
7479 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
7482 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
7483 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
7484 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
7485 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
7486 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
7487 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
7488 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
7489 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
7490 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
7491 nickname+key are allowed.
7492 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
7493 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
7494 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
7495 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
7496 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
7497 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
7498 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
7499 have quite wrong clocks).
7500 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
7501 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
7502 - Efficiency improvements:
7503 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
7504 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
7505 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
7506 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
7507 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
7508 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
7509 lowercase and be done with it.
7510 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
7511 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
7512 to abandon partially built circuits.
7513 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
7514 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
7516 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
7518 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
7519 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
7520 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
7521 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
7523 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
7524 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
7526 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
7527 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
7528 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
7529 obeying the exit policy internally.
7530 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
7531 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
7533 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
7534 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
7535 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
7536 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
7538 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
7539 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
7540 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
7541 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
7542 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
7544 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
7545 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
7546 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
7547 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
7548 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
7549 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
7550 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
7551 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
7552 descriptors we just dropped.
7553 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
7554 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
7555 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
7556 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
7557 artificially capped at 500kB.
7560 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
7561 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7562 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
7563 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
7564 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
7565 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
7566 busy for more than 100 seconds.
7569 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
7570 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
7571 - Fixes on reachability detection:
7572 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
7573 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
7574 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
7575 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
7576 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
7577 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
7578 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
7579 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
7580 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
7581 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
7582 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
7583 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
7584 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
7585 server not already connected to them.
7586 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
7587 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
7588 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
7590 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
7592 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
7593 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
7594 are in a different state than they actually are.
7595 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
7596 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
7597 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
7599 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
7600 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
7601 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
7603 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
7604 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
7605 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
7606 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
7607 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
7608 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
7609 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
7611 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
7612 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
7613 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
7614 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
7617 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
7618 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7619 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
7620 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
7621 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
7622 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
7623 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
7624 creating actual system users.
7625 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
7626 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
7630 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
7632 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
7633 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
7634 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
7635 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
7636 hidden services better.
7637 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
7639 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
7640 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
7641 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
7642 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
7643 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
7644 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
7645 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
7646 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
7647 patch by Matt Edman).
7648 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
7649 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
7650 required exit node for certain sites.
7651 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
7652 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
7653 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
7654 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
7655 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
7656 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
7657 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
7658 rather than just "success" or "failure".
7659 - A more sane version numbering system. See
7660 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
7661 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
7662 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
7664 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
7665 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
7666 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
7667 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
7668 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
7669 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
7670 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
7672 o Robustness/stability fixes:
7673 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
7674 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
7675 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
7677 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
7678 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
7679 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
7681 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
7682 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
7683 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
7685 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
7686 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
7687 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
7688 that will want high uptime circuits.
7689 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
7690 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
7691 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
7692 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
7693 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
7694 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
7695 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
7696 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
7697 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
7698 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
7699 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
7700 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
7701 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
7702 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
7703 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
7704 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
7705 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
7706 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
7707 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
7708 when we try to launch one.
7709 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
7710 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
7711 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
7712 "ShutdownWaitLength".
7713 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
7714 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
7715 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
7716 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
7717 and to take errno into account where possible.
7720 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
7721 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
7722 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
7723 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
7724 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
7725 file more reasonable.
7726 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
7727 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
7728 addresses -- it won't.
7729 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
7730 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
7731 for google.com" problem.
7732 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
7733 so it's not just "unknown platform".
7734 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
7735 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
7736 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
7737 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
7739 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
7740 they could use instead.
7741 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
7742 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
7743 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
7744 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
7745 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
7746 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
7747 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
7748 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
7749 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
7751 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
7755 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
7756 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
7758 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
7759 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
7760 private-IP addresses.
7761 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
7762 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
7764 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
7765 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
7766 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
7767 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
7768 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
7769 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
7770 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
7772 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
7773 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
7774 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
7775 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
7776 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
7777 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
7778 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
7779 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
7781 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
7783 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
7784 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
7785 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
7786 whether the server is hibernating.
7789 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
7790 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
7791 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
7792 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
7793 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
7794 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
7795 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
7796 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
7797 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
7798 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
7799 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
7800 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
7801 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
7802 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
7803 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
7805 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
7806 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
7807 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
7808 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
7809 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
7810 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
7811 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
7812 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
7813 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
7814 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
7815 existing torrc files.
7816 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
7819 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
7820 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7821 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
7822 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
7823 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
7824 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
7825 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
7826 the win32 SYSTEM account.
7827 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
7828 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
7829 file descriptors available.
7830 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
7831 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
7832 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
7835 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
7836 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7837 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
7838 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
7840 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
7841 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
7842 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
7843 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
7844 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
7846 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
7847 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
7848 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
7849 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
7850 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
7851 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
7852 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
7853 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
7854 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
7855 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
7856 800kB/s of capacity.
7857 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
7860 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
7861 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7862 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
7863 need as much processor time.
7864 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
7865 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
7866 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
7867 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
7868 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
7869 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
7870 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
7871 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
7872 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
7873 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
7874 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
7875 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
7877 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
7878 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
7879 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
7880 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
7881 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
7882 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
7883 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
7886 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
7887 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
7888 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
7890 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
7891 style address, then we'd crash.
7892 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
7893 a dirserver is broken.
7894 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
7896 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
7897 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
7898 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
7900 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
7901 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
7902 name out of the warning/assert messages.
7903 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
7904 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
7905 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
7907 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
7908 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
7909 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
7911 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
7913 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
7914 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
7915 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
7916 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
7917 values at once couldn't work.
7918 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
7919 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
7920 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
7921 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
7922 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
7923 they can handle any number of routers.
7924 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
7925 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
7926 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
7927 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
7928 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
7929 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
7930 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
7931 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
7932 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
7935 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
7936 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7937 - Make hibernation actually work.
7938 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
7939 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
7940 don't use the stream status code.
7943 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
7945 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
7946 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
7948 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
7951 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
7952 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
7953 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
7954 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
7955 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
7956 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
7957 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
7958 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
7959 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
7960 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
7962 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7963 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
7964 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
7965 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
7966 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
7967 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
7968 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
7969 - Make unit tests work on win32.
7972 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
7973 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
7974 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
7976 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
7977 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
7978 than just chopping them off.
7979 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
7981 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7982 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
7983 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
7984 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
7985 right after sending the begin cell.
7986 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
7987 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
7988 exit nodes too. Oops.
7991 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
7992 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
7993 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
7994 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
7995 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
7996 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
7997 the user knows which one it's talking about.
7998 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
7999 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
8000 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
8003 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
8004 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8005 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
8006 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
8008 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
8010 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
8011 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
8012 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
8014 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
8015 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
8016 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
8017 Clip rather than rejecting.
8018 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
8019 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
8022 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
8023 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
8024 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
8025 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
8027 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
8030 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
8031 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8032 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
8033 win32 socket errors better.
8035 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8036 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
8039 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
8040 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8041 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
8042 so we don't see those messages days later.
8044 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8045 - Make tor-resolve work again.
8046 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
8047 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
8050 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
8051 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
8052 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
8053 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
8055 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
8056 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
8057 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
8060 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
8061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8062 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
8063 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
8064 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
8065 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
8066 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
8067 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
8068 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
8070 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
8071 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
8072 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
8073 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
8075 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
8076 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
8079 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
8080 hibernation properties by
8081 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
8082 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
8083 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
8084 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
8085 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
8086 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
8087 get back to normal.)
8088 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
8090 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
8091 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
8092 to fill the last cell completely.
8093 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
8096 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
8097 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8098 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
8099 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
8100 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
8101 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
8102 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
8103 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
8104 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
8105 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
8106 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
8108 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
8109 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
8110 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
8111 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
8112 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
8113 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
8114 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
8115 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
8117 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
8118 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
8119 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
8120 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
8121 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
8122 have it on start-up.
8125 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
8126 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
8127 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
8128 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
8129 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
8130 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
8131 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
8132 configuration to torrc.
8133 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
8134 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
8135 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
8136 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
8137 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
8139 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
8140 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
8141 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
8142 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
8143 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
8144 log more informatively.
8145 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
8146 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
8147 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
8148 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
8149 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
8150 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
8151 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
8152 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
8153 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
8154 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
8155 from each other, to hinder linkability.
8158 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
8159 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
8160 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
8161 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
8162 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
8163 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
8164 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
8166 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
8167 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
8168 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
8169 they ran out of file descriptors.
8170 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
8171 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
8172 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
8173 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
8174 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
8175 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
8176 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
8178 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
8181 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
8182 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
8183 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
8184 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
8185 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
8186 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
8187 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
8188 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
8189 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
8190 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
8191 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
8192 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
8193 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
8194 with the control port.
8195 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
8196 use in authenticating to the control interface.
8197 - New log format in config:
8198 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
8199 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
8202 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
8203 from their dirserver.
8204 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
8206 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
8207 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
8208 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
8209 them act more like real nodes.
8210 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
8211 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
8213 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
8214 nickname to its identity key.
8215 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
8216 not on the command line.
8217 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
8218 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
8219 1024) file descriptors.
8221 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
8222 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
8224 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
8225 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
8226 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
8229 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
8230 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
8231 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
8232 exit policy, not reject *:*.
8233 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
8234 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
8235 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
8236 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
8237 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
8238 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
8239 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
8242 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
8243 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
8244 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
8245 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
8246 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
8247 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
8248 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
8251 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
8252 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
8253 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
8254 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
8255 the ones we find in directories.)
8256 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
8258 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
8259 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
8261 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
8262 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
8263 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
8265 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
8266 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
8267 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
8268 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
8270 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
8271 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
8272 any more exit policy lines.
8275 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
8276 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
8277 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
8278 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
8279 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
8280 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
8281 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
8282 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
8283 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
8284 will be able to get a directory.
8285 - Http proxy support
8286 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
8287 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
8288 be routed through this host.
8289 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
8290 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
8291 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
8292 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
8295 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
8297 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
8298 clients/servers with an open dirport.
8299 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
8300 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
8301 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
8302 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
8303 intermittent connections.
8304 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
8305 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
8307 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
8308 in reporting stats locally.
8309 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
8310 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
8311 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
8314 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
8316 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
8317 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
8320 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
8322 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
8323 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
8324 if you don't want it open.
8325 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
8326 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
8327 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
8328 intermittent connections.
8329 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
8331 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
8332 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
8333 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
8334 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
8335 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
8336 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
8337 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
8338 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
8339 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
8340 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
8341 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
8342 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
8343 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
8344 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
8345 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
8346 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
8349 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
8350 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
8351 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
8352 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
8353 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
8355 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
8357 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
8358 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
8359 specified in HTTP 1.0.
8360 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
8361 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
8362 than once per minute.
8363 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
8364 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
8367 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
8368 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
8371 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
8372 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
8373 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
8374 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
8377 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
8378 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
8380 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
8381 don't put it into the client dns cache.
8382 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
8383 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
8384 until we get our next directory.
8386 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
8387 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
8388 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
8389 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
8390 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
8391 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
8392 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
8393 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
8394 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
8395 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
8396 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
8398 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
8400 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
8401 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
8403 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
8404 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
8405 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
8407 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
8409 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
8410 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
8411 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
8412 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
8413 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
8414 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
8415 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
8416 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
8419 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
8420 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
8421 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
8422 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
8425 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
8426 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
8427 ask them to resolve the host "".
8430 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
8431 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
8432 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
8433 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
8434 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
8435 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
8436 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
8437 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
8438 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
8439 clients don't use this yet.)
8440 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
8441 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
8442 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
8443 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
8444 for pointing out this bug.)
8445 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
8446 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
8447 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
8448 kazaa, gnutella ports.
8449 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
8451 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
8452 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
8453 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
8454 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
8455 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
8456 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
8457 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
8458 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
8459 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
8461 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
8462 that's still handshaking.
8463 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
8464 you'll choose it for your path.
8465 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
8466 end relay cell, etc.
8467 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
8468 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
8469 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
8472 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
8473 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
8475 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
8476 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
8477 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
8478 list to decide who's running or verified.
8479 - Bugfixes and features:
8480 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
8481 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
8482 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
8483 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
8484 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
8485 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
8487 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
8488 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
8489 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
8490 know you might want to get it verified.
8491 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
8494 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
8496 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
8497 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
8498 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
8499 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
8502 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
8503 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
8504 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
8505 hadn't heard of before.
8508 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
8509 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
8510 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
8511 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
8512 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
8513 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
8514 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
8515 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
8516 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
8517 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
8518 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
8519 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
8520 - Directory caching.
8521 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
8522 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
8523 directory they've pulled down.
8524 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
8525 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
8526 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
8527 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
8528 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
8529 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
8530 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
8532 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
8533 This isn't used yet.
8534 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
8535 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
8536 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
8537 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
8538 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
8539 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
8540 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
8541 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
8542 - File and name management:
8543 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
8544 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
8546 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
8547 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
8548 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
8549 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
8550 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
8551 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
8552 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
8554 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
8555 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
8556 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
8557 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
8558 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
8560 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
8561 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
8562 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
8563 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
8564 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
8565 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
8566 - New docs in the tarball:
8568 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
8571 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
8572 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
8573 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
8576 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
8577 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
8578 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
8581 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
8582 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
8585 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
8586 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
8587 - Make it build on Win32 again.
8588 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
8589 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
8593 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
8595 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
8596 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
8597 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
8598 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
8599 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
8600 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
8601 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
8602 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
8603 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
8604 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
8607 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
8610 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
8611 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
8612 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
8613 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
8615 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
8616 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
8617 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
8619 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
8620 hidden service per 15-minute period.
8621 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
8622 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
8623 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
8624 o Fixes for security bugs:
8625 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
8626 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
8627 a trusted dirserver.
8629 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
8630 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
8631 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
8632 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
8633 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
8634 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
8635 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
8636 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
8637 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
8638 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
8640 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
8641 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
8642 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
8643 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
8645 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
8646 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
8647 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
8648 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
8649 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
8650 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
8651 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
8652 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
8653 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
8654 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
8655 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
8656 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
8657 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
8660 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
8661 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
8662 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
8663 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
8666 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
8667 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
8668 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
8669 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
8670 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
8671 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
8672 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
8676 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
8680 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
8681 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
8682 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
8683 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
8684 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
8686 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
8689 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
8690 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
8691 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
8692 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
8693 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
8694 o Better debugging for tls errors
8695 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
8696 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
8697 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
8698 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
8699 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
8700 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
8701 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
8702 o win32's close can't close a socket.
8705 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
8706 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
8707 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
8708 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
8709 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
8710 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
8711 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
8712 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
8713 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
8714 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
8715 just close the circ.
8716 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
8717 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
8718 (this was quite rare).
8721 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
8722 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
8723 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
8724 if you decrypted them correctly.
8725 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
8726 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
8727 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
8730 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
8731 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
8732 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
8733 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
8734 a second one and it works.
8735 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
8736 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
8737 alice would just have to wait to time out.
8738 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
8739 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
8740 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
8741 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
8742 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
8743 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
8744 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
8745 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
8746 i'd still like to find the bug though.
8747 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
8749 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
8753 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
8754 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
8755 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
8756 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
8757 he retries a couple of times
8758 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
8759 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
8760 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
8761 too long (they were sticking around forever).
8762 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
8766 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
8767 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
8768 - make hup work again
8769 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
8770 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
8771 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
8772 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
8773 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
8774 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
8776 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
8777 o changes from 0.0.5:
8778 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
8779 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
8780 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
8781 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
8782 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
8784 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
8785 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
8786 in-memory directories too
8789 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
8790 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
8793 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
8795 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
8796 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
8797 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
8798 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
8801 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
8805 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
8806 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
8808 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
8809 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
8810 but that aren't warnings
8813 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
8814 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
8815 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
8816 the dns farm to do it.
8817 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
8818 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
8820 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
8821 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
8822 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
8825 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
8826 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
8827 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
8828 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
8829 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
8830 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
8831 expect it to have a nickname.
8832 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
8833 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
8836 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
8837 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
8841 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
8842 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
8843 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
8844 - include missing header fcntl.h
8845 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
8846 - deal with hardware word alignment
8847 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
8848 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
8849 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
8850 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
8851 by kill -USR1 currently.
8852 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
8853 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
8854 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
8857 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
8858 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
8859 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
8862 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
8864 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
8865 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
8866 - And fix a few endian issues.
8869 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
8871 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
8872 try that circuit again: try a new one.
8873 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
8874 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
8875 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
8876 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
8877 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
8878 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
8880 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
8881 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
8882 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
8884 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
8886 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
8887 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
8888 side isn't reading right then.
8889 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
8891 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
8892 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
8893 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
8896 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
8898 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
8899 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
8902 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
8906 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
8908 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
8909 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
8910 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
8911 connection is finished.
8912 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
8913 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
8914 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
8915 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
8916 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
8917 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
8918 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
8919 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
8920 rather than warn and continue.
8921 - Make --version work
8922 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
8925 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
8927 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
8929 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
8930 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
8932 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
8933 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
8934 so you can collect coredumps there.
8936 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
8937 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
8938 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
8939 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
8940 dns cache actually gets populated.
8941 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
8942 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
8943 end cell down it first.
8944 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
8945 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
8948 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
8950 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
8951 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
8953 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
8954 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
8955 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
8956 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
8957 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
8958 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
8960 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
8962 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
8963 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
8964 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
8965 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
8966 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
8967 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
8969 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
8970 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
8973 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
8975 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
8976 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
8977 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
8978 tor. It even has a man page.
8979 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
8980 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
8981 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
8982 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
8984 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
8986 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
8989 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
8991 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
8993 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
8994 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
8995 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
8996 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
8997 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
8998 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
8999 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
9000 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
9001 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
9002 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
9003 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
9005 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
9006 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
9009 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
9011 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
9012 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
9015 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
9017 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
9018 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
9019 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
9020 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
9021 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
9022 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
9023 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
9024 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
9025 logfile so you know it's working.
9026 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
9027 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
9030 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
9032 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
9033 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
9034 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
9037 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
9039 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
9040 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
9041 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
9044 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
9045 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
9046 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
9048 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
9049 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
9051 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
9052 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
9053 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
9055 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
9056 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
9060 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
9062 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
9063 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
9064 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
9067 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
9068 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
9069 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
9070 - Add port ranges to exit policies
9071 - Add a conservative default exit policy
9072 - Warn if you're running tor as root
9073 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
9074 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
9075 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
9076 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
9078 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
9081 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
9082 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9083 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
9084 really screw things up.
9085 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
9087 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
9088 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
9090 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
9091 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
9092 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
9093 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
9094 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
9095 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
9098 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
9101 - Change default loglevel to warn.
9102 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
9103 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
9105 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
9108 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
9109 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9110 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
9111 - to get ownership/permissions right
9112 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
9113 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
9114 pull down a directory again
9115 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
9116 causing server crashes
9117 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
9118 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
9119 - exit if bind() fails
9120 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
9121 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
9122 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
9123 - fix minor bias in PRNG
9124 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
9127 - Wrote the design document (woo)
9129 o Circuit building and exit policies:
9130 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
9132 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
9133 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
9134 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
9135 exists, rather than failing
9136 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
9137 which AP connections are standing by
9138 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
9139 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
9140 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
9142 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
9143 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
9146 - APPort is now called SocksPort
9147 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
9149 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
9150 hardcoded (for dirservers)
9151 - Reloads config on HUP
9152 - Usage info on -h or --help
9153 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
9156 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
9157 o General stability:
9158 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
9159 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
9160 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
9161 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
9162 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
9163 to take down the network when I approve a new router
9164 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
9167 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
9168 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
9170 o Autoconf improvements:
9171 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
9172 - Make install now works
9173 - create var/lib/tor on make install
9174 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
9175 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
9177 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
9178 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
9179 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
9180 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup