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  1. Changes so far in 0.0.9:
  2. pre3:
  3. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  4. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  5. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  6. the ones we find in directories.)
  7. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  8. bit platforms.
  9. - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
  10. as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
  11. the dirserver.
  12. - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
  13. close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
  14. would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
  15. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
  16. - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
  17. provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
  18. - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
  19. corruption.
  20. - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
  21. - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
  22. any more exit policy lines.
  23. o Features:
  24. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  25. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  26. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  27. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  28. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]". If no
  29. dirservers specified, default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  30. - Http proxy support
  31. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  32. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  33. be routed through this host.
  34. pre2:
  35. o Bugfixes on pre1:
  36. - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
  37. - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
  38. pre1:
  39. o Bugfixes:
  40. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  41. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  42. if you don't want it open.
  43. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
  44. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  45. happier.
  46. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  47. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  48. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  49. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  50. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  51. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  52. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  53. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  54. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  55. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  56. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  57. before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  58. assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  59. the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
  60. o Features:
  61. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  62. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  63. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  64. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  65. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  66. options.
  67. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  68. appropriate.
  69. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  70. We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  71. specified in HTTP 1.0.
  72. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  73. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  74. than once per minute
  75. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  76. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  77. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  78. o Bugfixes:
  79. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  80. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  81. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  82. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  83. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  84. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  85. intermittent connections.
  86. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  87. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  88. reattaches.
  89. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  90. in reporting stats locally.
  91. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  92. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  93. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  94. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  95. o Bugfixes:
  96. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  97. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  98. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  99. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  100. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  101. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  102. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  103. list to decide who's running.
  104. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  105. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  106. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  107. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  108. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  109. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  110. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  111. for pointing out this bug.)
  112. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  113. directory.
  114. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  115. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  116. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  117. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  118. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  119. o Protocol changes:
  120. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  121. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  122. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  123. hadn't heard of before.
  124. o Features:
  125. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  126. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  127. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  128. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  129. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  130. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  131. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  132. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  133. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  134. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  135. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  136. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  137. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  138. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  139. - Directory caching.
  140. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  141. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  142. directory they've pulled down.
  143. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  144. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  145. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  146. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  147. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  148. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  149. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  150. by hash-of-key).
  151. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  152. This isn't used yet.
  153. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  154. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  155. clients don't use this yet.)
  156. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  157. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  158. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  159. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  160. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  161. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  162. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  163. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  164. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  165. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  166. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  167. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  168. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  169. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  170. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  171. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  172. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  173. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  174. - File and name management:
  175. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  176. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  177. as datadir.
  178. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  179. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  180. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  181. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  182. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  183. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  184. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  185. to use.
  186. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  187. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  188. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  189. locally.
  190. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  191. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  192. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  193. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  194. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  195. - New docs in the tarball:
  196. - tor-doc.html.
  197. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  198. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  199. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  200. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  201. know you might want to get it verified.
  202. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  203. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  204. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  205. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  206. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  207. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  208. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  209. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  210. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  211. "GET /".
  212. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  213. an exitnode.
  214. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  215. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  216. or exit nodes.
  217. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  218. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  219. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  220. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  221. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  222. ask them to resolve the host "".
  223. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  224. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  225. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  226. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  227. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  228. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  229. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  230. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  231. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  232. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  233. them.
  234. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  235. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  236. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  237. exit nodes.
  238. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  239. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  240. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  241. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  242. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  243. o Fixes for security bugs:
  244. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  245. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  246. a trusted dirserver.
  247. o Other bugfixes:
  248. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  249. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  250. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  251. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  252. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  253. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  254. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  255. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  256. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  257. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  258. have failed.
  259. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  260. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  261. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  262. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  263. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  264. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  265. easily.
  266. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  267. settings too.
  268. o Features:
  269. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  270. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  271. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  272. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  273. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  274. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  275. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  276. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  277. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  278. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  279. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  280. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  281. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  282. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  283. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  284. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  285. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  286. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  287. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  288. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  289. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  290. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  291. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  292. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  293. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  294. server.
  295. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  296. o Features:
  297. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  298. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  299. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  300. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  301. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  302. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  303. if you decrypted them correctly.
  304. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  305. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  306. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  307. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  308. in-memory directories too.
  309. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  310. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  311. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  312. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  313. just close the circ.
  314. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  315. - Better debugging for tls errors
  316. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  317. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  318. o Bugfixes:
  319. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  320. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  321. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  322. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  323. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  324. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  325. it tells you about the first error.
  326. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  327. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  328. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  329. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  330. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  331. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  332. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  333. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  334. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  335. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  336. o Portability:
  337. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  338. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  339. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  340. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  341. torrc. (Woo!)
  342. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  343. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  344. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  345. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  346. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  347. expect it to have a nickname.
  348. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  349. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  350. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  351. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  352. the dns farm to do it.
  353. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  354. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  355. directory.
  356. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  357. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  358. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  359. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  360. but that aren't warnings
  361. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  362. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  363. we would crash.
  364. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  365. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  366. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  367. - include missing header fcntl.h
  368. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  369. - deal with hardware word alignment
  370. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  371. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  372. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  373. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  374. by kill -USR1 currently.
  375. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  376. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  377. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  378. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  379. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  380. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  381. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  382. o Bugfixes:
  383. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  384. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  385. - And fix a few endian issues.
  386. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  387. o New features:
  388. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  389. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  390. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  391. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  392. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  393. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  394. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  395. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  396. about as a server.
  397. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  398. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  399. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  400. o Bugfixes:
  401. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  402. simply not true.
  403. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  404. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  405. side isn't reading right then.
  406. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  407. RecommendedVersions
  408. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  409. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  410. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  411. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  412. o New features:
  413. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  414. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  415. e.g. poblano.
  416. o Bugfixes:
  417. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  418. crashed.
  419. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  420. o Bugfixes:
  421. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  422. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  423. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  424. connection is finished.
  425. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  426. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  427. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  428. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  429. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  430. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  431. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  432. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  433. rather than warn and continue.
  434. - Make --version work
  435. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  436. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  437. o New features:
  438. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  439. knows it's working.
  440. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  441. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  442. clearly thwarted.)
  443. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  444. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  445. so you can collect coredumps there.
  446. o Bugfixes:
  447. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  448. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  449. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  450. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  451. dns cache actually gets populated.
  452. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  453. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  454. end cell down it first.
  455. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  456. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  457. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  458. o New features:
  459. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  460. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  461. errors happen.
  462. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  463. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  464. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  465. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  466. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  467. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  468. it.
  469. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  470. o Bugfixes:
  471. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  472. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  473. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  474. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  475. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  476. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  477. dirservers.
  478. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  479. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  480. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  481. o New features:
  482. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  483. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  484. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  485. tor. It even has a man page.
  486. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  487. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  488. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  489. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  490. his/her torrc.
  491. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  492. o Bugfixes:
  493. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  494. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  495. o New features:
  496. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  497. it, apt-getters. :)
  498. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  499. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  500. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  501. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  502. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  503. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  504. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  505. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  506. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  507. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  508. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  509. to new ones.
  510. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  511. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  512. o Bugfixes:
  513. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  514. after a while.
  515. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  516. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  517. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  518. o Bugfixes:
  519. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  520. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  521. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  522. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  523. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  524. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  525. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  526. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  527. logfile so you know it's working.
  528. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  529. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  530. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  531. o Bugfixes:
  532. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  533. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  534. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  535. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  536. o Bugfixes:
  537. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  538. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  539. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  540. o Features:
  541. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  542. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  543. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  544. with MorphMix).
  545. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  546. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  547. relay cells.
  548. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  549. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  550. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  551. this hop.
  552. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  553. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  554. been made so far.
  555. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  556. o Bugfixes:
  557. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  558. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  559. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  560. o Features:
  561. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  562. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  563. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  564. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  565. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  566. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  567. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  568. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  569. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  570. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  571. exit nodes.
  572. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  573. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  574. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  575. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  576. really screw things up.
  577. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  578. working.
  579. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  580. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  581. established.
  582. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  583. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  584. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  585. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  586. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  587. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  588. o Documentation:
  589. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  590. o Configuration:
  591. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  592. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  593. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  594. ORPort>0.
  595. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  596. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  597. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  598. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  599. - to get ownership/permissions right
  600. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  601. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  602. pull down a directory again
  603. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  604. causing server crashes
  605. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  606. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  607. - exit if bind() fails
  608. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  609. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  610. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  611. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  612. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  613. o Documentation:
  614. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  615. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  616. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  617. are down.
  618. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  619. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  620. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  621. exists, rather than failing
  622. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  623. which AP connections are standing by
  624. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  625. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  626. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  627. circuit.
  628. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  629. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  630. o Configuration:
  631. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  632. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  633. where to bind
  634. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  635. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  636. - Reloads config on HUP
  637. - Usage info on -h or --help
  638. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  639. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  640. o General stability:
  641. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  642. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  643. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  644. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  645. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  646. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  647. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  648. o Buffers:
  649. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  650. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  651. o Autoconf improvements:
  652. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  653. - Make install now works
  654. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  655. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  656. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  657. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  658. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  659. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  660. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup