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  1. Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-??
  2. Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
  3. Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
  4. fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
  5. memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
  6. o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
  7. - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
  8. Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
  9. the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
  10. bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
  11. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  12. - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
  13. upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
  14. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  15. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
  16. - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
  17. keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
  18. memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  19. Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
  20. Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
  21. reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
  22. basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
  23. the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
  24. build system.
  25. It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
  26. security, correctness, and performance.
  27. Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
  28. o Major features (directory protocol):
  29. - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
  30. version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
  31. since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
  32. now request these documents when available. When both client and
  33. server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
  34. to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
  35. proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
  36. - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
  37. compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
  38. performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
  39. used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
  40. times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
  41. with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
  42. proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
  43. - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
  44. consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
  45. avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
  46. o Major features (experimental):
  47. - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
  48. the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
  49. get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
  50. beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
  51. that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
  52. packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
  53. find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
  54. o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
  55. - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
  56. each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
  57. parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
  58. eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
  59. network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
  60. Tor users.
  61. Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
  62. and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
  63. still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
  64. ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
  65. ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
  66. users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
  67. Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
  68. - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
  69. counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
  70. is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
  71. multiples of 10000.
  72. o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
  73. - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
  74. in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
  75. connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
  76. extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
  77. on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
  78. valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
  79. the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
  80. relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  81. - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
  82. "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
  83. connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
  84. relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
  85. Otherwise it is at info.
  86. o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
  87. - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
  88. can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
  89. 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  90. o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
  91. - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
  92. from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  93. Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
  94. o Minor features (security, windows):
  95. - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
  96. (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
  97. since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
  98. (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
  99. affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
  100. o Minor features (config options):
  101. - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
  102. directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
  103. files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
  104. - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
  105. includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
  106. overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
  107. - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
  108. will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
  109. o Minor features (controller):
  110. - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
  111. deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
  112. o Minor features (defaults):
  113. - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
  114. haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
  115. ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
  116. can. Closes ticket 21407.
  117. - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
  118. network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
  119. lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
  120. keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
  121. consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
  122. Closes ticket 21641.
  123. o Minor features (fallback directory list):
  124. - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
  125. on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
  126. - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
  127. December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
  128. 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
  129. 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
  130. o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
  131. - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
  132. introduction points than specified in
  133. HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
  134. - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
  135. circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
  136. 21594; closes ticket 21622.
  137. - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
  138. HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
  139. hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
  140. 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
  141. o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  142. - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
  143. seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
  144. diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
  145. unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
  146. - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
  147. from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
  148. order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
  149. turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
  150. compression. Closes ticket 22096.
  151. o Minor features (logging):
  152. - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
  153. (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
  154. world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
  155. change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
  156. from toralf.
  157. o Minor features (performance):
  158. - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
  159. efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
  160. ticket 21737.
  161. - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
  162. speed some controller functions.
  163. o Minor features (relay, configuration):
  164. - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
  165. for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
  166. 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
  167. o Minor features (safety):
  168. - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
  169. NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
  170. help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
  171. ticket 21496.
  172. o Minor features (testing):
  173. - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
  174. When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
  175. redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
  176. from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
  177. bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
  178. on. Closes ticket 21439.
  179. - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
  180. subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
  181. grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
  182. examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
  183. events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
  184. compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
  185. - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
  186. components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
  187. range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
  188. 21507. Partially implements 21470.
  189. o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
  190. - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
  191. rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
  192. Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
  193. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  194. - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
  195. authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
  196. extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
  197. on 0.2.4.23.
  198. o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  199. - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
  200. bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  201. o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
  202. - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
  203. unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
  204. single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
  205. consensus to control the default values for both this preference
  206. and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
  207. bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  208. - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
  209. help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
  210. a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
  211. rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
  212. updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
  213. making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
  214. is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
  215. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  216. - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
  217. 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  218. - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
  219. fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
  220. This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
  221. ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
  222. minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  223. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  224. - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
  225. of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
  226. not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  227. - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
  228. initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
  229. file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
  230. o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
  231. - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
  232. libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
  233. expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
  234. Karpov using PVS-Studio.
  235. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  236. - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
  237. explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  238. - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
  239. allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
  240. they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  241. - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
  242. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  243. - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
  244. and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
  245. selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  246. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  247. - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
  248. request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
  249. Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  250. - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
  251. flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
  252. 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  253. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
  254. - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
  255. Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  256. o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
  257. - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
  258. to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
  259. where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
  260. 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
  261. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  262. - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
  263. process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
  264. OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  265. - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
  266. bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  267. - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
  268. Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
  269. due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
  270. bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
  271. o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
  272. - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
  273. whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
  274. parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
  275. and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  276. o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
  277. - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
  278. relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  279. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  280. - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
  281. into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
  282. maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
  283. - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
  284. included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
  285. examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
  286. - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
  287. extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
  288. headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
  289. - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
  290. space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
  291. ticket 17868.
  292. - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
  293. Resolves ticket 22213.
  294. - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
  295. serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
  296. memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
  297. a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
  298. there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
  299. types. Closes ticket 21651.
  300. - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
  301. the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
  302. o Documentation:
  303. - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
  304. Closes ticket 21873.
  305. - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
  306. Closes ticket 21151.
  307. - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
  308. NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
  309. on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  310. - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
  311. in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  312. - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
  313. DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
  314. o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
  315. - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
  316. have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
  317. AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
  318. TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
  319. in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
  320. behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
  321. default behavior is now unavailable.
  322. - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
  323. CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
  324. 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
  325. on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
  326. - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
  327. in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
  328. (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
  329. o Removed features (tools):
  330. - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
  331. used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
  332. versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
  333. been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
  334. required. Closes ticket 21842.
  335. Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
  336. Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
  337. of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
  338. to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
  339. clients are not affected.
  340. o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
  341. - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
  342. could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
  343. exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
  344. should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
  345. Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  346. o Minor features:
  347. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  348. Country database.
  349. o Minor features (future-proofing):
  350. - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
  351. if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
  352. eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
  353. in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
  354. resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
  355. Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
  356. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  357. - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
  358. sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
  359. libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
  360. syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
  361. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  362. Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
  363. Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
  364. With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
  365. authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
  366. RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
  367. Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
  368. the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
  369. in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
  370. capture attacks.
  371. This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
  372. along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
  373. Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
  374. release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
  375. after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
  376. longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
  377. that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
  378. Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
  379. since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
  380. o Minor features (geoip):
  381. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  382. Country database.
  383. o Minor bugfixes (control port):
  384. - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
  385. of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
  386. refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  387. o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
  388. - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
  389. bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
  390. 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  391. Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
  392. Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
  393. 0.3.0 release series.
  394. This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
  395. much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
  396. regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
  397. identical to it.
  398. o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
  399. - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
  400. linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
  401. 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  402. o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
  403. - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
  404. some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
  405. their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  406. Reported by "torvlnt33r".
  407. o Minor features (geoip):
  408. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  409. Country database.
  410. o Minor bugfix (compilation):
  411. - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
  412. exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
  413. compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
  414. on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  415. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  416. - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
  417. even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
  418. Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  419. - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
  420. failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
  421. wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
  422. 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
  423. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  424. - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
  425. 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  426. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  427. - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
  428. receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
  429. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  430. o Minor bugfixes (tests):
  431. - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
  432. to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
  433. contained guards that had expired since the test was first
  434. written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  435. o Documentation:
  436. - Update the description of the directory server options in the
  437. manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
  438. DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
  439. Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
  440. Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
  441. releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
  442. this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  443. release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
  444. option.
  445. Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
  446. any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
  447. a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  448. o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  449. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  450. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  451. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  452. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  453. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  454. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  455. o Minor features (geoip):
  456. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  457. Country database.
  458. Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
  459. Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  460. releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
  461. this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  462. release series.
  463. Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
  464. any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
  465. a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  466. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  467. - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  468. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  469. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  470. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  471. o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  472. - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  473. it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  474. by "teor".
  475. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  476. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  477. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  478. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  479. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  480. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  481. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  482. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  483. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  484. o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  485. - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  486. received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  487. address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  488. Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  489. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  490. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  491. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  492. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  493. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  494. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  495. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  496. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  497. o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  498. - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  499. a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  500. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  501. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  502. o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  503. - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  504. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  505. o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  506. - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  507. pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  508. should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  509. running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  510. if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  511. 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  512. Baishakhi Ray.
  513. o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  514. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  515. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  516. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  517. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  518. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  519. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  520. o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  521. - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  522. zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  523. bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  524. patch by "teor".
  525. o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  526. - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  527. corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  528. assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  529. o Minor features (geoip):
  530. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  531. Country database.
  532. Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
  533. Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  534. releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
  535. this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  536. release series.
  537. Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
  538. any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
  539. a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  540. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  541. - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  542. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  543. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  544. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  545. o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  546. - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  547. it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  548. by "teor".
  549. o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  550. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  551. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  552. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  553. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  554. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  555. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  556. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  557. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  558. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  559. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  560. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  561. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  562. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  563. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  564. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  565. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  566. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  567. o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  568. - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  569. received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  570. address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  571. Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  572. o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  573. - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  574. beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  575. Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  576. systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  577. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  578. o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  579. - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  580. a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  581. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  582. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  583. o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  584. - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  585. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  586. o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  587. - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  588. guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  589. accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  590. flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  591. performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  592. by Mohsen Imani.
  593. o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  594. - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  595. pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  596. should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  597. running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  598. if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  599. 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  600. Baishakhi Ray.
  601. o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  602. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  603. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  604. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  605. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  606. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  607. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  608. o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  609. - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  610. zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  611. bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  612. patch by "teor".
  613. o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  614. - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  615. corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  616. assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  617. o Minor features (geoip):
  618. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  619. Country database.
  620. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  621. - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  622. presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  623. Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
  624. Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  625. releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
  626. this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  627. release series.
  628. Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
  629. any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
  630. a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  631. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  632. - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  633. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  634. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  635. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  636. o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  637. - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  638. it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  639. by "teor".
  640. o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  641. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  642. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  643. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  644. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  645. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  646. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  647. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  648. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  649. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  650. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  651. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  652. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  653. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  654. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  655. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  656. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  657. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  658. o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  659. - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  660. received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  661. address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  662. Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  663. o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  664. - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  665. beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  666. Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  667. systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  668. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  669. o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  670. - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  671. a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  672. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  673. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  674. o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  675. - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  676. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  677. o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  678. - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  679. guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  680. accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  681. flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  682. performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  683. by Mohsen Imani.
  684. o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  685. - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  686. pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  687. should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  688. running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  689. if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  690. 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  691. Baishakhi Ray.
  692. o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  693. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  694. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  695. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  696. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  697. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  698. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  699. o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  700. - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  701. zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  702. bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  703. patch by "teor".
  704. o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  705. - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  706. corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  707. assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  708. o Minor features (geoip):
  709. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  710. Country database.
  711. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  712. - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  713. presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  714. o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
  715. - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  716. A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  717. uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  718. its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  719. when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  720. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  721. - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  722. a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  723. on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  724. Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
  725. Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
  726. releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
  727. this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
  728. release series.
  729. Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
  730. any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
  731. a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
  732. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
  733. - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  734. o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
  735. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  736. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  737. o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  738. - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  739. it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  740. by "teor".
  741. o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  742. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  743. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  744. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  745. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  746. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  747. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  748. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  749. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  750. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
  751. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  752. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  753. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  754. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  755. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  756. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  757. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  758. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  759. o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
  760. - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  761. beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  762. Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  763. systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  764. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  765. o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  766. - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  767. a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  768. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  769. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  770. o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  771. - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  772. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  773. o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  774. - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  775. guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  776. accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  777. flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  778. performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  779. by Mohsen Imani.
  780. o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
  781. - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  782. pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  783. should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  784. running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  785. if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  786. 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  787. Baishakhi Ray.
  788. o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
  789. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  790. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  791. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  792. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  793. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  794. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  795. o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
  796. - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  797. zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  798. bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  799. patch by "teor".
  800. o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
  801. - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  802. corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  803. assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  804. o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  805. - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
  806. introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
  807. same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
  808. o Minor features (geoip):
  809. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  810. Country database.
  811. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
  812. - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  813. presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  814. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  815. - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  816. a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  817. on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  818. Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
  819. Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
  820. 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
  821. keep them from coming back.
  822. This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
  823. find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
  824. will be nearly identical to it.
  825. o Major bugfixes (bridges):
  826. - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
  827. identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
  828. bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
  829. of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
  830. transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  831. o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
  832. - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
  833. failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on tor-0.3.0.1-alpha.
  834. o Major bugfixes (parsing):
  835. - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
  836. message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
  837. potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
  838. relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
  839. bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
  840. which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
  841. Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
  842. using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
  843. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  844. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  845. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  846. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  847. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  848. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  849. o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
  850. - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
  851. version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
  852. o Minor features (directory authorities):
  853. - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
  854. malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
  855. bug 21278.
  856. - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
  857. Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
  858. Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  859. - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
  860. 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
  861. suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
  862. up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
  863. o Minor features (geoip):
  864. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  865. Country database.
  866. o Minor features (reliability, crash):
  867. - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
  868. think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
  869. bug 21369.
  870. o Minor features (testing):
  871. - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
  872. chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
  873. the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
  874. o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
  875. - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
  876. time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
  877. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  878. - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
  879. comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
  880. - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
  881. options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
  882. bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  883. o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
  884. - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
  885. relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
  886. connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  887. - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
  888. missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
  889. local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
  890. on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  891. o Minor bugfixes (guards):
  892. - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
  893. circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
  894. instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  895. - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
  896. descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
  897. happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  898. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  899. - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
  900. cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
  901. the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
  902. to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
  903. enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  904. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  905. - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
  906. test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on tor-0.2.8.2. Patch
  907. by "hein".
  908. - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
  909. actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
  910. - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
  911. call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
  912. bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  913. o Documentation:
  914. - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
  915. Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
  916. Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
  917. includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
  918. LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
  919. The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
  920. series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
  921. least January of 2020.
  922. o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  923. - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
  924. clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
  925. too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
  926. on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  927. o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  928. - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
  929. any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
  930. exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
  931. addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
  932. which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
  933. 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  934. o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  935. - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
  936. versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
  937. --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
  938. 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
  939. it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
  940. on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
  941. o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  942. - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
  943. malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
  944. bug 21278.
  945. - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
  946. Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
  947. Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  948. o Minor features (geoip):
  949. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  950. Country database.
  951. o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  952. - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
  953. instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
  954. of ticket 21359.
  955. - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
  956. structures. Closes ticket 21359.
  957. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
  958. - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
  959. comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
  960. o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
  961. - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
  962. characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
  963. which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  964. Patch by "junglefowl".
  965. Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
  966. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
  967. 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
  968. authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
  969. bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
  970. includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
  971. The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
  972. features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
  973. some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
  974. test this release.
  975. o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
  976. - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
  977. clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
  978. too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
  979. on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  980. - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
  981. do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
  982. handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
  983. Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
  984. 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  985. o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
  986. - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
  987. have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
  988. accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
  989. 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  990. o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
  991. - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
  992. any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
  993. exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
  994. addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
  995. which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
  996. 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  997. o Minor feature (client):
  998. - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
  999. a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
  1000. o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
  1001. - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
  1002. if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
  1003. 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
  1004. o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
  1005. - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
  1006. preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
  1007. - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
  1008. chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
  1009. o Minor features (controller, configuration):
  1010. - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
  1011. and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
  1012. to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
  1013. change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
  1014. each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
  1015. - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
  1016. meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
  1017. to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
  1018. in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
  1019. o Minor features (portability, compilation):
  1020. - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
  1021. instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
  1022. of ticket 21359.
  1023. - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
  1024. structures. Closes ticket 21359.
  1025. o Minor features (relay):
  1026. - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
  1027. source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
  1028. OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
  1029. Written by Michael Sonntag.
  1030. o Minor bugfix (logging):
  1031. - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
  1032. Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
  1033. anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
  1034. who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
  1035. on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  1036. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  1037. - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
  1038. attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
  1039. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  1040. o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
  1041. - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
  1042. circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
  1043. on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1044. - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
  1045. expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1046. - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
  1047. to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
  1048. network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1049. - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
  1050. primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
  1051. o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
  1052. - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
  1053. --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
  1054. daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
  1055. makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
  1056. heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
  1057. message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
  1058. on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  1059. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  1060. - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
  1061. 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1062. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  1063. - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
  1064. circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
  1065. introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
  1066. points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  1067. - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
  1068. because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
  1069. value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
  1070. on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  1071. - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
  1072. closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
  1073. Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  1074. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1075. - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
  1076. It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
  1077. variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
  1078. on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  1079. - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
  1080. silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
  1081. systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
  1082. GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1083. o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
  1084. - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
  1085. characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
  1086. which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  1087. Patch by "junglefowl".
  1088. o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
  1089. - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
  1090. it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
  1091. on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1092. Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
  1093. Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
  1094. cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
  1095. the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
  1096. versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
  1097. version should upgrade.
  1098. Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
  1099. time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
  1100. mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
  1101. client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
  1102. the set of fallback directories, and more.
  1103. o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
  1104. - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
  1105. --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
  1106. others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
  1107. default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
  1108. denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
  1109. 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1110. o Major features (security):
  1111. - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
  1112. side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
  1113. DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
  1114. Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
  1115. values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
  1116. hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
  1117. o Major features (directory authority, security):
  1118. - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
  1119. will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
  1120. seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
  1121. o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
  1122. - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
  1123. origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
  1124. list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
  1125. including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
  1126. on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1127. o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
  1128. - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
  1129. socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
  1130. could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
  1131. introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
  1132. eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
  1133. mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
  1134. warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
  1135. remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
  1136. negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
  1137. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1138. o Major bugfixes (DNS):
  1139. - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
  1140. more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  1141. o Minor features (controller):
  1142. - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
  1143. shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
  1144. o Minor features (entry guards):
  1145. - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
  1146. break regression tests.
  1147. - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
  1148. sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
  1149. o Minor features (fallback directories):
  1150. - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
  1151. ticket 20881.
  1152. - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
  1153. are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
  1154. - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
  1155. Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
  1156. known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
  1157. a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
  1158. Closes ticket 20539.
  1159. - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
  1160. ticket 18828.
  1161. - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
  1162. 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
  1163. Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
  1164. 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
  1165. this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
  1166. in 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  1167. - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
  1168. decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
  1169. clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
  1170. authority. Part of ticket 18828.
  1171. - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
  1172. weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
  1173. - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
  1174. Closes ticket 20822.
  1175. - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
  1176. fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
  1177. o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
  1178. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1179. Country database.
  1180. o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
  1181. - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
  1182. introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
  1183. as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
  1184. o Minor features (linting):
  1185. - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
  1186. prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
  1187. o Minor features (logging):
  1188. - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
  1189. rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
  1190. o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
  1191. - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
  1192. protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
  1193. breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
  1194. ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
  1195. bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
  1196. o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
  1197. - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
  1198. 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
  1199. Hans Jerry Illikainen.
  1200. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  1201. - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
  1202. prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
  1203. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  1204. o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
  1205. - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
  1206. better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
  1207. bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1208. o Minor bugfixes (config):
  1209. - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
  1210. LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
  1211. options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
  1212. bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  1213. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  1214. - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
  1215. support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
  1216. on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1217. o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
  1218. - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
  1219. options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
  1220. regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
  1221. bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  1222. o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  1223. - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
  1224. be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
  1225. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  1226. - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
  1227. updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1228. - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
  1229. OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
  1230. prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
  1231. bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  1232. - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
  1233. Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  1234. o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
  1235. - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
  1236. the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
  1237. response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1238. o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
  1239. - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
  1240. actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
  1241. configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1242. - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
  1243. than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  1244. o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
  1245. - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
  1246. server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  1247. - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
  1248. consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
  1249. coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
  1250. bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
  1251. 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
  1252. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  1253. - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
  1254. 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  1255. o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
  1256. - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
  1257. CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
  1258. without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
  1259. on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1260. - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
  1261. installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1262. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  1263. - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
  1264. initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
  1265. instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
  1266. Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
  1267. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  1268. - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
  1269. its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  1270. o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  1271. - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
  1272. addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
  1273. bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
  1274. through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  1275. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  1276. - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
  1277. separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
  1278. o Documentation (formatting):
  1279. - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
  1280. blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
  1281. o Documentation (man page):
  1282. - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
  1283. HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
  1284. Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
  1285. Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
  1286. cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
  1287. the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
  1288. versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
  1289. version should upgrade.
  1290. This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
  1291. bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
  1292. o Major bugfixes (security):
  1293. - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
  1294. --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
  1295. like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
  1296. it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
  1297. into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
  1298. bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1299. o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
  1300. - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
  1301. socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
  1302. could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
  1303. introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
  1304. eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
  1305. mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
  1306. warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
  1307. remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
  1308. negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
  1309. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1310. o Minor features (geoip):
  1311. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1312. Country database.
  1313. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1314. - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
  1315. CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
  1316. without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
  1317. on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1318. - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
  1319. installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1320. Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
  1321. Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
  1322. series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
  1323. identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
  1324. clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
  1325. additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
  1326. design. It also contains numerous other small features and
  1327. improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
  1328. Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
  1329. o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
  1330. - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
  1331. ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
  1332. sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
  1333. hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
  1334. ticket 19877.
  1335. o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
  1336. - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
  1337. prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
  1338. don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
  1339. initial code by Alec Heifetz.
  1340. - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
  1341. can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
  1342. generation onion service work detailled in proposal 224. Closes
  1343. ticket 17238.
  1344. o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
  1345. - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
  1346. one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
  1347. secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
  1348. Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
  1349. ticket 15055.
  1350. - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
  1351. cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
  1352. parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
  1353. testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
  1354. might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
  1355. generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
  1356. 15056; part of proposal 220.
  1357. - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
  1358. Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
  1359. an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
  1360. other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
  1361. of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
  1362. o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
  1363. - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
  1364. caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
  1365. rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
  1366. Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  1367. o Minor features (controller):
  1368. - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
  1369. rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
  1370. Ivan Markin.
  1371. o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
  1372. - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
  1373. download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
  1374. bug 20593.
  1375. o Minor features (directory authority):
  1376. - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
  1377. default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
  1378. by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
  1379. releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
  1380. protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
  1381. o Minor features (directory cache):
  1382. - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
  1383. have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
  1384. ticket 20511.
  1385. o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
  1386. - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
  1387. subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
  1388. relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
  1389. o Minor features (fingerprinting resistence, authentication):
  1390. - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
  1391. 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
  1392. secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
  1393. o Minor features (infrastructure):
  1394. - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
  1395. smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
  1396. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  1397. - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
  1398. disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
  1399. use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  1400. o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  1401. - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
  1402. the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  1403. - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
  1404. "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
  1405. supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  1406. o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
  1407. - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
  1408. of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
  1409. the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
  1410. Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  1411. o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
  1412. - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
  1413. when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
  1414. FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
  1415. Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  1416. o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
  1417. - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
  1418. certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
  1419. whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
  1420. on all recent tor versions.
  1421. - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
  1422. rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
  1423. in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
  1424. 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  1425. o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
  1426. - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
  1427. time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  1428. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  1429. - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
  1430. start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
  1431. bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
  1432. and earlier.
  1433. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
  1434. - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
  1435. RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
  1436. on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  1437. o Minor bugfixes (util):
  1438. - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
  1439. the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
  1440. replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
  1441. Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on tor-0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
  1442. o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
  1443. - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
  1444. compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
  1445. 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
  1446. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  1447. - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
  1448. guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
  1449. Closes ticket 19858.
  1450. - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
  1451. service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
  1452. directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
  1453. - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
  1454. - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
  1455. - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
  1456. testability. Closes ticket 18873.
  1457. - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
  1458. switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
  1459. - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
  1460. is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
  1461. - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
  1462. objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
  1463. redundant with the similar structures used in the
  1464. channel abstraction.
  1465. - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
  1466. Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
  1467. - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
  1468. use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
  1469. - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
  1470. replaced with code automatically generated by the
  1471. "trunnel" utility.
  1472. o Documentation:
  1473. - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
  1474. 20622; bugfix on tor-0.2.5.1-alpha.
  1475. - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
  1476. comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
  1477. from pastly.
  1478. - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
  1479. 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
  1480. on tor-0.2.5.6-alpha.
  1481. - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
  1482. must already exist. Fixes 20486.
  1483. - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
  1484. is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
  1485. network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
  1486. ticket 17070.
  1487. o Removed features:
  1488. - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
  1489. limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
  1490. addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
  1491. ticket 20960.
  1492. - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
  1493. that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
  1494. proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
  1495. o Testing:
  1496. - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
  1497. from "overcaffeinated".
  1498. - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
  1499. when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
  1500. - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
  1501. - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
  1502. - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
  1503. test functions.
  1504. Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
  1505. Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
  1506. below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
  1507. hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
  1508. become available for their systems.
  1509. It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
  1510. from 0.2.9.
  1511. Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
  1512. backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
  1513. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
  1514. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  1515. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  1516. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  1517. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  1518. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  1519. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  1520. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  1521. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  1522. o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
  1523. - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
  1524. introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
  1525. fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
  1526. 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
  1527. o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
  1528. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1529. Country database.
  1530. Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
  1531. Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
  1532. The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
  1533. that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
  1534. randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
  1535. hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
  1536. optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
  1537. tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
  1538. downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
  1539. improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
  1540. And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
  1541. This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
  1542. 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
  1543. hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
  1544. become available for their systems.
  1545. Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
  1546. since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
  1547. o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
  1548. - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
  1549. byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
  1550. to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
  1551. to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
  1552. hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
  1553. their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
  1554. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
  1555. 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
  1556. o Minor features (fallback directory list):
  1557. - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
  1558. introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
  1559. fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
  1560. 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
  1561. Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
  1562. Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
  1563. including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
  1564. some platforms.
  1565. o Minor features (geoip):
  1566. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1567. Country database.
  1568. o Minor bugfix (build):
  1569. - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
  1570. now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
  1571. bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  1572. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  1573. - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
  1574. looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
  1575. 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
  1576. o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
  1577. - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
  1578. delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
  1579. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  1580. - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
  1581. pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
  1582. bug 19926.
  1583. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
  1584. - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
  1585. SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  1586. - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
  1587. existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
  1588. destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
  1589. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  1590. - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
  1591. from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
  1592. 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  1593. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1594. - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
  1595. Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
  1596. o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  1597. - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
  1598. of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
  1599. - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
  1600. between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
  1601. us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
  1602. clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1603. - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
  1604. ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
  1605. Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
  1606. Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
  1607. Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
  1608. could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
  1609. OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
  1610. with 0.2.8.10.
  1611. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1612. - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
  1613. to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
  1614. a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
  1615. workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
  1616. monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
  1617. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1618. o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  1619. - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
  1620. architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
  1621. Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
  1622. Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
  1623. unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
  1624. a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
  1625. o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  1626. - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
  1627. circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
  1628. potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  1629. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1630. o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  1631. - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
  1632. when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
  1633. starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  1634. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1635. o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
  1636. - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
  1637. successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
  1638. ticket 20235.
  1639. o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  1640. - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
  1641. 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  1642. o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
  1643. - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
  1644. keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  1645. o Minor features (geoip):
  1646. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1647. Country database.
  1648. Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
  1649. Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
  1650. version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
  1651. encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
  1652. found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
  1653. o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
  1654. - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
  1655. local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
  1656. will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
  1657. log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
  1658. is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1659. o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
  1660. - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
  1661. is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  1662. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  1663. - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
  1664. services and single onion services when first starting tor.
  1665. Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
  1666. used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
  1667. 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
  1668. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1669. - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
  1670. successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
  1671. ticket 20235.
  1672. - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
  1673. require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  1674. o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
  1675. - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
  1676. created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
  1677. are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
  1678. hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
  1679. 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
  1680. o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  1681. - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
  1682. unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
  1683. Neel Chauhan.
  1684. o Documentation:
  1685. - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
  1686. corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
  1687. Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
  1688. Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
  1689. version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
  1690. everyone to test this release.
  1691. o Major bugfixes (client performance):
  1692. - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
  1693. when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
  1694. starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  1695. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1696. o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
  1697. - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
  1698. circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
  1699. potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
  1700. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1701. o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
  1702. - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
  1703. downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
  1704. each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
  1705. hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1706. - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
  1707. download, stop waiting for certificates.
  1708. - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
  1709. started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
  1710. failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
  1711. on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  1712. - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
  1713. we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
  1714. must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
  1715. of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1716. - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
  1717. another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1718. - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
  1719. after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
  1720. will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1721. - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
  1722. exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
  1723. networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
  1724. o Minor features (geoip):
  1725. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1726. Country database.
  1727. o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
  1728. - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
  1729. reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
  1730. exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
  1731. would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
  1732. bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1733. o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
  1734. - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
  1735. assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
  1736. available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  1737. - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
  1738. lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1739. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  1740. - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
  1741. directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
  1742. hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
  1743. in 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  1744. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  1745. - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
  1746. architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
  1747. - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
  1748. removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
  1749. platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1750. - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
  1751. 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  1752. o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
  1753. - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
  1754. Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  1755. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  1756. - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
  1757. keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  1758. - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
  1759. rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  1760. - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
  1761. explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
  1762. 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  1763. o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
  1764. - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
  1765. directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
  1766. on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  1767. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  1768. - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
  1769. cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  1770. o Documentation:
  1771. - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
  1772. also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
  1773. - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
  1774. tickets 19287 and 19290.
  1775. Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
  1776. Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
  1777. of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
  1778. hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
  1779. this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
  1780. versions of Tor.
  1781. o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
  1782. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  1783. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  1784. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  1785. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  1786. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  1787. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  1788. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  1789. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  1790. o Minor features (geoip):
  1791. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1792. Country database.
  1793. Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
  1794. Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
  1795. that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
  1796. service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
  1797. version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
  1798. of Tor.
  1799. Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
  1800. previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
  1801. future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
  1802. fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
  1803. and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
  1804. the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
  1805. be a release candidate.
  1806. o Major features (security fixes):
  1807. - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
  1808. of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
  1809. least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
  1810. versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
  1811. most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
  1812. hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
  1813. though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
  1814. 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
  1815. o Major features (subprotocol versions):
  1816. - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
  1817. subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
  1818. versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
  1819. subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
  1820. _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
  1821. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
  1822. - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
  1823. Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
  1824. a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
  1825. should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
  1826. change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
  1827. exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
  1828. releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
  1829. proposal 264.
  1830. o Minor feature (fallback directories):
  1831. - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
  1832. list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
  1833. o Minor features (client, directory):
  1834. - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
  1835. Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
  1836. have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
  1837. proposal 272.
  1838. o Minor features (compilation, portability):
  1839. - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
  1840. ticket 20241.
  1841. o Minor features (development tools, etags):
  1842. - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
  1843. "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
  1844. ticket 16869.
  1845. o Minor features (geoip):
  1846. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1847. Country database.
  1848. o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
  1849. - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
  1850. ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
  1851. quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
  1852. domain socket paths to contain spaces.
  1853. o Minor features (virtual addresses):
  1854. - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
  1855. prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
  1856. allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
  1857. on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  1858. o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
  1859. - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
  1860. more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
  1861. time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
  1862. Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
  1863. o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
  1864. - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
  1865. the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
  1866. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  1867. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
  1868. - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
  1869. libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
  1870. 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
  1871. o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  1872. - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
  1873. handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
  1874. 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
  1875. o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
  1876. - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
  1877. to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
  1878. 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
  1879. by nherring.
  1880. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  1881. - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
  1882. IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
  1883. on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  1884. o Documentation:
  1885. - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
  1886. previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
  1887. o Required libraries:
  1888. - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
  1889. later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
  1890. OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
  1891. Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
  1892. Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
  1893. high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
  1894. without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
  1895. also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
  1896. strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
  1897. resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
  1898. series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
  1899. o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
  1900. - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
  1901. configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
  1902. in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
  1903. more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
  1904. Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  1905. o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
  1906. - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
  1907. tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
  1908. of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
  1909. 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
  1910. this one.
  1911. o Major features (circuit building, security):
  1912. - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
  1913. descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
  1914. cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
  1915. ticket 19163.
  1916. - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
  1917. rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
  1918. o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
  1919. - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
  1920. HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
  1921. every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
  1922. Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
  1923. connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
  1924. circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
  1925. remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
  1926. hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
  1927. network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
  1928. proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
  1929. o Major features (resource management):
  1930. - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
  1931. preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
  1932. off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
  1933. yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
  1934. "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
  1935. you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
  1936. o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
  1937. - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
  1938. point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
  1939. epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
  1940. o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
  1941. - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
  1942. prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
  1943. rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  1944. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  1945. - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
  1946. their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
  1947. an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
  1948. could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
  1949. 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
  1950. o Minor features (security, TLS):
  1951. - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
  1952. (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
  1953. that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
  1954. OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
  1955. o Minor feature (fallback directories):
  1956. - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
  1957. 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
  1958. 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
  1959. o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
  1960. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  1961. Country database.
  1962. o Minor feature (port flags):
  1963. - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
  1964. requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
  1965. and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
  1966. NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
  1967. 18693; patch by "teor".
  1968. o Minor features (directory authority):
  1969. - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
  1970. "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
  1971. ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
  1972. o Minor features (testing):
  1973. - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
  1974. tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
  1975. behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
  1976. from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
  1977. o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
  1978. - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
  1979. "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
  1980. with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
  1981. Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
  1982. - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
  1983. tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
  1984. requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
  1985. relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
  1986. o Minor features (Tor2web):
  1987. - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
  1988. inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
  1989. 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
  1990. o Minor features (unit tests):
  1991. - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
  1992. - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
  1993. handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
  1994. - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
  1995. prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
  1996. (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
  1997. binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
  1998. messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
  1999. ticket 19999.
  2000. - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
  2001. Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
  2002. help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
  2003. only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
  2004. there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
  2005. This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
  2006. - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
  2007. assertion as a test failure.
  2008. o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
  2009. - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
  2010. LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
  2011. the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
  2012. because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
  2013. 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2014. o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
  2015. - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
  2016. avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
  2017. space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
  2018. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
  2019. - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
  2020. Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
  2021. standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
  2022. first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
  2023. - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
  2024. compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  2025. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  2026. - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
  2027. They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
  2028. currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
  2029. wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  2030. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  2031. - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
  2032. the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
  2033. avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
  2034. key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  2035. - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
  2036. private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
  2037. on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  2038. o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  2039. - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
  2040. by clients when the directory authorities don't set
  2041. min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
  2042. in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
  2043. - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
  2044. Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
  2045. a manpage!).
  2046. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  2047. - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
  2048. error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
  2049. 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2050. o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
  2051. - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
  2052. Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
  2053. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  2054. - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
  2055. calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
  2056. ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
  2057. "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
  2058. systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  2059. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2060. - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
  2061. what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
  2062. asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
  2063. on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  2064. - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
  2065. if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
  2066. Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
  2067. o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
  2068. - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
  2069. NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
  2070. options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
  2071. behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
  2072. 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2073. o Minor bugfixes (options):
  2074. - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
  2075. reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
  2076. by teor.
  2077. - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
  2078. authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
  2079. commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  2080. Patch by teor.
  2081. o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
  2082. - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
  2083. are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
  2084. 19678. Patch by teor.
  2085. o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  2086. - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
  2087. architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
  2088. to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
  2089. and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
  2090. REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
  2091. on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  2092. - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
  2093. debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
  2094. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2095. Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
  2096. Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
  2097. 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
  2098. who select public relays as their bridges.
  2099. o Major bugfixes (crash):
  2100. - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
  2101. configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
  2102. in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
  2103. more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
  2104. Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2105. o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
  2106. - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
  2107. tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
  2108. of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
  2109. 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
  2110. this one.
  2111. o Minor feature (fallback directories):
  2112. - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
  2113. 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
  2114. 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
  2115. o Minor features (geoip):
  2116. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2117. Country database.
  2118. Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
  2119. Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
  2120. several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
  2121. authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
  2122. sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
  2123. encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
  2124. o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
  2125. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  2126. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  2127. o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
  2128. - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
  2129. in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
  2130. every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
  2131. for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
  2132. 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2133. o Major features (user interface):
  2134. - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
  2135. that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
  2136. this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
  2137. o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
  2138. - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
  2139. already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
  2140. bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  2141. o Minor features (config):
  2142. - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
  2143. Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
  2144. o Minor features (geoip):
  2145. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2146. Country database.
  2147. o Minor features (user interface):
  2148. - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
  2149. list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
  2150. ticket 19820.
  2151. o Minor bugfixes (code style):
  2152. - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
  2153. tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
  2154. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  2155. - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
  2156. evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
  2157. on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  2158. - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
  2159. ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
  2160. when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
  2161. Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
  2162. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
  2163. - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
  2164. warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
  2165. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2166. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
  2167. - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
  2168. directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
  2169. and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
  2170. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2171. - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
  2172. Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  2173. o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
  2174. - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
  2175. and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  2176. o Deprecated features:
  2177. - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
  2178. deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
  2179. version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad
  2180. idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
  2181. are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
  2182. UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
  2183. - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
  2184. be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
  2185. AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
  2186. AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
  2187. CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
  2188. CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
  2189. ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
  2190. UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
  2191. - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
  2192. corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
  2193. may someday be removed. The affected options are:
  2194. ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
  2195. NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
  2196. and TransListenAddress.
  2197. o Documentation:
  2198. - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
  2199. VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
  2200. o Removed code:
  2201. - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
  2202. Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
  2203. Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
  2204. Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
  2205. option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
  2206. who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
  2207. encouraged to upgrade.
  2208. o Directory authority changes:
  2209. - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
  2210. authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
  2211. o Major bugfixes (client, security):
  2212. - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
  2213. in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
  2214. every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
  2215. for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
  2216. 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2217. o Minor features (geoip):
  2218. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2219. Country database.
  2220. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  2221. - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
  2222. warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
  2223. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2224. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  2225. - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
  2226. directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
  2227. and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
  2228. Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
  2229. Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
  2230. series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
  2231. warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
  2232. hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
  2233. better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
  2234. log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
  2235. security, correctness, and performance.
  2236. Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
  2237. o New system requirements:
  2238. - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
  2239. versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
  2240. platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
  2241. DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
  2242. - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
  2243. efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
  2244. zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
  2245. released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
  2246. o Major features (build, hardening):
  2247. - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
  2248. it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
  2249. and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
  2250. code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
  2251. instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
  2252. - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
  2253. clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
  2254. Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
  2255. able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
  2256. o Major features (compilation):
  2257. - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
  2258. building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
  2259. GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
  2260. errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
  2261. ticket 19044.
  2262. - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
  2263. turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
  2264. this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
  2265. o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
  2266. - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
  2267. protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
  2268. authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
  2269. future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
  2270. HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
  2271. the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
  2272. of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
  2273. o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
  2274. - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
  2275. for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
  2276. retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
  2277. prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
  2278. or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
  2279. download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
  2280. o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
  2281. - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
  2282. bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
  2283. by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
  2284. these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
  2285. ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
  2286. 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2287. o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
  2288. - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
  2289. FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
  2290. disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
  2291. entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
  2292. o Minor features (build, hardening):
  2293. - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
  2294. clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
  2295. keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
  2296. - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
  2297. hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
  2298. time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
  2299. expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
  2300. Closes ticket 18895.
  2301. o Minor features (code safety):
  2302. - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
  2303. give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
  2304. patch from U+039b.
  2305. o Minor features (controller):
  2306. - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
  2307. download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
  2308. examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
  2309. - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
  2310. hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
  2311. command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
  2312. - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
  2313. status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
  2314. o Minor features (directory authority):
  2315. - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
  2316. they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
  2317. simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
  2318. in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
  2319. Implements ticket 18624.
  2320. - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
  2321. disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
  2322. votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
  2323. ticket 19036.
  2324. o Minor features (hidden service):
  2325. - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
  2326. cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
  2327. now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
  2328. ticket 18998.
  2329. o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
  2330. - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
  2331. available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
  2332. look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
  2333. clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
  2334. - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
  2335. efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
  2336. timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
  2337. analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
  2338. project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
  2339. Closes ticket 18365.
  2340. o Minor features (logging):
  2341. - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
  2342. invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
  2343. - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
  2344. in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
  2345. limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
  2346. MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
  2347. setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
  2348. - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
  2349. use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
  2350. needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
  2351. o Minor features (performance):
  2352. - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
  2353. "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
  2354. consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
  2355. first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
  2356. from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
  2357. first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
  2358. startup. Closes ticket 18815.
  2359. o Minor features (relay, usability):
  2360. - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
  2361. encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
  2362. won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
  2363. learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
  2364. ticket 18760.
  2365. o Minor features (testing):
  2366. - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
  2367. part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  2368. - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
  2369. network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
  2370. Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
  2371. - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
  2372. we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
  2373. Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
  2374. ticket 16792.
  2375. o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
  2376. - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
  2377. certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
  2378. certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
  2379. Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2380. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  2381. - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
  2382. the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
  2383. "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
  2384. patch from "cypherpunks".
  2385. o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
  2386. - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
  2387. Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2388. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  2389. - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
  2390. (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
  2391. detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  2392. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  2393. - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
  2394. of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
  2395. Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  2396. - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
  2397. the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
  2398. order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
  2399. length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  2400. o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  2401. - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
  2402. 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  2403. - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
  2404. tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
  2405. file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
  2406. descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
  2407. o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
  2408. - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
  2409. even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
  2410. on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  2411. o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
  2412. - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
  2413. parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
  2414. on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
  2415. - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
  2416. That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
  2417. anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
  2418. on 0.2.3.10-alpha.
  2419. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
  2420. - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
  2421. build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
  2422. connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
  2423. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  2424. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2425. - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
  2426. username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
  2427. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  2428. - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
  2429. truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
  2430. on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  2431. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  2432. - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
  2433. bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2434. - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
  2435. test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
  2436. generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
  2437. on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  2438. - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
  2439. correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
  2440. on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  2441. o Minor bugfixes (time):
  2442. - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
  2443. bugfix on all released tor versions.
  2444. - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
  2445. we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
  2446. could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
  2447. bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  2448. o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
  2449. - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
  2450. rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
  2451. in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
  2452. rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
  2453. on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
  2454. - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
  2455. Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2456. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  2457. - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
  2458. ticket 18889.
  2459. - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
  2460. Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
  2461. - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
  2462. separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
  2463. o Documentation:
  2464. - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
  2465. ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
  2466. o Removed features:
  2467. - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
  2468. "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
  2469. via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
  2470. 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
  2471. - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
  2472. TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
  2473. from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
  2474. o Testing:
  2475. - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
  2476. previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
  2477. command-line options to enable them.
  2478. - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
  2479. bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
  2480. Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
  2481. Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
  2482. The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
  2483. completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
  2484. keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
  2485. improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
  2486. improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
  2487. changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
  2488. Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
  2489. o Minor features (geoip):
  2490. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2491. Country database.
  2492. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  2493. - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
  2494. is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2495. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  2496. - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
  2497. leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
  2498. 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
  2499. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  2500. - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
  2501. sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
  2502. some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
  2503. 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
  2504. - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
  2505. so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
  2506. Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  2507. Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
  2508. Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
  2509. series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
  2510. 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
  2511. against previous versions.
  2512. o Directory authority changes:
  2513. - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
  2514. o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
  2515. - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
  2516. "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
  2517. 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
  2518. o Minor features (build):
  2519. - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
  2520. branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
  2521. - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
  2522. output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  2523. Patch from intrigeri.
  2524. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
  2525. - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
  2526. fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
  2527. by teor.
  2528. o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
  2529. - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
  2530. allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
  2531. from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
  2532. has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
  2533. on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2534. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2535. - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
  2536. can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
  2537. 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2538. - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
  2539. coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
  2540. message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2541. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
  2542. - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
  2543. enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
  2544. 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
  2545. o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
  2546. - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
  2547. descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
  2548. control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
  2549. only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
  2550. pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2551. o Fallback directory list:
  2552. - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
  2553. explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
  2554. compatible with the stem fallback parser.
  2555. - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
  2556. emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
  2557. fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
  2558. - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
  2559. originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
  2560. ticket 19071; patch by teor.
  2561. Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
  2562. Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
  2563. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
  2564. release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
  2565. previous versions.
  2566. o Major bugfixes (user interface):
  2567. - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
  2568. by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
  2569. Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  2570. o Minor features (build):
  2571. - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
  2572. branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
  2573. o Minor features (geoip):
  2574. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2575. Country database.
  2576. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  2577. - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
  2578. lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  2579. o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
  2580. - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
  2581. we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
  2582. "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
  2583. bug 19191.
  2584. Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
  2585. Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
  2586. the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
  2587. directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
  2588. hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
  2589. more platforms.
  2590. o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
  2591. - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
  2592. received a query with multiple address types, and the first
  2593. address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
  2594. Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  2595. o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
  2596. - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
  2597. is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
  2598. cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
  2599. needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
  2600. bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
  2601. o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
  2602. - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
  2603. the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
  2604. bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2605. o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
  2606. - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
  2607. linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
  2608. begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
  2609. connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
  2610. - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
  2611. have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
  2612. for 18809.
  2613. - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
  2614. rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
  2615. ticket 18809.
  2616. - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
  2617. don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
  2618. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
  2619. o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
  2620. - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
  2621. we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
  2622. decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
  2623. advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
  2624. advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2625. Patch by teor.
  2626. o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
  2627. - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
  2628. IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
  2629. by "teor".
  2630. o Major bugfixes (key management):
  2631. - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
  2632. pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
  2633. should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
  2634. running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
  2635. if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
  2636. 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
  2637. Baishakhi Ray.
  2638. o Major bugfixes (testing):
  2639. - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
  2640. IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  2641. - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
  2642. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2643. o Minor features (clients):
  2644. - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
  2645. encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
  2646. ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
  2647. o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
  2648. - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
  2649. fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
  2650. changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
  2651. to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
  2652. Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
  2653. 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
  2654. - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
  2655. Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
  2656. 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
  2657. o Minor features (geoip):
  2658. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2659. Country database.
  2660. o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
  2661. - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
  2662. shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
  2663. on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  2664. o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
  2665. - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
  2666. certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  2667. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  2668. - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
  2669. configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
  2670. on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2671. - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
  2672. signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
  2673. and 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  2674. - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
  2675. treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
  2676. on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  2677. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  2678. - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
  2679. This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
  2680. them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
  2681. anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2682. - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
  2683. clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
  2684. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  2685. o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
  2686. - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
  2687. control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
  2688. consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
  2689. bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  2690. o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
  2691. - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
  2692. Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
  2693. primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2694. - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
  2695. branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
  2696. ticket 18286.
  2697. o Minor bugfixes (directories):
  2698. - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
  2699. and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
  2700. us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
  2701. Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
  2702. Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2703. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2704. - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
  2705. set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
  2706. bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2707. - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
  2708. second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2709. - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
  2710. PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
  2711. o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  2712. - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
  2713. to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
  2714. Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  2715. o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
  2716. - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
  2717. heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
  2718. memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
  2719. memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
  2720. Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
  2721. Guido Vranken.
  2722. o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  2723. - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
  2724. regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
  2725. on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2726. - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
  2727. reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
  2728. fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  2729. o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  2730. - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
  2731. request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  2732. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  2733. - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
  2734. DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
  2735. bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2736. - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
  2737. TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
  2738. bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  2739. o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
  2740. - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
  2741. field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
  2742. 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  2743. o Documentation:
  2744. - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
  2745. manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
  2746. - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
  2747. MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
  2748. Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
  2749. Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
  2750. bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
  2751. authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
  2752. directory support should also be much improved.
  2753. o New system requirements:
  2754. - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
  2755. implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
  2756. 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
  2757. longer runs with, these versions.
  2758. - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
  2759. type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
  2760. this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
  2761. ticket 18184.
  2762. - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
  2763. later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
  2764. building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
  2765. distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
  2766. upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
  2767. o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
  2768. - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
  2769. a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
  2770. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
  2771. Reported by Guido Vranken.
  2772. o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
  2773. - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
  2774. bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
  2775. ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
  2776. bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
  2777. o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  2778. - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
  2779. use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
  2780. sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  2781. o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
  2782. - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
  2783. Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2784. - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
  2785. rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2786. o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
  2787. - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
  2788. configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
  2789. "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
  2790. switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
  2791. compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2792. Patch by weasel.
  2793. o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
  2794. - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
  2795. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  2796. o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
  2797. - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
  2798. bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
  2799. Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
  2800. patch by teor.
  2801. o Major bugfixes (voting):
  2802. - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
  2803. Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
  2804. some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
  2805. codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
  2806. on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2807. - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
  2808. include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
  2809. thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
  2810. Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2811. - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
  2812. entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
  2813. authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
  2814. router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
  2815. keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
  2816. 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2817. o Minor features (security, win32):
  2818. - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
  2819. attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
  2820. by teor.
  2821. o Minor features (bug-resistance):
  2822. - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
  2823. corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
  2824. assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
  2825. o Minor features (build):
  2826. - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
  2827. as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
  2828. Steven Chamberlain.
  2829. o Minor features (code hardening):
  2830. - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
  2831. level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
  2832. terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
  2833. with Flawfinder.
  2834. o Minor features (crypto):
  2835. - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
  2836. p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
  2837. ticket 18221.
  2838. o Minor features (geoip):
  2839. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  2840. Country database.
  2841. o Minor features (hidden service directory):
  2842. - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
  2843. to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
  2844. check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
  2845. "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
  2846. o Minor features (IPv6):
  2847. - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
  2848. to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
  2849. - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
  2850. avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
  2851. - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
  2852. "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
  2853. "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
  2854. o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  2855. - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
  2856. Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
  2857. but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
  2858. while fixing 18548.
  2859. o Minor features (robustness):
  2860. - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
  2861. Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
  2862. frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
  2863. o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
  2864. - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
  2865. Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
  2866. directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
  2867. operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
  2868. However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
  2869. socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
  2870. Patch by weasel.
  2871. o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
  2872. - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
  2873. change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
  2874. configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
  2875. 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
  2876. o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
  2877. - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
  2878. addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
  2879. 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
  2880. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  2881. - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
  2882. testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
  2883. on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  2884. - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
  2885. exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
  2886. 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  2887. - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
  2888. explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
  2889. 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
  2890. o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
  2891. - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
  2892. bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
  2893. successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
  2894. 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  2895. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  2896. - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
  2897. avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
  2898. by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
  2899. on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2900. o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
  2901. - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
  2902. ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  2903. o Minor bugfixes (containers):
  2904. - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
  2905. 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
  2906. the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  2907. o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  2908. - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
  2909. cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
  2910. queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
  2911. best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
  2912. that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  2913. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  2914. - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
  2915. wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
  2916. on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
  2917. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
  2918. - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
  2919. server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
  2920. which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
  2921. 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
  2922. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
  2923. - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
  2924. requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
  2925. requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
  2926. directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
  2927. because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
  2928. all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
  2929. The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
  2930. pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
  2931. on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  2932. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
  2933. - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
  2934. both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
  2935. UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  2936. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
  2937. - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
  2938. publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
  2939. o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  2940. - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
  2941. syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
  2942. Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  2943. - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
  2944. enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
  2945. start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  2946. - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
  2947. setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
  2948. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  2949. - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
  2950. consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
  2951. 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  2952. - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
  2953. Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
  2954. - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
  2955. Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
  2956. bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
  2957. Christian, patch by teor.
  2958. o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
  2959. - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
  2960. in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
  2961. 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
  2962. by teor.
  2963. - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
  2964. Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
  2965. patch by "cypherpunks".
  2966. - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
  2967. on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  2968. - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
  2969. 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  2970. o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
  2971. - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
  2972. part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
  2973. Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
  2974. o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
  2975. - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
  2976. Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
  2977. by karsten.
  2978. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  2979. - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
  2980. enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
  2981. to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
  2982. unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
  2983. Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  2984. o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
  2985. - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
  2986. on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
  2987. 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
  2988. o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
  2989. - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
  2990. passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
  2991. 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
  2992. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  2993. - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
  2994. which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
  2995. 17744. Patch from zerosion.
  2996. - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
  2997. inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
  2998. the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
  2999. - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
  3000. actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
  3001. o Documentation:
  3002. - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
  3003. Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
  3004. Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
  3005. o Removed features:
  3006. - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
  3007. Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
  3008. and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
  3009. o Testing:
  3010. - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
  3011. the unit tests.
  3012. - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
  3013. solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
  3014. Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
  3015. Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
  3016. includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
  3017. versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
  3018. notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
  3019. o Major features (security, Linux):
  3020. - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
  3021. can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
  3022. Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
  3023. ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
  3024. new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
  3025. o Major features (directory system):
  3026. - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
  3027. first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
  3028. reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
  3029. or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
  3030. should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
  3031. 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
  3032. "mikeperry" and "teor".
  3033. - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
  3034. in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
  3035. Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
  3036. and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
  3037. 15775. Patch by "teor".
  3038. Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
  3039. "gsathya", and "karsten".
  3040. - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
  3041. (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
  3042. relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
  3043. directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
  3044. disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
  3045. ticket 12538.
  3046. o Major key updates:
  3047. - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
  3048. it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
  3049. by "teor".
  3050. o Minor features (security, clock):
  3051. - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
  3052. state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
  3053. consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
  3054. "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
  3055. o Minor features (security, exit policies):
  3056. - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
  3057. default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
  3058. addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
  3059. addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
  3060. 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  3061. o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
  3062. - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
  3063. a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
  3064. Implements ticket 17026.
  3065. - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
  3066. Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
  3067. Implements feature 17986.
  3068. - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
  3069. OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
  3070. from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
  3071. - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
  3072. zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
  3073. bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
  3074. patch by "teor".
  3075. o Minor features (security, RNG):
  3076. - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
  3077. positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
  3078. internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
  3079. - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
  3080. seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
  3081. of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
  3082. stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
  3083. entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
  3084. - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
  3085. generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
  3086. ticket 13696.
  3087. o Minor features (accounting):
  3088. - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
  3089. only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
  3090. limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
  3091. Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
  3092. o Minor features (build):
  3093. - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
  3094. force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
  3095. patch from "cypherpunks."
  3096. - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
  3097. development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
  3098. 17549, 17921, and 17984.
  3099. o Minor features (controller):
  3100. - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
  3101. tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
  3102. - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
  3103. service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
  3104. descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
  3105. - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
  3106. controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
  3107. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
  3108. exit policies.
  3109. o Minor features (crypto):
  3110. - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
  3111. George Tankersley.
  3112. - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
  3113. - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
  3114. we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
  3115. the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
  3116. up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
  3117. - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
  3118. based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
  3119. Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  3120. o Minor features (directory downloads):
  3121. - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
  3122. busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
  3123. for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
  3124. 17864; patch by "teor".
  3125. - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
  3126. directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
  3127. fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
  3128. o Minor features (geoip):
  3129. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
  3130. Country database.
  3131. o Minor features (IPv6):
  3132. - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
  3133. FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
  3134. authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
  3135. directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
  3136. from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
  3137. - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
  3138. - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
  3139. - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
  3140. almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
  3141. - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
  3142. directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
  3143. ticket 6027.
  3144. - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
  3145. 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  3146. - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
  3147. 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
  3148. o Minor features (logging):
  3149. - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
  3150. identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
  3151. be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
  3152. it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
  3153. ticket 17194.
  3154. o Minor features (portability):
  3155. - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
  3156. patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
  3157. o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
  3158. - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
  3159. subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
  3160. efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
  3161. types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
  3162. ticket 17950.
  3163. - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
  3164. fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
  3165. API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
  3166. find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
  3167. Resolves ticket 17951.
  3168. o Minor features (replay cache):
  3169. - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
  3170. feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
  3171. o Minor features (unix file permissions):
  3172. - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
  3173. needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
  3174. CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
  3175. Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  3176. - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
  3177. filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
  3178. root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
  3179. need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
  3180. CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
  3181. Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  3182. - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
  3183. 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
  3184. Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
  3185. o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
  3186. - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
  3187. logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
  3188. from "unixninja92".
  3189. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  3190. - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
  3191. have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
  3192. bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  3193. - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
  3194. according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
  3195. on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  3196. - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
  3197. bugfix on 0.0.6.
  3198. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  3199. - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
  3200. on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
  3201. 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  3202. - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
  3203. it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
  3204. 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3205. - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
  3206. on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  3207. - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
  3208. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
  3209. - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
  3210. that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
  3211. 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
  3212. - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
  3213. build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  3214. - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
  3215. on 0.0.2pre8.
  3216. - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
  3217. Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  3218. o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
  3219. - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
  3220. 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  3221. o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
  3222. - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
  3223. rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
  3224. 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  3225. o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
  3226. - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
  3227. Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  3228. o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  3229. - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
  3230. seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  3231. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  3232. - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
  3233. instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
  3234. with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
  3235. need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
  3236. der Woerdt.
  3237. - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
  3238. addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  3239. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  3240. - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
  3241. presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
  3242. on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  3243. o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  3244. - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
  3245. before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
  3246. descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
  3247. longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
  3248. on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
  3249. o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
  3250. - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
  3251. ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
  3252. then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
  3253. 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
  3254. o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
  3255. - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
  3256. it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
  3257. on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  3258. o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
  3259. - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
  3260. functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
  3261. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  3262. - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
  3263. zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
  3264. conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
  3265. cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
  3266. on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  3267. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  3268. - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
  3269. with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
  3270. string against a constant, compare it to the output of
  3271. format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
  3272. 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  3273. - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
  3274. localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
  3275. bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
  3276. - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
  3277. on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  3278. - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
  3279. tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  3280. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  3281. - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
  3282. policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
  3283. ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
  3284. - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
  3285. into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
  3286. freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
  3287. currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
  3288. - Clean up a little duplicated code in
  3289. crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
  3290. from "pfrankw".
  3291. - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
  3292. from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
  3293. attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
  3294. avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
  3295. ticket 17590.
  3296. - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
  3297. instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
  3298. launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
  3299. simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
  3300. launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
  3301. ticket 17589
  3302. - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
  3303. use them. Closes ticket 17926.
  3304. o Documentation:
  3305. - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
  3306. line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
  3307. - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
  3308. - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
  3309. - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
  3310. - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
  3311. whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
  3312. issue 17392.
  3313. o Removed features:
  3314. - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
  3315. versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
  3316. the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
  3317. Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
  3318. patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
  3319. o Testing:
  3320. - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
  3321. returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
  3322. (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
  3323. - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
  3324. 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
  3325. - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
  3326. batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
  3327. - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
  3328. portion of ticket 16831.
  3329. - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
  3330. util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
  3331. 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
  3332. Ola Bini.
  3333. - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
  3334. Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
  3335. Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
  3336. Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
  3337. well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
  3338. o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
  3339. - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
  3340. guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
  3341. accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
  3342. flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
  3343. performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
  3344. by Mohsen Imani.
  3345. o Minor features (geoip):
  3346. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  3347. Country database.
  3348. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  3349. - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
  3350. This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
  3351. 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
  3352. - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
  3353. presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
  3354. o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  3355. - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
  3356. correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
  3357. 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
  3358. - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
  3359. rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
  3360. issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
  3361. 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3362. - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
  3363. bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3364. Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
  3365. The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
  3366. and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
  3367. tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
  3368. and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
  3369. exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
  3370. understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
  3371. and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
  3372. Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
  3373. on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
  3374. inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
  3375. humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
  3376. another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
  3377. efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
  3378. that would make him proud.
  3379. Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
  3380. The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
  3381. improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
  3382. hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
  3383. hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
  3384. improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
  3385. more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
  3386. of Tor invoke which others.
  3387. (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
  3388. Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
  3389. Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
  3390. fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
  3391. harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
  3392. bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
  3393. platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
  3394. release will the the official stable release.
  3395. o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
  3396. - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
  3397. beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
  3398. Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
  3399. systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
  3400. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  3401. o Major bugfixes (correctness):
  3402. - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
  3403. bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  3404. o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
  3405. - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
  3406. 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  3407. - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
  3408. 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
  3409. - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
  3410. Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
  3411. o Minor features (geoIP):
  3412. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  3413. Country database.
  3414. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  3415. - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
  3416. vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
  3417. - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
  3418. 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3419. - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
  3420. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
  3421. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  3422. - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
  3423. part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
  3424. Marcin Cieślak.
  3425. o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
  3426. - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
  3427. HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
  3428. bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
  3429. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  3430. - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
  3431. 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
  3432. - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
  3433. 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
  3434. - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
  3435. network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
  3436. address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
  3437. address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
  3438. - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
  3439. Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
  3440. Marcin Cieślak.
  3441. o Documentation:
  3442. - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
  3443. - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
  3444. ticket 17364.
  3445. Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
  3446. Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
  3447. contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
  3448. several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
  3449. Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
  3450. This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
  3451. 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
  3452. test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
  3453. connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
  3454. o Major features (security, hidden services):
  3455. - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
  3456. use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
  3457. attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
  3458. services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
  3459. single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
  3460. remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
  3461. See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
  3462. o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
  3463. - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
  3464. only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
  3465. option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
  3466. seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
  3467. usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
  3468. ticket 17135.
  3469. o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
  3470. - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
  3471. generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
  3472. available. Implements ticket 16535.
  3473. - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
  3474. using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
  3475. ticket 16533.
  3476. o Major features (performance testing):
  3477. - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
  3478. Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
  3479. by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
  3480. o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
  3481. - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
  3482. messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
  3483. failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
  3484. so many of these!
  3485. - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
  3486. or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
  3487. combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
  3488. Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
  3489. - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
  3490. passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
  3491. of ticket 16769.
  3492. - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
  3493. signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
  3494. o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
  3495. - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
  3496. 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
  3497. - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
  3498. Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
  3499. o Minor features (client-side privacy):
  3500. - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
  3501. lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
  3502. authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
  3503. applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
  3504. own. Implements feature 15482.
  3505. - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
  3506. SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  3507. o Minor features (compilation):
  3508. - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
  3509. unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
  3510. - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
  3511. built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
  3512. which started requiring ECC.
  3513. o Minor features (geoip):
  3514. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  3515. Country database.
  3516. o Minor features (hidden services):
  3517. - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
  3518. is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
  3519. drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
  3520. service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
  3521. - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
  3522. option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
  3523. track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
  3524. the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
  3525. ticket 15254.
  3526. - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
  3527. to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
  3528. were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
  3529. ticket 16389.
  3530. o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
  3531. - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
  3532. explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
  3533. "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
  3534. o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
  3535. - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
  3536. IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
  3537. addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
  3538. Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
  3539. o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
  3540. - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
  3541. produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
  3542. both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
  3543. of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  3544. - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
  3545. where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
  3546. behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
  3547. reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
  3548. including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
  3549. Related to ticket 16069.
  3550. - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
  3551. message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
  3552. IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
  3553. - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
  3554. message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
  3555. 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  3556. o Minor bugfixes (authority):
  3557. - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
  3558. Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3559. - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
  3560. cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
  3561. on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3562. - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
  3563. saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
  3564. bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3565. o Minor bugfixes (control port):
  3566. - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
  3567. number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
  3568. bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3569. o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  3570. - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
  3571. while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
  3572. 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
  3573. incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  3574. o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
  3575. - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
  3576. policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
  3577. - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
  3578. the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  3579. - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
  3580. TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
  3581. required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
  3582. way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
  3583. DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
  3584. particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
  3585. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3586. o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
  3587. - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
  3588. Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3589. o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  3590. - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
  3591. sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  3592. - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
  3593. seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3594. o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
  3595. - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
  3596. limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
  3597. 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
  3598. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  3599. - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
  3600. standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
  3601. of Tor ever.
  3602. - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
  3603. backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3604. - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
  3605. times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
  3606. simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
  3607. zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3608. - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
  3609. OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
  3610. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  3611. - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
  3612. shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
  3613. behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
  3614. or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
  3615. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3616. - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
  3617. predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
  3618. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3619. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  3620. - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
  3621. downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
  3622. immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
  3623. further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
  3624. - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
  3625. crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
  3626. - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
  3627. function. Closes ticket 16763.
  3628. - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
  3629. appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
  3630. suite of other microdesc functions.
  3631. - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
  3632. directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
  3633. - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
  3634. signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
  3635. simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
  3636. - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
  3637. put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
  3638. these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
  3639. change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
  3640. functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
  3641. ticket 16695.
  3642. - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
  3643. that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
  3644. they are broken.
  3645. - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
  3646. o Documentation:
  3647. - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
  3648. than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
  3649. - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
  3650. to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
  3651. on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  3652. o Removed code:
  3653. - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
  3654. distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
  3655. https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
  3656. used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
  3657. confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
  3658. Closes ticket 13338.
  3659. - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
  3660. connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
  3661. 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
  3662. their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
  3663. and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
  3664. in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
  3665. o Testing:
  3666. - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
  3667. tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
  3668. to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
  3669. test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
  3670. (chutney). Patches by "teor".
  3671. - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
  3672. by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
  3673. by "teor".
  3674. - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
  3675. send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
  3676. change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
  3677. work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
  3678. - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
  3679. produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
  3680. other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
  3681. our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
  3682. - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
  3683. tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
  3684. - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
  3685. network before we begin.
  3686. - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
  3687. chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
  3688. - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
  3689. functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
  3690. - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
  3691. (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
  3692. - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
  3693. stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
  3694. Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
  3695. This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
  3696. features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
  3697. points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
  3698. algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
  3699. offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
  3700. Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
  3701. descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
  3702. support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
  3703. o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
  3704. - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
  3705. elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
  3706. that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
  3707. signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
  3708. These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
  3709. Implements part of ticket 12498.
  3710. - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
  3711. RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
  3712. - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
  3713. used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
  3714. vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
  3715. - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
  3716. part of ticket 12498.
  3717. - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
  3718. feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
  3719. key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
  3720. key). Closes ticket 13642.
  3721. o Major features (Hidden services):
  3722. - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
  3723. specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
  3724. is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
  3725. service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
  3726. visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
  3727. ticket 4862.
  3728. - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
  3729. introduction points, which used to change the number of
  3730. introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
  3731. connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
  3732. o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
  3733. - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
  3734. keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
  3735. allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
  3736. of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
  3737. RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
  3738. o Major features (performance):
  3739. - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
  3740. public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
  3741. Implements ticket 16467.
  3742. - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
  3743. optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
  3744. public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
  3745. ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
  3746. o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
  3747. - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
  3748. isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
  3749. was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
  3750. connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
  3751. 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
  3752. o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
  3753. - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
  3754. client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
  3755. 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
  3756. regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
  3757. we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
  3758. some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
  3759. of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
  3760. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3761. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  3762. - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
  3763. extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
  3764. Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
  3765. changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
  3766. the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
  3767. reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
  3768. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  3769. o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
  3770. - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
  3771. tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
  3772. limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
  3773. file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
  3774. error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  3775. o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
  3776. - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
  3777. of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
  3778. bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
  3779. by "cypherpunks_backup".
  3780. - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
  3781. connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
  3782. service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
  3783. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  3784. o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
  3785. - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
  3786. For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
  3787. HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
  3788. attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
  3789. require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
  3790. uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
  3791. o Minor features (client):
  3792. - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
  3793. character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
  3794. the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
  3795. ticket 16430.
  3796. - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
  3797. allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
  3798. using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
  3799. fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  3800. - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
  3801. SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
  3802. socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
  3803. ticket 15220.
  3804. o Minor features (control protocol):
  3805. - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
  3806. the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
  3807. o Minor features (directory authorities):
  3808. - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
  3809. and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
  3810. "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
  3811. running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
  3812. Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
  3813. o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
  3814. - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  3815. - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  3816. o Minor features (hidden services):
  3817. - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
  3818. "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
  3819. limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
  3820. optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
  3821. of ticket 16052.
  3822. o Minor features (portability):
  3823. - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
  3824. failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
  3825. condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
  3826. o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
  3827. - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
  3828. installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
  3829. 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  3830. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  3831. - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
  3832. missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
  3833. bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  3834. o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
  3835. - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  3836. A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  3837. uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  3838. its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  3839. when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  3840. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  3841. - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
  3842. configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
  3843. 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3844. - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
  3845. hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
  3846. 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3847. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  3848. - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
  3849. defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  3850. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
  3851. - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
  3852. these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
  3853. on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
  3854. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
  3855. - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
  3856. renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
  3857. syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
  3858. Peter Palfrader.
  3859. - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
  3860. code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
  3861. Peter Palfrader.
  3862. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  3863. - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
  3864. the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
  3865. from "cypherpunks".
  3866. o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
  3867. - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
  3868. configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3869. - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
  3870. These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
  3871. helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  3872. o Minor bugfixes (tests):
  3873. - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
  3874. Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3875. o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
  3876. - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
  3877. 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
  3878. o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
  3879. - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
  3880. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3881. - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
  3882. Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3883. - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
  3884. 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
  3885. invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
  3886. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
  3887. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  3888. - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
  3889. to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
  3890. - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
  3891. haven't supported that in ages.
  3892. - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
  3893. testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
  3894. "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
  3895. due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
  3896. o Documentation:
  3897. - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
  3898. torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
  3899. of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
  3900. files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
  3901. compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
  3902. ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
  3903. o Removed features:
  3904. - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
  3905. for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
  3906. available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
  3907. negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
  3908. P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
  3909. P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
  3910. - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
  3911. on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
  3912. later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
  3913. more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
  3914. OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
  3915. cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
  3916. clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
  3917. - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
  3918. store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
  3919. - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
  3920. authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
  3921. o Testing:
  3922. - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
  3923. undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
  3924. detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
  3925. Closes ticket 15817.
  3926. - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
  3927. - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
  3928. extensive tests.
  3929. - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
  3930. default as a part of "make check".
  3931. - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
  3932. test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
  3933. and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
  3934. and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
  3935. ticket 16189.
  3936. Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
  3937. Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
  3938. service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
  3939. fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
  3940. Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
  3941. of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
  3942. o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
  3943. - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
  3944. client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
  3945. 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
  3946. regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
  3947. we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
  3948. some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
  3949. of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
  3950. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  3951. o Major bugfixes (stability):
  3952. - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
  3953. of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
  3954. bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
  3955. by "cypherpunks_backup".
  3956. - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
  3957. connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
  3958. service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
  3959. on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  3960. o Minor features (geoip):
  3961. - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  3962. - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  3963. o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
  3964. - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
  3965. A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
  3966. uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
  3967. its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
  3968. when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
  3969. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  3970. - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
  3971. these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
  3972. on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
  3973. Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
  3974. Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
  3975. requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
  3976. bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
  3977. should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
  3978. o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
  3979. - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
  3980. isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
  3981. being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
  3982. was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
  3983. by "jojelino".
  3984. o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
  3985. - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
  3986. For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
  3987. HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
  3988. attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
  3989. takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
  3990. hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
  3991. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  3992. - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
  3993. installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
  3994. 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  3995. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  3996. - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
  3997. secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
  3998. bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
  3999. - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
  4000. code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
  4001. Peter Palfrader.
  4002. o Minor bugfixes (tests):
  4003. - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
  4004. 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
  4005. Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
  4006. Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
  4007. fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
  4008. authorities should upgrade.
  4009. o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  4010. - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
  4011. flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
  4012. can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
  4013. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  4014. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
  4015. - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  4016. a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  4017. on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  4018. o Minor features (geoip):
  4019. - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  4020. - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4021. Country database.
  4022. Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
  4023. Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
  4024. includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
  4025. versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
  4026. notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
  4027. the hidden services subsystem.
  4028. o New system requirements:
  4029. - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
  4030. before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
  4031. ticket 15248.
  4032. o Major features (controller):
  4033. - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
  4034. and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
  4035. ticket 6411.
  4036. - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
  4037. commands to get information about hidden services created via the
  4038. controller. Part of ticket 6411.
  4039. - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
  4040. descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
  4041. - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
  4042. ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
  4043. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  4044. - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
  4045. flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
  4046. can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
  4047. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  4048. o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
  4049. - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
  4050. happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
  4051. hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
  4052. fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
  4053. o Minor features (command-line interface):
  4054. - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
  4055. Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  4056. - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
  4057. as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
  4058. o Minor features (controller):
  4059. - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
  4060. output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
  4061. present. Implements ticket 14840.
  4062. - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
  4063. retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
  4064. Closes ticket 14845.
  4065. - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
  4066. descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
  4067. demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
  4068. o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
  4069. - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
  4070. introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
  4071. same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
  4072. o Minor features (geoip):
  4073. - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  4074. - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4075. Country database.
  4076. o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
  4077. - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
  4078. when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
  4079. cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
  4080. making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
  4081. clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
  4082. Closes ticket 15745.
  4083. o Minor features (logging):
  4084. - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
  4085. tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
  4086. ticket 15026.
  4087. o Minor features (pluggable transports):
  4088. - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
  4089. attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
  4090. pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
  4091. ticket 15471.
  4092. - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
  4093. stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
  4094. terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
  4095. can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
  4096. Resolves ticket 15435.
  4097. o Minor features (testing):
  4098. - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
  4099. memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
  4100. - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
  4101. files. Closes ticket 15180.
  4102. - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
  4103. time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
  4104. of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
  4105. bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
  4106. - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
  4107. - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
  4108. automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
  4109. - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
  4110. We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
  4111. them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
  4112. This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
  4113. configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
  4114. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  4115. - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
  4116. clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
  4117. on 0.2.7.0-alpha.
  4118. o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
  4119. - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
  4120. write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
  4121. on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  4122. - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
  4123. stderr, not stdout.
  4124. o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
  4125. - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
  4126. AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
  4127. are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
  4128. currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
  4129. has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
  4130. consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
  4131. 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  4132. o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
  4133. - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
  4134. handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
  4135. on 0.1.1.16-rc.
  4136. - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
  4137. because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
  4138. unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
  4139. and 0.2.0.10.
  4140. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  4141. - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
  4142. a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
  4143. on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  4144. - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
  4145. service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  4146. o Minor bugfixes (interface):
  4147. - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
  4148. an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
  4149. and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
  4150. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  4151. o Minor bugfixes (logs):
  4152. - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
  4153. parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
  4154. 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
  4155. recent enough Clang.
  4156. o Minor bugfixes (network):
  4157. - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
  4158. lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
  4159. unsuitable for public communications.
  4160. o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  4161. - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
  4162. not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
  4163. being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
  4164. when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
  4165. Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
  4166. o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
  4167. - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
  4168. determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
  4169. previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
  4170. ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
  4171. where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
  4172. not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
  4173. issue discovered by CJ Ess.
  4174. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  4175. - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
  4176. bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
  4177. by "joelanders".
  4178. - Set the severity correctly when testing
  4179. get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
  4180. get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
  4181. instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
  4182. 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
  4183. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  4184. - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
  4185. separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
  4186. ticket 14710.
  4187. - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
  4188. report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
  4189. involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
  4190. - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
  4191. control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
  4192. o Documentation:
  4193. - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
  4194. the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
  4195. issue 15550.
  4196. - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
  4197. Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  4198. - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
  4199. Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
  4200. and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
  4201. o Removed code:
  4202. - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
  4203. and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
  4204. has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
  4205. be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
  4206. - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
  4207. Closes ticket 14922.
  4208. o Removed features:
  4209. - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
  4210. fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
  4211. secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
  4212. - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
  4213. complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
  4214. multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
  4215. including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
  4216. - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
  4217. that didn't know about microdescriptors.
  4218. - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
  4219. super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
  4220. Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
  4221. Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
  4222. could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
  4223. visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
  4224. possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  4225. This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
  4226. services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  4227. o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  4228. - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  4229. assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  4230. bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  4231. - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  4232. failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  4233. bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  4234. o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  4235. - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  4236. arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  4237. attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  4238. Resolves ticket 15515.
  4239. Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
  4240. Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
  4241. could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
  4242. visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
  4243. possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  4244. This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
  4245. services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  4246. o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  4247. - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  4248. assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  4249. bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  4250. - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  4251. failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  4252. bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  4253. o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  4254. - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  4255. arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  4256. attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  4257. Resolves ticket 15515.
  4258. Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
  4259. Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
  4260. attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
  4261. services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
  4262. should upgrade whenever packages become available.
  4263. This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
  4264. services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
  4265. o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
  4266. - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
  4267. assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
  4268. bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
  4269. - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
  4270. failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
  4271. bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
  4272. o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
  4273. - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
  4274. arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
  4275. attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
  4276. Resolves ticket 15515.
  4277. - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
  4278. when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
  4279. cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
  4280. ticket 11447.
  4281. Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
  4282. Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
  4283. It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
  4284. improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
  4285. sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
  4286. improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
  4287. higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
  4288. improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
  4289. should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
  4290. bugs should be addressed.
  4291. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  4292. - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
  4293. compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
  4294. bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  4295. Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
  4296. Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
  4297. the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
  4298. o Major bugfixes (client):
  4299. - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
  4300. clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
  4301. by "anonym".
  4302. o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  4303. - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
  4304. launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
  4305. that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
  4306. authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
  4307. 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  4308. o Major bugfixes (portability):
  4309. - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
  4310. related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
  4311. by "ruebezahl".
  4312. o Minor features (heartbeat):
  4313. - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
  4314. version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
  4315. know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
  4316. protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
  4317. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  4318. - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
  4319. easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
  4320. Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
  4321. Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
  4322. It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
  4323. couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
  4324. It also updates the list of directory authorities.
  4325. o Directory authority changes:
  4326. - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  4327. - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  4328. ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  4329. - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  4330. closes ticket 14487.
  4331. o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
  4332. - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
  4333. OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
  4334. in OSX 10.9.
  4335. o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
  4336. - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  4337. failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
  4338. buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  4339. 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
  4340. - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  4341. very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  4342. it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  4343. o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
  4344. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  4345. Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  4346. diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  4347. o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  4348. - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
  4349. crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
  4350. 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
  4351. o Minor features (controller):
  4352. - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
  4353. bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
  4354. get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
  4355. o Minor features (geoip):
  4356. - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  4357. - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4358. Country database.
  4359. o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
  4360. - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
  4361. no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
  4362. 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  4363. - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
  4364. 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  4365. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  4366. - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
  4367. has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
  4368. Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
  4369. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  4370. - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
  4371. they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
  4372. been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
  4373. bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  4374. - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
  4375. issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
  4376. Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  4377. o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  4378. - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
  4379. from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  4380. o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
  4381. - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
  4382. a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
  4383. some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
  4384. uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
  4385. versions of Tor.
  4386. Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
  4387. Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
  4388. also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
  4389. and beyond.
  4390. o Directory authority changes:
  4391. - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  4392. - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  4393. ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  4394. - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  4395. closes ticket 14487.
  4396. o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
  4397. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  4398. Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  4399. diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  4400. o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
  4401. - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  4402. failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
  4403. buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  4404. 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
  4405. - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  4406. very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  4407. it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  4408. o Minor features (geoip):
  4409. - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  4410. - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4411. Country database.
  4412. Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
  4413. Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
  4414. attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
  4415. directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
  4416. introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
  4417. o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
  4418. - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
  4419. OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
  4420. in OSX 10.9.
  4421. o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
  4422. - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
  4423. failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
  4424. buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
  4425. 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
  4426. - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
  4427. very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
  4428. it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  4429. o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
  4430. - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
  4431. "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
  4432. on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  4433. o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  4434. - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
  4435. seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
  4436. on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  4437. - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
  4438. sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  4439. - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
  4440. crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
  4441. 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
  4442. o Minor features (controller):
  4443. - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
  4444. information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
  4445. noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
  4446. o Minor features (geoip):
  4447. - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
  4448. - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4449. Country database.
  4450. o Minor features (logs):
  4451. - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
  4452. ticket 14950.
  4453. o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
  4454. - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
  4455. with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
  4456. certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  4457. - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
  4458. for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
  4459. certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
  4460. time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
  4461. bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
  4462. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  4463. - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
  4464. on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  4465. - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
  4466. on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4467. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  4468. - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
  4469. have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
  4470. Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha.
  4471. - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
  4472. 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
  4473. - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
  4474. python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
  4475. from "cypherpunks".
  4476. - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
  4477. torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
  4478. by "reezer".
  4479. o Directory authority IP change:
  4480. - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
  4481. closes ticket 14487.
  4482. o Removed code:
  4483. - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
  4484. Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
  4485. in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
  4486. by "cypherpunks".
  4487. Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
  4488. Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
  4489. the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
  4490. makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
  4491. multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
  4492. AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
  4493. If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
  4494. the next version will be a release candidate.
  4495. o Deprecated versions:
  4496. - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
  4497. advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
  4498. o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
  4499. - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
  4500. applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
  4501. AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
  4502. ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
  4503. this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
  4504. ticket 12585.
  4505. - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
  4506. The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
  4507. Implements ticket 11485.
  4508. o Major features (changed defaults):
  4509. - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
  4510. relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
  4511. the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
  4512. the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
  4513. can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
  4514. stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
  4515. o Major features (directory system):
  4516. - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
  4517. server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
  4518. same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
  4519. especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
  4520. - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
  4521. connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
  4522. Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
  4523. - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
  4524. versions for different software packages. This allows packages
  4525. that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
  4526. notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
  4527. 227. Closes ticket 10395.
  4528. o Major features (guards):
  4529. - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
  4530. guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
  4531. guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
  4532. a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
  4533. months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
  4534. o Major features (performance):
  4535. - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
  4536. kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
  4537. sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
  4538. didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
  4539. work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
  4540. overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
  4541. where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
  4542. Implements ticket 9682.
  4543. o Major features (relay):
  4544. - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
  4545. to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
  4546. 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
  4547. o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
  4548. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
  4549. Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
  4550. diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  4551. o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
  4552. - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
  4553. recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
  4554. to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
  4555. passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
  4556. circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
  4557. 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
  4558. o Minor features (build):
  4559. - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
  4560. looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
  4561. Resolves ticket 13037.
  4562. o Minor features (controller):
  4563. - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
  4564. events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
  4565. ticket 8405.
  4566. - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
  4567. alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
  4568. SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
  4569. - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
  4570. bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
  4571. get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
  4572. o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
  4573. - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
  4574. descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
  4575. memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
  4576. service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
  4577. memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
  4578. fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
  4579. - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
  4580. MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
  4581. for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
  4582. o Minor features (geoip):
  4583. - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
  4584. GeoLite2 Country database.
  4585. o Minor features (guard nodes):
  4586. - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
  4587. minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
  4588. AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
  4589. o Minor features (hidden service):
  4590. - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
  4591. minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
  4592. hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
  4593. - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
  4594. services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
  4595. 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
  4596. unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
  4597. RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
  4598. o Minor features (interface):
  4599. - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
  4600. from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
  4601. the file system. Implements feature 13865.
  4602. o Minor features (logging):
  4603. - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
  4604. Resolves ticket 6852.
  4605. - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
  4606. reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
  4607. around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
  4608. ticket 13762.
  4609. - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
  4610. INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
  4611. o Minor features (stability):
  4612. - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
  4613. corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
  4614. ticket 11737.
  4615. o Minor features (systemd):
  4616. - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
  4617. support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
  4618. o Minor features (testing networks):
  4619. - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
  4620. and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
  4621. MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
  4622. keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
  4623. HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
  4624. time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
  4625. by "teor".
  4626. - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
  4627. TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
  4628. HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
  4629. connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
  4630. Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
  4631. o Minor features (tor2web mode):
  4632. - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
  4633. clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
  4634. used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
  4635. Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
  4636. o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
  4637. - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
  4638. DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
  4639. expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  4640. - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
  4641. reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
  4642. side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
  4643. bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  4644. o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
  4645. - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
  4646. no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
  4647. 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  4648. - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
  4649. 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  4650. - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
  4651. "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
  4652. on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  4653. - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
  4654. an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
  4655. must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
  4656. on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  4657. o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
  4658. - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
  4659. problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
  4660. bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
  4661. bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  4662. o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
  4663. - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
  4664. flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
  4665. Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
  4666. literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  4667. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  4668. - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
  4669. be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
  4670. tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
  4671. 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  4672. - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
  4673. 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
  4674. - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
  4675. Addresses ticket 14188.
  4676. - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
  4677. has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
  4678. Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
  4679. - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
  4680. is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
  4681. in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
  4682. - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
  4683. accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
  4684. 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4685. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  4686. - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
  4687. when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
  4688. we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
  4689. - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
  4690. 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  4691. - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
  4692. reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4693. o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
  4694. - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
  4695. they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
  4696. been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
  4697. bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  4698. - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
  4699. unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
  4700. 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  4701. - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
  4702. control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  4703. - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
  4704. issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
  4705. Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  4706. o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
  4707. - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
  4708. keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
  4709. on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
  4710. - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
  4711. is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
  4712. - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
  4713. - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
  4714. state, and key files.
  4715. - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
  4716. relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
  4717. on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  4718. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  4719. - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
  4720. points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
  4721. that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
  4722. circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  4723. - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
  4724. was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
  4725. replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  4726. - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
  4727. directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
  4728. 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4729. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  4730. - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
  4731. domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  4732. - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
  4733. on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  4734. - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
  4735. 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  4736. o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
  4737. - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
  4738. descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
  4739. - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
  4740. case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
  4741. 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  4742. o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
  4743. - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
  4744. the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
  4745. descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4746. - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
  4747. ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
  4748. bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4749. - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
  4750. missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
  4751. bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4752. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  4753. - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
  4754. will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
  4755. example Mac OS X.
  4756. - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
  4757. bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
  4758. o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
  4759. - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
  4760. Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
  4761. sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
  4762. bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  4763. o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
  4764. - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
  4765. write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
  4766. or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
  4767. on 0.1.0.2-rc.
  4768. o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
  4769. - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
  4770. Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
  4771. der Woerdt.
  4772. o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
  4773. - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
  4774. from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  4775. o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
  4776. - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
  4777. 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
  4778. - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
  4779. part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
  4780. - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
  4781. process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
  4782. Tomasz Torcz.
  4783. - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
  4784. support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
  4785. from "blueness".
  4786. o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
  4787. - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
  4788. unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
  4789. o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
  4790. - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
  4791. TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
  4792. on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  4793. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  4794. - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
  4795. a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
  4796. port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
  4797. to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
  4798. the past. Closes ticket 8546.
  4799. - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
  4800. multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
  4801. subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
  4802. issue 12376.
  4803. - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
  4804. only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
  4805. ticket 14202.
  4806. - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
  4807. directory server.
  4808. o Documentation:
  4809. - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
  4810. for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
  4811. - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
  4812. options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
  4813. - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
  4814. look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
  4815. o Downgraded warnings:
  4816. - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
  4817. ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
  4818. o Removed features:
  4819. - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
  4820. longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
  4821. - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
  4822. were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
  4823. no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
  4824. ticket 14848.
  4825. o Testing:
  4826. - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
  4827. global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4828. - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
  4829. that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
  4830. - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
  4831. (existing behavior).
  4832. - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
  4833. data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
  4834. - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
  4835. Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
  4836. Closes ticket 14107.
  4837. - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
  4838. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  4839. - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
  4840. binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
  4841. ticket 13243.
  4842. - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
  4843. Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
  4844. Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
  4845. Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
  4846. Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
  4847. It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
  4848. channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
  4849. increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
  4850. work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
  4851. This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
  4852. performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
  4853. Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
  4854. should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
  4855. o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
  4856. - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
  4857. to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
  4858. each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
  4859. sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
  4860. among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
  4861. This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
  4862. high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
  4863. transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
  4864. circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
  4865. (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
  4866. should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
  4867. the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
  4868. ticket 9262.
  4869. o Major features (hidden services):
  4870. - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
  4871. circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
  4872. Closes ticket 13667.
  4873. - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
  4874. gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
  4875. hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
  4876. an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
  4877. that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
  4878. a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
  4879. publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
  4880. the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
  4881. that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
  4882. proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
  4883. feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
  4884. o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
  4885. - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
  4886. have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
  4887. inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
  4888. manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
  4889. 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
  4890. Izquierdo Riera.
  4891. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  4892. - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
  4893. with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
  4894. Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
  4895. point would make the other introduction points get marked as
  4896. having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
  4897. o Directory authority changes:
  4898. - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
  4899. - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
  4900. ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
  4901. o Major removed features:
  4902. - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
  4903. running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
  4904. option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
  4905. running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
  4906. o Minor features (client):
  4907. - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
  4908. is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
  4909. Resolves ticket 13315.
  4910. o Minor features (controller):
  4911. - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
  4912. write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
  4913. feature 9503.
  4914. o Minor features (geoip):
  4915. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  4916. Country database.
  4917. o Minor features (hidden services):
  4918. - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
  4919. circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
  4920. hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
  4921. Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
  4922. - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
  4923. controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
  4924. feature 13212.
  4925. - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
  4926. directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
  4927. from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
  4928. o Minor features (systemd):
  4929. - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
  4930. startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
  4931. - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
  4932. of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
  4933. o Minor features (transparent proxy):
  4934. - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
  4935. and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
  4936. - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
  4937. support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
  4938. Izquierdo Riera.
  4939. o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
  4940. - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
  4941. a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
  4942. some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
  4943. uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
  4944. versions of Tor.
  4945. - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
  4946. just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
  4947. to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
  4948. ticket 14041.
  4949. o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
  4950. - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
  4951. computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
  4952. erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
  4953. have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
  4954. on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  4955. - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
  4956. even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
  4957. 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  4958. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  4959. - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
  4960. including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
  4961. char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
  4962. parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
  4963. on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  4964. - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
  4965. middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
  4966. on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  4967. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  4968. - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
  4969. circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
  4970. - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
  4971. at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
  4972. broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
  4973. - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
  4974. no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
  4975. 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  4976. - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
  4977. for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
  4978. whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
  4979. a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
  4980. directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
  4981. by "special".
  4982. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
  4983. - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
  4984. sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
  4985. by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
  4986. - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
  4987. enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
  4988. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  4989. - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
  4990. Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
  4991. with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
  4992. on 0.0.6rc3.
  4993. - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
  4994. correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  4995. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  4996. - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
  4997. both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
  4998. our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
  4999. on 0.0.2pre14.
  5000. o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
  5001. - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
  5002. the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
  5003. network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
  5004. been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
  5005. network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
  5006. by "teor".
  5007. - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
  5008. header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
  5009. promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
  5010. in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
  5011. and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  5012. - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
  5013. reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
  5014. all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
  5015. scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
  5016. bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
  5017. 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
  5018. - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
  5019. thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
  5020. wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
  5021. circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
  5022. - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
  5023. TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
  5024. ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
  5025. testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
  5026. on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  5027. - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
  5028. available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
  5029. build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
  5030. contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
  5031. spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
  5032. internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
  5033. circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
  5034. 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  5035. - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
  5036. TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
  5037. Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
  5038. Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
  5039. by "teor".
  5040. - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
  5041. networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
  5042. exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
  5043. networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
  5044. bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  5045. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  5046. - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
  5047. with a function instead.
  5048. - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
  5049. apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
  5050. Closes ticket 13172.
  5051. - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
  5052. ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
  5053. - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
  5054. state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
  5055. checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
  5056. - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
  5057. ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
  5058. confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
  5059. - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
  5060. constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
  5061. - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
  5062. implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
  5063. type trivially.
  5064. o Documentation:
  5065. - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
  5066. Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
  5067. - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
  5068. manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
  5069. - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
  5070. good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
  5071. all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
  5072. relays. Closes ticket 13381.
  5073. - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
  5074. it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
  5075. working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
  5076. guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
  5077. o Testing:
  5078. - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
  5079. functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
  5080. - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
  5081. - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
  5082. test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
  5083. bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
  5084. Closes 13678.
  5085. - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
  5086. by 'rl1987'.
  5087. Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
  5088. Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
  5089. includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
  5090. number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
  5091. than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
  5092. clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
  5093. we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
  5094. directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
  5095. of introducing infinite download loops.
  5096. This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
  5097. bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
  5098. with 0.2.5.x for now.
  5099. o New compiler and system requirements:
  5100. - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
  5101. language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
  5102. whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
  5103. designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
  5104. We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
  5105. number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
  5106. bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
  5107. - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
  5108. began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
  5109. threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
  5110. threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
  5111. holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
  5112. support. Resolves ticket 12439.
  5113. o Removed platform support:
  5114. - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
  5115. as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
  5116. Closes ticket 11446.
  5117. o Major features (bridges):
  5118. - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
  5119. transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
  5120. environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
  5121. ticket 8402.
  5122. o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
  5123. - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
  5124. service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
  5125. initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
  5126. ticket 13211.
  5127. o Major features (directory system):
  5128. - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
  5129. matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
  5130. Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
  5131. trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
  5132. o Major features (sample torrc):
  5133. - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
  5134. similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
  5135. possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
  5136. intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
  5137. Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
  5138. generally useful "sample torrc".
  5139. o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  5140. - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
  5141. currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  5142. o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
  5143. - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
  5144. directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
  5145. the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
  5146. microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  5147. o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
  5148. - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
  5149. crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
  5150. have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
  5151. o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
  5152. - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
  5153. temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
  5154. - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
  5155. buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
  5156. buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
  5157. o Minor features:
  5158. - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
  5159. congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
  5160. document. Implements feature 10427.
  5161. o Minor features (client):
  5162. - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
  5163. receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
  5164. without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
  5165. Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
  5166. o Minor features (directory authorities):
  5167. - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
  5168. Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
  5169. - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
  5170. argument more than once.
  5171. - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
  5172. votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
  5173. method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
  5174. likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
  5175. doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
  5176. method. Implements part of proposal 215.
  5177. o Minor features (logging):
  5178. - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
  5179. the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
  5180. Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
  5181. - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
  5182. we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
  5183. messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
  5184. logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
  5185. - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
  5186. appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
  5187. o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
  5188. - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
  5189. that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
  5190. obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
  5191. o Minor features (relay):
  5192. - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
  5193. getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
  5194. address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
  5195. Patch from "ra".
  5196. - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
  5197. AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
  5198. traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
  5199. Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
  5200. o Minor features (testing networks):
  5201. - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
  5202. the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
  5203. policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
  5204. effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
  5205. give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
  5206. ticket 13161.
  5207. o Minor features (validation):
  5208. - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
  5209. parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
  5210. Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
  5211. - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
  5212. localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
  5213. This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
  5214. even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
  5215. written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
  5216. o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
  5217. - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
  5218. recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
  5219. bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  5220. o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  5221. - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
  5222. plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
  5223. bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  5224. o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
  5225. - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
  5226. Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
  5227. from "teor".
  5228. - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
  5229. avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
  5230. under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
  5231. on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  5232. - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
  5233. 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  5234. - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
  5235. or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
  5236. visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  5237. - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
  5238. with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  5239. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  5240. - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
  5241. BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
  5242. 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  5243. - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
  5244. the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  5245. - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
  5246. responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
  5247. connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
  5248. o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
  5249. - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
  5250. because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
  5251. Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
  5252. as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
  5253. on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  5254. - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
  5255. that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
  5256. 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
  5257. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  5258. - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
  5259. "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
  5260. would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
  5261. bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
  5262. o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
  5263. - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
  5264. documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
  5265. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  5266. - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
  5267. extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
  5268. from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  5269. - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
  5270. Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
  5271. flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
  5272. looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
  5273. on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  5274. o Minor bugfixes (networking):
  5275. - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
  5276. than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
  5277. failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
  5278. bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  5279. o Minor bugfixes (relay):
  5280. - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
  5281. entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  5282. - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
  5283. new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
  5284. on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
  5285. o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
  5286. - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
  5287. testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  5288. - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
  5289. AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
  5290. fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  5291. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  5292. - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
  5293. SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
  5294. it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  5295. o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
  5296. - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
  5297. directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
  5298. bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  5299. o Minor bugfixes (windows):
  5300. - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
  5301. acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
  5302. occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
  5303. on 0.0.2pre26.
  5304. o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
  5305. - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
  5306. empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  5307. o Build fixes:
  5308. - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
  5309. again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  5310. - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
  5311. when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
  5312. --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
  5313. ticket 13228.
  5314. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  5315. - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
  5316. elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
  5317. ticket 12202.
  5318. - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
  5319. Resolves ticket 12205.
  5320. - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
  5321. then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
  5322. integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
  5323. - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
  5324. own SIZE_T_MAX.
  5325. - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
  5326. functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
  5327. in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
  5328. like 13163.
  5329. - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
  5330. tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
  5331. bug 13284.
  5332. - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
  5333. represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
  5334. booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
  5335. - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
  5336. or_options_t structure.
  5337. o Documentation:
  5338. - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
  5339. TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
  5340. message to point to this file when running out of sockets
  5341. operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
  5342. ticket 9708.
  5343. o Removed features:
  5344. - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
  5345. been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
  5346. - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
  5347. Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
  5348. weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
  5349. happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
  5350. consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
  5351. either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
  5352. algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
  5353. ticket 13126.
  5354. - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
  5355. clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
  5356. ntor handshake.
  5357. - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
  5358. used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
  5359. obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
  5360. - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
  5361. anymore, and ignore it.
  5362. o Testing:
  5363. - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
  5364. easily be tested; write some tests for it.
  5365. - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
  5366. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
  5367. - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
  5368. - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
  5369. parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
  5370. tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
  5371. - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
  5372. coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
  5373. lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
  5374. - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
  5375. unit tests.
  5376. - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
  5377. instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
  5378. with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
  5379. o Distribution (systemd):
  5380. - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
  5381. /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
  5382. only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
  5383. - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
  5384. can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
  5385. ticket 12939.
  5386. - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
  5387. service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
  5388. o Removed features (directory authorities):
  5389. - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
  5390. affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
  5391. rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
  5392. 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
  5393. - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
  5394. the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
  5395. - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
  5396. The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
  5397. - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
  5398. flag anymore.
  5399. - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
  5400. methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
  5401. obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
  5402. served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
  5403. ticket 10163.
  5404. o Testing (test-network.sh):
  5405. - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
  5406. support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
  5407. bug 13161.
  5408. - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
  5409. bug 13331.
  5410. - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
  5411. delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
  5412. Partially implements ticket 13161.
  5413. Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
  5414. Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
  5415. It adds several new security features, including improved
  5416. denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
  5417. options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
  5418. (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
  5419. resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
  5420. should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
  5421. OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
  5422. system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
  5423. of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
  5424. transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
  5425. and features mentioned below.
  5426. This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
  5427. have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
  5428. o Deprecated versions:
  5429. - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
  5430. attention for some while.
  5431. Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
  5432. Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
  5433. series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
  5434. (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
  5435. bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
  5436. (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
  5437. o Major security fixes:
  5438. - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
  5439. today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
  5440. for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
  5441. o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
  5442. - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
  5443. 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
  5444. 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
  5445. o Minor bugfixes:
  5446. - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
  5447. tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
  5448. breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
  5449. Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  5450. o Compilation fixes:
  5451. - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
  5452. patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
  5453. implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
  5454. o Downgraded warnings:
  5455. - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
  5456. from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
  5457. Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
  5458. Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
  5459. (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
  5460. bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
  5461. (which does affect Tor).
  5462. o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
  5463. - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
  5464. today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
  5465. for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
  5466. o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
  5467. - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
  5468. 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
  5469. 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
  5470. Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
  5471. Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
  5472. series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
  5473. connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
  5474. the directory authorities.
  5475. o Major bugfixes:
  5476. - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
  5477. point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
  5478. the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
  5479. they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
  5480. the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
  5481. point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
  5482. the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
  5483. services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
  5484. that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
  5485. on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
  5486. some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
  5487. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  5488. o Directory authority changes:
  5489. - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  5490. Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
  5491. Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
  5492. connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
  5493. the directory authorities.
  5494. o Major bugfixes:
  5495. - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
  5496. point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
  5497. the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
  5498. they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
  5499. the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
  5500. point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
  5501. the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
  5502. services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
  5503. that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
  5504. on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
  5505. some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
  5506. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  5507. o Directory authority changes:
  5508. - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  5509. o Minor features (geoip):
  5510. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  5511. Country database.
  5512. Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
  5513. Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
  5514. release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
  5515. testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
  5516. candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
  5517. o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
  5518. - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
  5519. When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
  5520. conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
  5521. cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
  5522. DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
  5523. for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  5524. - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
  5525. for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
  5526. rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
  5527. when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
  5528. her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
  5529. controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
  5530. bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5531. - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
  5532. process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
  5533. o Major bugfixes (relay):
  5534. - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
  5535. fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  5536. Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
  5537. - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
  5538. proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
  5539. channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
  5540. handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  5541. o Minor features (bridge):
  5542. - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
  5543. cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
  5544. o Minor features (geoip):
  5545. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  5546. Country database.
  5547. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  5548. - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
  5549. provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
  5550. since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
  5551. its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
  5552. at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
  5553. Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  5554. - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
  5555. to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
  5556. about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
  5557. bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
  5558. - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
  5559. cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
  5560. - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
  5561. their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
  5562. on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  5563. - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
  5564. recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
  5565. bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  5566. - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
  5567. them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
  5568. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  5569. - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
  5570. bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5571. - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
  5572. controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
  5573. by "teor".
  5574. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  5575. - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
  5576. bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
  5577. - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
  5578. 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
  5579. - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
  5580. routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
  5581. Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
  5582. - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
  5583. analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
  5584. easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
  5585. ticket 13036.
  5586. o Distribution (systemd):
  5587. - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
  5588. file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
  5589. - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
  5590. current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
  5591. expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
  5592. torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
  5593. on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
  5594. /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
  5595. "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
  5596. ticket 12731.
  5597. o Documentation:
  5598. - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
  5599. several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
  5600. Matt Pagan.
  5601. - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
  5602. ticket 12878.
  5603. Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
  5604. Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
  5605. risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
  5606. us closer to a release candidate.
  5607. o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
  5608. - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
  5609. NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
  5610. guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
  5611. parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
  5612. o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
  5613. - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
  5614. implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
  5615. implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
  5616. a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
  5617. appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
  5618. Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
  5619. implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
  5620. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
  5621. Adam Langley.
  5622. o Major bugfixes:
  5623. - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
  5624. construction operations are disabled (because the network is
  5625. disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
  5626. Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
  5627. were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
  5628. 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
  5629. became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
  5630. to build circuits".
  5631. o Minor features:
  5632. - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
  5633. network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
  5634. weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
  5635. current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
  5636. This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
  5637. down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
  5638. performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
  5639. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  5640. Country database.
  5641. - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
  5642. o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
  5643. - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
  5644. cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
  5645. due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
  5646. the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
  5647. the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
  5648. - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
  5649. via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
  5650. microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
  5651. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  5652. o Minor bugfixes:
  5653. - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
  5654. configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
  5655. Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
  5656. 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
  5657. Gunasekaran.
  5658. - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
  5659. LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
  5660. 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
  5661. Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
  5662. Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
  5663. guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
  5664. Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
  5665. o Major features:
  5666. - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
  5667. decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
  5668. of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
  5669. where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
  5670. connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
  5671. load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
  5672. - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
  5673. NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
  5674. guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
  5675. parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
  5676. o Major bugfixes:
  5677. - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
  5678. implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
  5679. implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
  5680. a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
  5681. appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
  5682. Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
  5683. implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
  5684. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
  5685. Adam Langley.
  5686. o Minor bugfixes:
  5687. - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
  5688. cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
  5689. due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
  5690. the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
  5691. the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
  5692. - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
  5693. via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
  5694. microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
  5695. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  5696. - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
  5697. module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
  5698. used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
  5699. 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
  5700. o Minor features:
  5701. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  5702. Country database.
  5703. Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
  5704. Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
  5705. 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
  5706. performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
  5707. seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
  5708. diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
  5709. track down.
  5710. o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
  5711. - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
  5712. close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
  5713. at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
  5714. sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
  5715. connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
  5716. their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
  5717. last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
  5718. ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
  5719. minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
  5720. against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
  5721. from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
  5722. Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5723. o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
  5724. - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
  5725. fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
  5726. exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
  5727. on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  5728. o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
  5729. - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
  5730. identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
  5731. This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
  5732. where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
  5733. microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
  5734. consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
  5735. use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
  5736. selectively disable some client use of target relays by
  5737. constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
  5738. same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
  5739. list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
  5740. attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
  5741. router's identity is not forgeable.
  5742. o Major bugfixes (relay):
  5743. - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
  5744. descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
  5745. incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
  5746. circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
  5747. - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
  5748. forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
  5749. cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
  5750. circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
  5751. bugfix on every version of Tor.
  5752. o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
  5753. - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
  5754. to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
  5755. process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
  5756. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  5757. o Minor features (diagnostic):
  5758. - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
  5759. hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
  5760. help diagnose bug 7164.
  5761. - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
  5762. that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
  5763. a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
  5764. - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
  5765. Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
  5766. bug 11233.
  5767. - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
  5768. handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
  5769. - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
  5770. where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
  5771. - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
  5772. try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
  5773. circuits sometimes do not get closed.
  5774. o Minor features (security, memory management):
  5775. - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
  5776. disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
  5777. --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
  5778. disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
  5779. on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
  5780. exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
  5781. o Minor features (security):
  5782. - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
  5783. circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
  5784. were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
  5785. in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
  5786. o Minor features (build):
  5787. - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
  5788. support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
  5789. Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
  5790. o Minor features (other):
  5791. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  5792. Country database.
  5793. o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
  5794. - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
  5795. this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
  5796. make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
  5797. bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  5798. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  5799. - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
  5800. the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
  5801. build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
  5802. whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
  5803. running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
  5804. whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
  5805. forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
  5806. Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  5807. - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
  5808. removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
  5809. 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
  5810. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  5811. - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
  5812. on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  5813. - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
  5814. TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
  5815. on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
  5816. - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
  5817. treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
  5818. bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
  5819. - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
  5820. 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  5821. - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
  5822. implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
  5823. arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
  5824. 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
  5825. - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
  5826. bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
  5827. - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
  5828. on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  5829. o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
  5830. - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
  5831. make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
  5832. all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
  5833. send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
  5834. finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
  5835. 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  5836. o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
  5837. - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
  5838. 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5839. - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
  5840. sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5841. - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
  5842. ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5843. - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
  5844. support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
  5845. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5846. - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
  5847. DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
  5848. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5849. - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
  5850. the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
  5851. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5852. - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
  5853. --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
  5854. 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  5855. - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
  5856. reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
  5857. 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5858. - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
  5859. its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
  5860. crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
  5861. on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5862. - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
  5863. enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
  5864. 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
  5865. - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
  5866. time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
  5867. authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5868. - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
  5869. alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
  5870. bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5871. - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
  5872. User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
  5873. 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5874. - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
  5875. to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
  5876. filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
  5877. for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
  5878. every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
  5879. bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5880. o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
  5881. - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
  5882. default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
  5883. Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
  5884. implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
  5885. had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  5886. - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
  5887. transport-using configuration when we already have cached
  5888. descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
  5889. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  5890. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  5891. - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
  5892. when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
  5893. set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
  5894. time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  5895. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  5896. - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
  5897. as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
  5898. no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
  5899. on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  5900. - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
  5901. with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
  5902. only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
  5903. Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  5904. - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
  5905. over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
  5906. by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
  5907. 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
  5908. o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
  5909. - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
  5910. (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
  5911. string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
  5912. on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
  5913. o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
  5914. - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
  5915. don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
  5916. it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
  5917. versions. Found by "skruffy".
  5918. - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
  5919. error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
  5920. bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
  5921. by "cypherpunks".
  5922. o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
  5923. - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
  5924. this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
  5925. error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
  5926. on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
  5927. o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
  5928. - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
  5929. zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
  5930. otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
  5931. on 0.0.8pre1.
  5932. - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
  5933. using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
  5934. v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
  5935. by "starlight".
  5936. - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
  5937. against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
  5938. a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  5939. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  5940. - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
  5941. Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  5942. - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
  5943. successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
  5944. fixes bug 10616.
  5945. o Distribution:
  5946. - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
  5947. Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
  5948. others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
  5949. Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
  5950. o Documentation:
  5951. - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
  5952. names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
  5953. directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
  5954. V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
  5955. ticket 11634.
  5956. - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
  5957. for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
  5958. not "status".)
  5959. - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
  5960. directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
  5961. caches don't get confused.
  5962. o Package cleanup:
  5963. - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
  5964. an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
  5965. Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
  5966. seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
  5967. ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
  5968. o Removed code:
  5969. - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
  5970. and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
  5971. - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
  5972. exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
  5973. 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
  5974. brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
  5975. hidden services.
  5976. Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
  5977. Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
  5978. alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
  5979. keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
  5980. choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
  5981. a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
  5982. of RAM, and several others.
  5983. o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  5984. - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
  5985. vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
  5986. don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
  5987. doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
  5988. o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
  5989. - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
  5990. fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
  5991. exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
  5992. on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  5993. o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  5994. - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
  5995. uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
  5996. acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
  5997. some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
  5998. typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
  5999. 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6000. - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
  6001. which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
  6002. 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
  6003. list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
  6004. Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
  6005. CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
  6006. AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
  6007. - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
  6008. Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
  6009. ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
  6010. advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
  6011. Resolves ticket 11438.
  6012. o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
  6013. - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
  6014. trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
  6015. otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
  6016. it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
  6017. bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  6018. o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6019. - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
  6020. cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  6021. o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6022. - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
  6023. Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6024. o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6025. - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
  6026. launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
  6027. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  6028. o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6029. - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
  6030. relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
  6031. o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
  6032. - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
  6033. Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  6034. o Minor bugfixes:
  6035. - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
  6036. referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
  6037. for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
  6038. earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
  6039. from bug 7164.
  6040. o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6041. - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
  6042. warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
  6043. there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
  6044. o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6045. - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
  6046. leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
  6047. users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
  6048. o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
  6049. - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
  6050. looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
  6051. 0.2.3.18-rc.
  6052. Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
  6053. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
  6054. improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
  6055. signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
  6056. "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
  6057. improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
  6058. hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
  6059. the Linux sandbox code.
  6060. There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
  6061. that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
  6062. OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
  6063. This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
  6064. have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
  6065. o Major features (security):
  6066. - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
  6067. pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
  6068. the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
  6069. setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
  6070. - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
  6071. vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
  6072. don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
  6073. doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
  6074. o Major features (relay performance):
  6075. - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
  6076. circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
  6077. functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
  6078. some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
  6079. - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
  6080. nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
  6081. over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
  6082. had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
  6083. circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
  6084. a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
  6085. o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
  6086. - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
  6087. without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
  6088. will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
  6089. host. Resolves ticket 11351.
  6090. - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
  6091. for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
  6092. of ticket 11351.
  6093. - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
  6094. trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
  6095. o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
  6096. - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
  6097. uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
  6098. acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
  6099. some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
  6100. typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
  6101. 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6102. - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
  6103. which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
  6104. 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
  6105. list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
  6106. Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
  6107. CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
  6108. AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
  6109. - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
  6110. Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
  6111. ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
  6112. advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
  6113. Resolves ticket 11438.
  6114. o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
  6115. - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
  6116. launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
  6117. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  6118. o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
  6119. - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
  6120. FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
  6121. 10267; patch from "yurivict".
  6122. - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
  6123. transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
  6124. pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
  6125. port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
  6126. pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
  6127. divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
  6128. o Minor features (security):
  6129. - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
  6130. hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
  6131. memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
  6132. are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
  6133. 11477.
  6134. o Minor features (log verbosity):
  6135. - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
  6136. out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
  6137. Resolves ticket 5286.
  6138. - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
  6139. about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
  6140. whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
  6141. at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
  6142. - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
  6143. ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
  6144. - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
  6145. warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
  6146. there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
  6147. o Minor features (relay):
  6148. - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
  6149. new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
  6150. IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
  6151. o Minor features (controller):
  6152. - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
  6153. GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
  6154. "rl1987".
  6155. - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
  6156. usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
  6157. real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
  6158. o Minor features (bridge client):
  6159. - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
  6160. bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
  6161. configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
  6162. o Minor features (diagnostic):
  6163. - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
  6164. intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
  6165. warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
  6166. might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
  6167. still referenced by a live node_t object.
  6168. o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
  6169. - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
  6170. answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
  6171. deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
  6172. 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6173. - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
  6174. with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
  6175. isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
  6176. hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
  6177. from "epoch".
  6178. o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
  6179. - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
  6180. Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6181. o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
  6182. - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
  6183. cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
  6184. not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  6185. - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
  6186. client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
  6187. just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  6188. o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
  6189. - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
  6190. we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
  6191. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6192. - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
  6193. connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
  6194. messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  6195. - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
  6196. libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
  6197. platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
  6198. libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6199. - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
  6200. DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
  6201. 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  6202. o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
  6203. - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
  6204. check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
  6205. connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
  6206. connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
  6207. 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  6208. - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
  6209. connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
  6210. out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
  6211. 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  6212. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  6213. - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
  6214. cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  6215. o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
  6216. - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
  6217. CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  6218. o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  6219. - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
  6220. server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
  6221. disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  6222. o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
  6223. - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
  6224. bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  6225. - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
  6226. binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
  6227. 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  6228. - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
  6229. sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
  6230. early. Fixes bug 10081.
  6231. o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
  6232. - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
  6233. 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  6234. - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
  6235. harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6236. - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
  6237. up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
  6238. replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
  6239. 0.2.5.3-alpha.
  6240. - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
  6241. exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
  6242. own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
  6243. should never have affected anyone in practice.
  6244. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
  6245. - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
  6246. times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  6247. o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
  6248. - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
  6249. tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
  6250. pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
  6251. pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
  6252. exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
  6253. 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
  6254. - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
  6255. fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
  6256. 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
  6257. - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
  6258. check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
  6259. do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
  6260. going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
  6261. versions.
  6262. - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
  6263. Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
  6264. positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
  6265. cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
  6266. some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
  6267. logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
  6268. correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
  6269. from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
  6270. many tor versions.
  6271. o Documentation:
  6272. - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
  6273. to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
  6274. notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
  6275. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6276. - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
  6277. 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6278. - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
  6279. looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
  6280. 0.2.3.18-rc.
  6281. - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
  6282. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  6283. - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
  6284. - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
  6285. Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
  6286. - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
  6287. confuse Doxygen.
  6288. o Deprecated versions:
  6289. - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
  6290. attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
  6291. descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
  6292. 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
  6293. o Testing:
  6294. - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
  6295. tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
  6296. - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
  6297. Patch from Dana Koch.
  6298. o Removed code:
  6299. - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
  6300. Resolves ticket 11070.
  6301. Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
  6302. Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
  6303. two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
  6304. SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
  6305. issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
  6306. directory formats.
  6307. The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
  6308. patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
  6309. o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
  6310. - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
  6311. close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
  6312. streams attached to each circuit.
  6313. This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
  6314. 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
  6315. better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
  6316. MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
  6317. to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
  6318. - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
  6319. SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
  6320. feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
  6321. client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
  6322. number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
  6323. thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
  6324. table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
  6325. and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
  6326. ticket 4900.
  6327. - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
  6328. the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
  6329. bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
  6330. o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
  6331. - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
  6332. fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
  6333. notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
  6334. information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
  6335. Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
  6336. - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
  6337. using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
  6338. Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
  6339. o Minor features (other):
  6340. - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
  6341. after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
  6342. will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
  6343. for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
  6344. - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
  6345. DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
  6346. AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
  6347. ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
  6348. - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
  6349. Country database.
  6350. o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
  6351. - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
  6352. define static functions only some of which will get used later in
  6353. the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
  6354. unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
  6355. - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
  6356. manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
  6357. Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
  6358. o Minor bugfixes (client):
  6359. - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
  6360. because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
  6361. descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
  6362. was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  6363. - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
  6364. our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
  6365. the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
  6366. 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  6367. - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
  6368. Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
  6369. controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
  6370. was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
  6371. clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
  6372. a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  6373. - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
  6374. transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
  6375. log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  6376. - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
  6377. generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
  6378. applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6379. o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
  6380. - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
  6381. relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
  6382. - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
  6383. DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
  6384. non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
  6385. bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
  6386. - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
  6387. to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  6388. - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
  6389. relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
  6390. - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
  6391. a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
  6392. no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
  6393. on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  6394. - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
  6395. relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
  6396. o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
  6397. - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
  6398. "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
  6399. needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
  6400. is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
  6401. add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
  6402. Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  6403. - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
  6404. same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
  6405. this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
  6406. results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
  6407. "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
  6408. - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
  6409. 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
  6410. o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
  6411. - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
  6412. call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
  6413. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
  6414. o Removed code:
  6415. - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
  6416. descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
  6417. the rest of bug 10841.
  6418. o Documentation:
  6419. - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
  6420. "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
  6421. "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
  6422. - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
  6423. Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
  6424. nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
  6425. - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
  6426. take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
  6427. - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
  6428. to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
  6429. unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
  6430. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  6431. - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
  6432. the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
  6433. bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  6434. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  6435. - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
  6436. string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
  6437. o Test infrastructure:
  6438. - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
  6439. - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
  6440. that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
  6441. now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  6442. Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
  6443. Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
  6444. find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
  6445. and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
  6446. o Major features (client security):
  6447. - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
  6448. at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
  6449. handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
  6450. a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
  6451. breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
  6452. theory. Implements ticket 9777.
  6453. o Major bugfixes:
  6454. - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
  6455. END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
  6456. since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
  6457. part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6458. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  6459. - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
  6460. CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
  6461. field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
  6462. in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
  6463. o Minor features:
  6464. - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
  6465. that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
  6466. Florent Daigniere.
  6467. - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
  6468. define static functions only some of which will get used later in
  6469. the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
  6470. unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
  6471. - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
  6472. GeoLite2 Country database.
  6473. o Minor bugfixes:
  6474. - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
  6475. on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
  6476. bugfix on every released Tor.
  6477. - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
  6478. exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
  6479. can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
  6480. of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  6481. - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
  6482. manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
  6483. Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
  6484. - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
  6485. not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
  6486. bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  6487. - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
  6488. Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
  6489. ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6490. - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
  6491. heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  6492. o Documentation fixes:
  6493. - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
  6494. flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  6495. Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
  6496. Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
  6497. like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
  6498. circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
  6499. adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
  6500. pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
  6501. pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
  6502. bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
  6503. o Major features (client security):
  6504. - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
  6505. at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
  6506. handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
  6507. a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
  6508. breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
  6509. theory. Implements ticket 9777.
  6510. - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
  6511. decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
  6512. of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
  6513. where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
  6514. connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
  6515. load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
  6516. o Major features (bridges):
  6517. - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
  6518. bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
  6519. pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
  6520. hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
  6521. - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
  6522. Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
  6523. Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
  6524. to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
  6525. bug 9859.
  6526. o Major features (other):
  6527. - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
  6528. and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
  6529. CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
  6530. The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
  6531. goal of being able to better track performance and load during
  6532. full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
  6533. - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
  6534. platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
  6535. Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
  6536. when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
  6537. are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
  6538. reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
  6539. o Major bugfixes:
  6540. - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
  6541. not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
  6542. bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  6543. - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
  6544. END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
  6545. since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
  6546. part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6547. o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
  6548. - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
  6549. HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
  6550. the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
  6551. ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
  6552. cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
  6553. entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
  6554. sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
  6555. OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
  6556. and "rl1987".
  6557. - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
  6558. address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6559. - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
  6560. This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
  6561. streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
  6562. be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  6563. o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
  6564. - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
  6565. our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
  6566. handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
  6567. - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
  6568. only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
  6569. on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6570. o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
  6571. - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
  6572. the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
  6573. - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
  6574. flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
  6575. doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
  6576. Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
  6577. o Minor features (security):
  6578. - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
  6579. that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
  6580. Florent Daignière.
  6581. o Minor features (config options and command line):
  6582. - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
  6583. run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
  6584. Implements ticket 10060.
  6585. - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
  6586. See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
  6587. details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
  6588. o Minor features (controller):
  6589. - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
  6590. related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
  6591. - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
  6592. guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
  6593. too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
  6594. patch from "ra".
  6595. o Minor features (build):
  6596. - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
  6597. and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
  6598. tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
  6599. nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
  6600. - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
  6601. but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
  6602. libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
  6603. o Minor features (testing):
  6604. - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
  6605. the unit test scripts.
  6606. - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
  6607. the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
  6608. specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
  6609. their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
  6610. o Minor features (log messages):
  6611. - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
  6612. useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
  6613. but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
  6614. log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
  6615. - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
  6616. Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
  6617. - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
  6618. more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
  6619. - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
  6620. heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  6621. o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
  6622. - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
  6623. we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
  6624. queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
  6625. cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
  6626. running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
  6627. by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
  6628. - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
  6629. microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
  6630. - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  6631. o Minor bugfixes (clients):
  6632. - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
  6633. pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
  6634. Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
  6635. finding this bug.
  6636. o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  6637. - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
  6638. exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
  6639. can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
  6640. of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  6641. o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
  6642. - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
  6643. pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
  6644. the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
  6645. use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
  6646. but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
  6647. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
  6648. o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
  6649. - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
  6650. directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
  6651. hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
  6652. set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
  6653. servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
  6654. we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  6655. Reported by "mr-4".
  6656. - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
  6657. that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
  6658. bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
  6659. some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  6660. o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
  6661. - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
  6662. way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
  6663. file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
  6664. write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
  6665. option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
  6666. - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
  6667. ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
  6668. --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
  6669. only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
  6670. bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6671. o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
  6672. - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
  6673. disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
  6674. - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
  6675. comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
  6676. check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
  6677. 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
  6678. - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
  6679. actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
  6680. bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
  6681. o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
  6682. - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
  6683. the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
  6684. 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
  6685. "rl1987".
  6686. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  6687. - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
  6688. turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
  6689. bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
  6690. - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
  6691. "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
  6692. 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6693. - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
  6694. identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
  6695. o Minor bugfixes (testing):
  6696. - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
  6697. Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
  6698. ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6699. o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  6700. - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
  6701. as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
  6702. Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  6703. - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
  6704. in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
  6705. be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
  6706. bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  6707. - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
  6708. microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
  6709. to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
  6710. (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
  6711. "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
  6712. bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
  6713. o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
  6714. - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
  6715. cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  6716. - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
  6717. freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
  6718. 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
  6719. o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
  6720. - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
  6721. or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6722. - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
  6723. P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
  6724. it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
  6725. reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
  6726. hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
  6727. reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
  6728. IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6729. - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
  6730. rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  6731. o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
  6732. - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
  6733. second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
  6734. abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
  6735. The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
  6736. to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  6737. - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
  6738. ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
  6739. enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  6740. - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
  6741. do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
  6742. bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
  6743. - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
  6744. formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
  6745. This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
  6746. sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
  6747. Pedro Ribeiro.
  6748. o Removed code and features:
  6749. - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
  6750. a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
  6751. 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
  6752. any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
  6753. - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
  6754. since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
  6755. ticket 10758.
  6756. - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
  6757. options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
  6758. service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
  6759. authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
  6760. downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
  6761. part of a fix for bug 10841.
  6762. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  6763. - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
  6764. in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
  6765. have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
  6766. much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
  6767. - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
  6768. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
  6769. - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
  6770. CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
  6771. of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
  6772. we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
  6773. ticket 10870.
  6774. o Documentation (man page) fixes:
  6775. - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
  6776. find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
  6777. - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
  6778. flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  6779. o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
  6780. - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
  6781. for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
  6782. - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
  6783. the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
  6784. - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
  6785. log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
  6786. o Tool changes:
  6787. - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
  6788. create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
  6789. 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
  6790. Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
  6791. Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
  6792. who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
  6793. torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
  6794. and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
  6795. first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
  6796. keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
  6797. This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
  6798. many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
  6799. o Major bugfixes:
  6800. - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
  6801. HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
  6802. the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
  6803. ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
  6804. cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
  6805. entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
  6806. sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
  6807. OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
  6808. and "rl1987".
  6809. - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
  6810. address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6811. - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
  6812. This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
  6813. streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
  6814. be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  6815. o Minor bugfixes:
  6816. - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
  6817. cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  6818. - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
  6819. freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
  6820. 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
  6821. Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
  6822. The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
  6823. (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
  6824. Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
  6825. transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
  6826. design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
  6827. martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
  6828. and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
  6829. Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
  6830. a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
  6831. better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
  6832. creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
  6833. risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
  6834. transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
  6835. gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
  6836. directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
  6837. ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
  6838. caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
  6839. reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
  6840. abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
  6841. and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
  6842. transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
  6843. circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
  6844. security, and privacy fixes.
  6845. Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
  6846. Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
  6847. series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
  6848. stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
  6849. o Major features:
  6850. - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
  6851. Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
  6852. 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
  6853. renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
  6854. them to solve bug 6033.)
  6855. o Major bugfixes:
  6856. - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
  6857. our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
  6858. handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
  6859. - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
  6860. drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
  6861. 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  6862. - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
  6863. only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
  6864. on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6865. - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
  6866. causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
  6867. fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
  6868. channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  6869. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
  6870. - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
  6871. or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  6872. - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
  6873. P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
  6874. it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
  6875. reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
  6876. hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
  6877. reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
  6878. IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  6879. - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
  6880. rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  6881. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
  6882. - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
  6883. second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
  6884. abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
  6885. The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
  6886. to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  6887. - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
  6888. ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
  6889. enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  6890. - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
  6891. do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
  6892. bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
  6893. - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
  6894. formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
  6895. This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
  6896. sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
  6897. Pedro Ribeiro.
  6898. o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
  6899. - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
  6900. not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
  6901. to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
  6902. network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
  6903. - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
  6904. 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
  6905. if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
  6906. the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
  6907. - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
  6908. a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
  6909. good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
  6910. - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
  6911. Implements part of proposal 222.
  6912. o Minor features (other):
  6913. - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
  6914. we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
  6915. queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
  6916. cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
  6917. running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
  6918. by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
  6919. - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
  6920. microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
  6921. - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  6922. o Documentation fixes:
  6923. - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
  6924. for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
  6925. - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
  6926. the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
  6927. - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
  6928. log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
  6929. Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
  6930. Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
  6931. on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
  6932. statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
  6933. a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
  6934. release of the new branch.
  6935. This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
  6936. be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
  6937. stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
  6938. o Major features (security):
  6939. - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
  6940. which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
  6941. Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
  6942. attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
  6943. file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
  6944. for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
  6945. filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
  6946. platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
  6947. Google Summer of Code.
  6948. - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
  6949. Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
  6950. 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
  6951. renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
  6952. them to solve bug 6033.)
  6953. o Major features (other):
  6954. - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
  6955. proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
  6956. - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
  6957. even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
  6958. statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
  6959. and 5040.
  6960. - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
  6961. retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
  6962. and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
  6963. - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
  6964. Implements ticket 8530.
  6965. - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
  6966. directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
  6967. o Major bugfixes:
  6968. - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
  6969. buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
  6970. This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
  6971. many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
  6972. delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
  6973. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  6974. - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
  6975. drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
  6976. 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  6977. - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
  6978. causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
  6979. fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
  6980. channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
  6981. o Build features:
  6982. - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
  6983. exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
  6984. more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
  6985. optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
  6986. radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
  6987. - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
  6988. the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
  6989. unit-testing are now static in production builds.
  6990. - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
  6991. tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
  6992. coverage support.
  6993. o Testing:
  6994. - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
  6995. tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
  6996. lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
  6997. stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
  6998. invoking the other functions it calls.
  6999. - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
  7000. the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
  7001. - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
  7002. - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
  7003. o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
  7004. - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
  7005. not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
  7006. to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
  7007. network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
  7008. - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
  7009. 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
  7010. if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
  7011. the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
  7012. - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
  7013. a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
  7014. good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
  7015. - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
  7016. Implements part of proposal 222.
  7017. o Minor features (config options):
  7018. - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
  7019. their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
  7020. - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
  7021. configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
  7022. option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
  7023. - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
  7024. unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
  7025. "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
  7026. - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
  7027. that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
  7028. consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
  7029. - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
  7030. bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
  7031. pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
  7032. - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
  7033. bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
  7034. you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
  7035. Patch by CharlieB.
  7036. o Minor features (build):
  7037. - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
  7038. - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
  7039. them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
  7040. - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
  7041. configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
  7042. Arlo Breault.
  7043. o Minor features (other):
  7044. - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
  7045. sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
  7046. - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
  7047. time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
  7048. message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
  7049. - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
  7050. notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
  7051. transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
  7052. - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
  7053. of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
  7054. make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
  7055. handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
  7056. Closes ticket 8109.
  7057. - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7058. o Minor bugfixes:
  7059. - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
  7060. on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
  7061. bugfix on every released Tor.
  7062. - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
  7063. headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
  7064. bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
  7065. - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
  7066. memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
  7067. it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
  7068. from Arlo Breault.
  7069. - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
  7070. platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
  7071. microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
  7072. Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  7073. - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
  7074. single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
  7075. would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
  7076. bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  7077. o Minor bugfixes (command line):
  7078. - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
  7079. command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
  7080. inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
  7081. names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
  7082. 0.0.9pre5.
  7083. - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
  7084. 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  7085. o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
  7086. - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
  7087. it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
  7088. from Guilhem.
  7089. - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
  7090. exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
  7091. 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
  7092. - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
  7093. install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  7094. o Minor code improvements:
  7095. - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
  7096. shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
  7097. from Arlo Breault.
  7098. - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
  7099. hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
  7100. embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
  7101. tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
  7102. 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
  7103. o Removed features:
  7104. - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
  7105. file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
  7106. incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
  7107. a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
  7108. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  7109. - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
  7110. of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
  7111. 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
  7112. - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
  7113. buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
  7114. i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
  7115. - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
  7116. structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
  7117. - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
  7118. 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
  7119. - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
  7120. and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
  7121. - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
  7122. Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
  7123. - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
  7124. Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
  7125. Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
  7126. series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
  7127. influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
  7128. circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
  7129. the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
  7130. big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
  7131. o Major features:
  7132. - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
  7133. with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
  7134. requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
  7135. 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
  7136. "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
  7137. Implements ticket 9574.
  7138. o Major bugfixes:
  7139. - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
  7140. or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
  7141. Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  7142. - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
  7143. previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
  7144. successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
  7145. testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
  7146. it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
  7147. an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  7148. - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
  7149. the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
  7150. next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
  7151. 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  7152. o Minor bugfixes:
  7153. - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
  7154. replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
  7155. our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
  7156. bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
  7157. o Minor fixes (config options):
  7158. - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
  7159. ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
  7160. maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
  7161. - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
  7162. message is logged at notice, not at info.
  7163. - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
  7164. ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
  7165. or we just won't work.)
  7166. o Minor features:
  7167. - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
  7168. and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
  7169. operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
  7170. - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7171. Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
  7172. Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
  7173. series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
  7174. o Major bugfixes:
  7175. - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
  7176. when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
  7177. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  7178. - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
  7179. crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7180. Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
  7181. branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
  7182. the recent news.)
  7183. - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
  7184. answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  7185. - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
  7186. 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
  7187. o Minor bugfixes:
  7188. - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
  7189. transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
  7190. Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7191. - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
  7192. decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
  7193. decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
  7194. match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
  7195. 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
  7196. - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
  7197. NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
  7198. the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7199. - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
  7200. GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
  7201. o Minor features:
  7202. - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7203. Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
  7204. Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
  7205. series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
  7206. Please test it and let us know whether it is!
  7207. o Major bugfixes:
  7208. - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
  7209. LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
  7210. Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  7211. o Minor features:
  7212. - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
  7213. It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
  7214. to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
  7215. Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
  7216. Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
  7217. present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  7218. o Major bugfixes:
  7219. - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
  7220. MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
  7221. memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
  7222. circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
  7223. bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
  7224. bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
  7225. This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
  7226. where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
  7227. on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
  7228. proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
  7229. send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
  7230. bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
  7231. - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
  7232. points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
  7233. bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  7234. Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
  7235. Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
  7236. vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
  7237. actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
  7238. of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
  7239. o Major bugfixes (robustness):
  7240. - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
  7241. bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
  7242. fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
  7243. - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
  7244. the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
  7245. allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
  7246. eugenis.
  7247. - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
  7248. when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
  7249. rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
  7250. 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  7251. - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
  7252. using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
  7253. on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  7254. o Major bugfixes:
  7255. - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
  7256. find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
  7257. missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
  7258. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  7259. - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
  7260. meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
  7261. different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
  7262. a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
  7263. wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
  7264. resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
  7265. 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  7266. - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
  7267. authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
  7268. turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
  7269. 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
  7270. - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
  7271. microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
  7272. bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  7273. o Minor bugfixes:
  7274. - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
  7275. bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
  7276. - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
  7277. rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
  7278. microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
  7279. microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
  7280. Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  7281. - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
  7282. option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  7283. - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
  7284. page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
  7285. bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7286. - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
  7287. publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
  7288. 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7289. - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
  7290. socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
  7291. subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
  7292. set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
  7293. 0.2.4.12-alpha.
  7294. o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  7295. - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
  7296. resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
  7297. pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
  7298. This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
  7299. attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
  7300. on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7301. - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
  7302. address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
  7303. on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  7304. o Minor features:
  7305. - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
  7306. to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
  7307. - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
  7308. in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
  7309. measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
  7310. bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
  7311. - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7312. o Removed documentation:
  7313. - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
  7314. to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
  7315. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  7316. - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
  7317. objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
  7318. build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
  7319. Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
  7320. Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
  7321. process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
  7322. authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
  7323. username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
  7324. variety of other issues.
  7325. o Major features:
  7326. - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
  7327. "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
  7328. 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
  7329. load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
  7330. via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
  7331. parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  7332. - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
  7333. advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
  7334. ticket 8273.
  7335. - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
  7336. of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
  7337. bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
  7338. o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
  7339. - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
  7340. network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
  7341. consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  7342. - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
  7343. onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
  7344. case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  7345. o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
  7346. - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
  7347. continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
  7348. is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
  7349. backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
  7350. - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
  7351. which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
  7352. rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  7353. - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
  7354. we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
  7355. consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
  7356. Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
  7357. address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  7358. - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
  7359. IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
  7360. username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
  7361. had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
  7362. never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
  7363. username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
  7364. this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
  7365. bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  7366. o Major bugfixes (other):
  7367. - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
  7368. directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
  7369. nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
  7370. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7371. o Minor features:
  7372. - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
  7373. Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
  7374. - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
  7375. entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
  7376. bug 8638.
  7377. - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
  7378. to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
  7379. ticket 8596.
  7380. - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7381. o Minor features (build):
  7382. - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
  7383. when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
  7384. Fixes bug 6673.
  7385. - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
  7386. specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
  7387. Fixes bug 8014.
  7388. - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
  7389. are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
  7390. hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
  7391. some will remain.
  7392. o Minor bugfixes (build):
  7393. - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
  7394. run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  7395. Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  7396. - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
  7397. On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
  7398. as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7399. - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
  7400. but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
  7401. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7402. - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
  7403. prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
  7404. statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
  7405. statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
  7406. on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7407. o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
  7408. - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
  7409. circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
  7410. - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
  7411. VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
  7412. 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
  7413. only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
  7414. 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
  7415. - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
  7416. consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
  7417. bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
  7418. - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
  7419. cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
  7420. later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7421. Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7422. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  7423. - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
  7424. an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  7425. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
  7426. - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
  7427. link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
  7428. only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
  7429. pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  7430. - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
  7431. buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
  7432. additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
  7433. counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
  7434. Should help resolve bug 8235.
  7435. - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
  7436. nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
  7437. "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
  7438. on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7439. o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
  7440. - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
  7441. setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
  7442. practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
  7443. values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
  7444. 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
  7445. - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
  7446. caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
  7447. less common.
  7448. o Minor bugfixes (config):
  7449. - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
  7450. quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
  7451. on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  7452. - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
  7453. but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
  7454. bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  7455. - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
  7456. CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
  7457. user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
  7458. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  7459. - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
  7460. since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
  7461. bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  7462. - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
  7463. the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
  7464. observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7465. - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
  7466. PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
  7467. on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7468. o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
  7469. - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
  7470. the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
  7471. - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
  7472. overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
  7473. high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
  7474. Diagnostic for bug 7707.
  7475. - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
  7476. track bug 7799.
  7477. - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
  7478. microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
  7479. or at least make it more diagnosable.
  7480. - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
  7481. outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
  7482. - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
  7483. Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7484. o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
  7485. - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
  7486. They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
  7487. the relaxed timeout log message.
  7488. - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
  7489. should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
  7490. by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
  7491. 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7492. - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
  7493. is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
  7494. bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7495. - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
  7496. Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7497. - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
  7498. connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
  7499. 0.2.4.11-alpha.
  7500. o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
  7501. - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
  7502. finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
  7503. connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
  7504. bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  7505. - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
  7506. bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  7507. - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
  7508. of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
  7509. - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
  7510. hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
  7511. decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
  7512. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  7513. - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
  7514. These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
  7515. with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
  7516. opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  7517. o Documentation fixes:
  7518. - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
  7519. names match. Fixes bug 7768.
  7520. - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
  7521. supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  7522. - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
  7523. - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
  7524. ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
  7525. ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
  7526. o Removed files:
  7527. - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
  7528. recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
  7529. ticket 8290.
  7530. Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
  7531. Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
  7532. more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
  7533. resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
  7534. o Major features (directory authorities):
  7535. - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
  7536. where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
  7537. insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
  7538. - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
  7539. serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
  7540. old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
  7541. any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
  7542. - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
  7543. the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
  7544. Implements ticket 8151.
  7545. o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  7546. - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
  7547. time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
  7548. were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
  7549. bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  7550. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  7551. - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
  7552. refactored the hidden service introduction code back
  7553. in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
  7554. whether authentication information is present, causing all
  7555. authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
  7556. on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
  7557. o Minor features (relays, bridges):
  7558. - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
  7559. address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
  7560. bugs 1913 and 1992.
  7561. - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
  7562. decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
  7563. explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
  7564. Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
  7565. its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
  7566. /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
  7567. - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
  7568. microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
  7569. descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
  7570. (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
  7571. back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
  7572. them). Resolves ticket 4994.
  7573. - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
  7574. use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
  7575. related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
  7576. - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
  7577. IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
  7578. a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
  7579. proposal 214.
  7580. o Minor features (portability):
  7581. - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
  7582. that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7583. - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
  7584. the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
  7585. approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
  7586. - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
  7587. only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
  7588. bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7589. o Minor features (other):
  7590. - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
  7591. of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
  7592. units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
  7593. - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
  7594. our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
  7595. so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
  7596. we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
  7597. be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
  7598. 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7599. - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7600. o Minor bugfixes (clients):
  7601. - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
  7602. reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
  7603. status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
  7604. as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
  7605. 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  7606. - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
  7607. LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
  7608. from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
  7609. is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
  7610. 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7611. - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
  7612. Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
  7613. independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
  7614. bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7615. o Minor bugfixes (relays):
  7616. - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
  7617. think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
  7618. answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
  7619. and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
  7620. - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
  7621. "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
  7622. on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
  7623. - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
  7624. first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
  7625. we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
  7626. 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
  7627. many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
  7628. 0.2.2.20-alpha.
  7629. - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
  7630. Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
  7631. bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
  7632. by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
  7633. o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
  7634. - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
  7635. microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
  7636. on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  7637. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
  7638. - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
  7639. or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  7640. - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
  7641. on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  7642. - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
  7643. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  7644. - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
  7645. a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  7646. o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
  7647. - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
  7648. Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
  7649. this is CID 718634.
  7650. - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
  7651. close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
  7652. use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
  7653. Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
  7654. is CID 743383.
  7655. - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
  7656. because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
  7657. Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7658. - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
  7659. long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
  7660. to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
  7661. bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
  7662. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  7663. - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
  7664. rate-limit" case.
  7665. Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
  7666. Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
  7667. certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
  7668. for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
  7669. limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
  7670. of other issues.
  7671. o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
  7672. - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
  7673. nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
  7674. Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
  7675. bug 8146.
  7676. - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
  7677. to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
  7678. Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
  7679. bug 8147.
  7680. o Major bugfixes:
  7681. - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
  7682. that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
  7683. actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
  7684. 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
  7685. - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
  7686. ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
  7687. which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
  7688. to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
  7689. denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
  7690. of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  7691. - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
  7692. This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
  7693. with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
  7694. on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  7695. o Major features (relay):
  7696. - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
  7697. create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
  7698. the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
  7699. process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
  7700. take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
  7701. of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
  7702. configure MaxOnionsPending again.
  7703. o Major features (portability):
  7704. - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
  7705. resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
  7706. 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
  7707. - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
  7708. Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7709. o Minor features:
  7710. - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
  7711. never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
  7712. bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
  7713. when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
  7714. should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
  7715. improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
  7716. ticket 8145.
  7717. - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
  7718. address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
  7719. possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
  7720. http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
  7721. hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
  7722. - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
  7723. cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
  7724. SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
  7725. o Minor features (path selection):
  7726. - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
  7727. instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
  7728. of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
  7729. keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
  7730. stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
  7731. taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
  7732. new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
  7733. - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
  7734. and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
  7735. countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
  7736. new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
  7737. excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
  7738. with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
  7739. gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
  7740. - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
  7741. use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
  7742. success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
  7743. determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
  7744. fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
  7745. o Minor features (log messages):
  7746. - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
  7747. transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
  7748. - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
  7749. from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
  7750. o Minor bugfixes:
  7751. - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
  7752. cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
  7753. bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  7754. - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
  7755. don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
  7756. actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
  7757. warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
  7758. - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
  7759. actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
  7760. bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7761. - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
  7762. bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7763. o Build improvements:
  7764. - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
  7765. is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
  7766. - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
  7767. tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
  7768. _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
  7769. our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
  7770. - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
  7771. memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
  7772. platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
  7773. they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
  7774. currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
  7775. than to perform erroneously.
  7776. o Removed features:
  7777. - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
  7778. in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
  7779. Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
  7780. ticket 5823.
  7781. - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
  7782. before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
  7783. warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
  7784. 6826.
  7785. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  7786. - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
  7787. ticket 5285.
  7788. - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
  7789. with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
  7790. ticket 7599.
  7791. Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
  7792. Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
  7793. work more robustly.
  7794. o Major bugfixes:
  7795. - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
  7796. handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
  7797. couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
  7798. on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
  7799. Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
  7800. Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
  7801. risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
  7802. stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
  7803. o Major features:
  7804. - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
  7805. possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
  7806. directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
  7807. that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
  7808. directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
  7809. standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
  7810. rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
  7811. directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
  7812. - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
  7813. format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
  7814. and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
  7815. closes ticket 7199.
  7816. o Major features (new circuit handshake):
  7817. - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
  7818. Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
  7819. circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
  7820. (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
  7821. used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
  7822. uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
  7823. function, making it significantly more secure than the older
  7824. handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
  7825. pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
  7826. can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
  7827. The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
  7828. with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
  7829. old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
  7830. Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
  7831. comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
  7832. UseNTorHandshake to 1.
  7833. Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
  7834. o Major features (better link encryption):
  7835. - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
  7836. and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
  7837. TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
  7838. previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
  7839. public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
  7840. the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
  7841. TLSECGroup option.
  7842. Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
  7843. clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
  7844. so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
  7845. implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
  7846. match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
  7847. ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
  7848. when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
  7849. This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
  7850. and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
  7851. with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
  7852. "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
  7853. Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
  7854. o Major bugfixes:
  7855. - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
  7856. client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
  7857. 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  7858. o Minor features:
  7859. - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
  7860. In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
  7861. upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
  7862. undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
  7863. if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
  7864. - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
  7865. separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
  7866. Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
  7867. - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  7868. o Minor features (testing):
  7869. - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
  7870. (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
  7871. - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
  7872. o Minor features (path bias detection):
  7873. - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
  7874. of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
  7875. - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
  7876. two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
  7877. options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
  7878. The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
  7879. - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
  7880. which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
  7881. PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
  7882. - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
  7883. in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
  7884. - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
  7885. PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
  7886. - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
  7887. built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
  7888. Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
  7889. destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
  7890. can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
  7891. - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
  7892. point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
  7893. - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
  7894. *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
  7895. makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
  7896. detection capability loss.
  7897. o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  7898. - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
  7899. circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
  7900. keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
  7901. not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
  7902. - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
  7903. which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
  7904. were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
  7905. 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  7906. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  7907. - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
  7908. enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
  7909. - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
  7910. and the different handshakes it supports.
  7911. - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
  7912. cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
  7913. recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
  7914. any encoding is overkill.
  7915. Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
  7916. Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
  7917. directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
  7918. clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
  7919. adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
  7920. to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
  7921. turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
  7922. and fixes a variety of other issues.
  7923. o Major features (client resilience):
  7924. - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
  7925. a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
  7926. consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
  7927. are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
  7928. but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
  7929. longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
  7930. connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
  7931. directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
  7932. directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
  7933. "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
  7934. enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
  7935. - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
  7936. 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
  7937. should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
  7938. network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
  7939. o Major features (IPv6):
  7940. - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
  7941. connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
  7942. exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
  7943. address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
  7944. addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
  7945. authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
  7946. apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
  7947. ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
  7948. We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
  7949. using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
  7950. o Major features (geoip database):
  7951. - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
  7952. which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
  7953. script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
  7954. file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
  7955. entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
  7956. fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
  7957. Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
  7958. Country database, as modified above.
  7959. o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
  7960. - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
  7961. the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
  7962. level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
  7963. {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
  7964. cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
  7965. exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
  7966. {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
  7967. cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
  7968. potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
  7969. doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
  7970. for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
  7971. problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
  7972. circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
  7973. on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
  7974. little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
  7975. too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
  7976. ticket 7570.
  7977. o Major bugfixes (other):
  7978. - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
  7979. where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
  7980. initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
  7981. uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
  7982. in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
  7983. - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
  7984. closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
  7985. than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
  7986. 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  7987. - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
  7988. 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
  7989. o Minor features:
  7990. - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
  7991. operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
  7992. listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
  7993. - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
  7994. controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
  7995. md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
  7996. - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
  7997. Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
  7998. o Minor features (IPv6):
  7999. - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
  8000. prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
  8001. them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
  8002. addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
  8003. or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
  8004. - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
  8005. annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
  8006. connect to the wrong addresses.
  8007. - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
  8008. AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
  8009. aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
  8010. if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
  8011. addresses anyway.
  8012. o Minor bugfixes:
  8013. - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
  8014. code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
  8015. an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
  8016. Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
  8017. - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
  8018. "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
  8019. - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
  8020. "yayooo".
  8021. - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
  8022. shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
  8023. bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
  8024. o Renamed options:
  8025. - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
  8026. current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
  8027. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  8028. - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
  8029. out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
  8030. - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
  8031. documents. Fixes bug 6887.
  8032. Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
  8033. The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
  8034. Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
  8035. Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
  8036. programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
  8037. freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
  8038. anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
  8039. software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
  8040. Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
  8041. significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
  8042. enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
  8043. enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
  8044. resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
  8045. pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
  8046. support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
  8047. to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
  8048. refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
  8049. to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
  8050. stability, security, and privacy fixes.
  8051. o Major bugfixes:
  8052. - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
  8053. that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
  8054. the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
  8055. was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
  8056. memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
  8057. hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
  8058. by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
  8059. is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
  8060. a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
  8061. Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
  8062. o Minor bugfixes:
  8063. - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
  8064. because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
  8065. 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8066. Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
  8067. Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
  8068. makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
  8069. count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
  8070. o Major bugfixes:
  8071. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
  8072. with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
  8073. Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  8074. - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
  8075. that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
  8076. the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
  8077. was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
  8078. memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
  8079. hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
  8080. by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
  8081. is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
  8082. a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
  8083. Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
  8084. o Minor features:
  8085. - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
  8086. is GeoIPv6File.
  8087. - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
  8088. bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
  8089. extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
  8090. "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
  8091. implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
  8092. o Minor bugfixes:
  8093. - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
  8094. previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
  8095. hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8096. - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
  8097. because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
  8098. 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8099. - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
  8100. Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
  8101. - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
  8102. Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
  8103. - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
  8104. channel functions; emit a warning and then call
  8105. connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
  8106. and 7267.
  8107. - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
  8108. support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  8109. - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
  8110. called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
  8111. or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
  8112. blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  8113. - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
  8114. Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
  8115. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  8116. - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
  8117. need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
  8118. need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
  8119. systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
  8120. present the same extensions.)
  8121. Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
  8122. Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
  8123. two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
  8124. triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
  8125. from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
  8126. o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
  8127. - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
  8128. incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
  8129. by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
  8130. 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8131. - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
  8132. could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
  8133. authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
  8134. information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  8135. o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
  8136. - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
  8137. previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
  8138. "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
  8139. a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
  8140. lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
  8141. and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
  8142. clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
  8143. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8144. o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
  8145. - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
  8146. when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
  8147. an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
  8148. bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8149. o Minor bugfixes:
  8150. - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
  8151. server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
  8152. connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
  8153. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  8154. - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
  8155. Niels Provos).
  8156. - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
  8157. - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
  8158. to its own file.
  8159. Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
  8160. Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
  8161. could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
  8162. a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
  8163. nodes.
  8164. o Major bugfixes (security):
  8165. - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
  8166. incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
  8167. by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
  8168. 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8169. - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
  8170. could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
  8171. authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
  8172. information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  8173. o Major bugfixes:
  8174. - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
  8175. previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
  8176. "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
  8177. a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
  8178. lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
  8179. and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
  8180. clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
  8181. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8182. o Minor bugfixes:
  8183. - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
  8184. when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
  8185. an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
  8186. bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8187. Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
  8188. Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
  8189. vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
  8190. triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
  8191. that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
  8192. scheduling algorithms.
  8193. o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
  8194. - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
  8195. authority. Closes ticket 5749.
  8196. o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
  8197. - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
  8198. our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
  8199. perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
  8200. could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
  8201. was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
  8202. against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
  8203. - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
  8204. protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
  8205. a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
  8206. bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
  8207. o Internal abstraction features:
  8208. - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
  8209. or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
  8210. transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
  8211. cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
  8212. handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
  8213. it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
  8214. at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
  8215. - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
  8216. to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
  8217. code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
  8218. channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
  8219. Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
  8220. - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
  8221. a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
  8222. circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
  8223. easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
  8224. is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
  8225. o Required libraries:
  8226. - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
  8227. strongly recommended.
  8228. o Minor features:
  8229. - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
  8230. UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
  8231. vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
  8232. attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
  8233. place). Resolves ticket 6889.
  8234. - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
  8235. dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
  8236. - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
  8237. accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
  8238. o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
  8239. - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
  8240. relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
  8241. might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
  8242. descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
  8243. - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
  8244. fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
  8245. Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8246. - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
  8247. bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
  8248. - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
  8249. create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
  8250. with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
  8251. than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
  8252. more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  8253. o Minor bugfixes:
  8254. - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
  8255. - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
  8256. memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
  8257. - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
  8258. its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
  8259. ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
  8260. in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
  8261. pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
  8262. on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
  8263. - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
  8264. severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
  8265. is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  8266. - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
  8267. even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
  8268. ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8269. - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
  8270. that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
  8271. requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
  8272. extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
  8273. o Code refactoring and cleanup:
  8274. - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
  8275. previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
  8276. - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
  8277. doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
  8278. underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
  8279. for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
  8280. Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
  8281. Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
  8282. vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
  8283. of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
  8284. o New directory authorities:
  8285. - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
  8286. authority. Closes ticket 5749.
  8287. o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
  8288. - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
  8289. our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
  8290. perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
  8291. could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
  8292. was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
  8293. against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
  8294. - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
  8295. protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
  8296. a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
  8297. bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
  8298. o Major bugfixes:
  8299. - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
  8300. in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
  8301. bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
  8302. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  8303. - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
  8304. fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
  8305. Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8306. - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
  8307. appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
  8308. bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8309. - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
  8310. bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
  8311. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  8312. - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
  8313. DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
  8314. make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
  8315. descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
  8316. - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
  8317. create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
  8318. with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
  8319. than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
  8320. more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
  8321. - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
  8322. a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
  8323. bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  8324. - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
  8325. rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
  8326. Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
  8327. numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
  8328. bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
  8329. o Documentation fixes:
  8330. - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
  8331. Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
  8332. Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
  8333. assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
  8334. and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
  8335. o Security fixes:
  8336. - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
  8337. by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
  8338. Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8339. o Major bugfixes:
  8340. - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
  8341. in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
  8342. bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
  8343. - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
  8344. we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
  8345. accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
  8346. DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
  8347. bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
  8348. o Security features:
  8349. - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
  8350. weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
  8351. part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
  8352. than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
  8353. choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
  8354. - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
  8355. by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
  8356. clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
  8357. and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
  8358. ticket 6888.
  8359. o Minor features:
  8360. - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
  8361. a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
  8362. stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
  8363. o Minor bugfixes:
  8364. - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
  8365. a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
  8366. bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  8367. - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
  8368. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  8369. - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
  8370. which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
  8371. 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
  8372. - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
  8373. appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
  8374. bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8375. - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
  8376. would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
  8377. dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
  8378. 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8379. - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
  8380. is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8381. - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
  8382. when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
  8383. Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8384. o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
  8385. - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
  8386. with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
  8387. incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  8388. - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
  8389. close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
  8390. Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  8391. - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
  8392. rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
  8393. Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
  8394. numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
  8395. bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
  8396. - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
  8397. Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  8398. - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
  8399. like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
  8400. grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
  8401. - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
  8402. to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
  8403. slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
  8404. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  8405. - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
  8406. hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
  8407. - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
  8408. into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
  8409. testable, and a little less fragile too.
  8410. - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
  8411. for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  8412. o Documentation fixes:
  8413. - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
  8414. - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
  8415. 0.2.3.14-alpha.
  8416. Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
  8417. Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
  8418. assertion.
  8419. o Security fixes:
  8420. - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
  8421. by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
  8422. Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8423. o Minor bugfixes:
  8424. - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
  8425. version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
  8426. on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  8427. Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
  8428. Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
  8429. assertions.
  8430. o Security fixes:
  8431. - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
  8432. by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
  8433. Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8434. - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
  8435. address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
  8436. assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
  8437. allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
  8438. on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  8439. Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
  8440. Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
  8441. raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
  8442. log messages less noisy.
  8443. o Major features:
  8444. - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
  8445. proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
  8446. ticket 4567.
  8447. o Major bugfixes:
  8448. - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
  8449. to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
  8450. infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
  8451. relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
  8452. last time we raised it).
  8453. o Minor features:
  8454. - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
  8455. one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
  8456. track-down errors.
  8457. - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
  8458. versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
  8459. part of ticket 6736.
  8460. - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
  8461. Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
  8462. These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
  8463. ticket 6789.
  8464. o Minor bugfixes:
  8465. - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
  8466. to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
  8467. Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  8468. - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
  8469. version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
  8470. on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  8471. - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
  8472. so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8473. - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
  8474. (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
  8475. Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8476. - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
  8477. src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
  8478. circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8479. - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
  8480. 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8481. - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
  8482. converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
  8483. o Removed features:
  8484. - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
  8485. need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
  8486. bunch of compatibility code.
  8487. o Code refactoring:
  8488. - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
  8489. TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
  8490. the ORPort and the DirPort.
  8491. Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
  8492. Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
  8493. bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
  8494. advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
  8495. This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
  8496. be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
  8497. stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
  8498. o Major features (bridges):
  8499. - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
  8500. bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
  8501. bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
  8502. ticket 3589.
  8503. o Major features (IPv6):
  8504. - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
  8505. them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
  8506. - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
  8507. IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
  8508. to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
  8509. - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
  8510. OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
  8511. - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
  8512. method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
  8513. o Major features (build):
  8514. - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
  8515. Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
  8516. Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
  8517. process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
  8518. building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
  8519. fixes by Jim Meyering.
  8520. - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
  8521. default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
  8522. behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
  8523. o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
  8524. - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
  8525. rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
  8526. crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
  8527. These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
  8528. attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
  8529. - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
  8530. spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
  8531. we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
  8532. Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
  8533. 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
  8534. o Minor features (streamlining);
  8535. - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
  8536. or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
  8537. ticket 5124.
  8538. - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
  8539. OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
  8540. cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
  8541. was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
  8542. of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
  8543. pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  8544. o Minor features (controller):
  8545. - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
  8546. ticket 3842.
  8547. - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
  8548. Implements ticket 4971.
  8549. o Minor features (IPv6):
  8550. - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
  8551. authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
  8552. do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
  8553. - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
  8554. cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
  8555. o Minor features (log messages):
  8556. - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
  8557. useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
  8558. Resolves ticket 6758.
  8559. - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
  8560. bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
  8561. problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
  8562. ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8563. - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
  8564. reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
  8565. directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
  8566. ticket 6760.
  8567. - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
  8568. them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
  8569. some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
  8570. less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8571. - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
  8572. asciidoc source.
  8573. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  8574. - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
  8575. the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
  8576. of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
  8577. we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
  8578. CID 448.
  8579. - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
  8580. - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
  8581. Implements ticket 5529.
  8582. - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
  8583. rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
  8584. and test. Resolves bug 6177.
  8585. - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
  8586. We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
  8587. memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
  8588. implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
  8589. are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
  8590. more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
  8591. little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
  8592. o New requirements:
  8593. - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
  8594. Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
  8595. from a source distribution.)
  8596. Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
  8597. Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
  8598. series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
  8599. we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
  8600. consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
  8601. and cleans up other smaller issues.
  8602. o Major bugfixes (security):
  8603. - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
  8604. could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
  8605. than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
  8606. or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
  8607. entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
  8608. from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
  8609. this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
  8610. Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
  8611. - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
  8612. this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
  8613. network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
  8614. 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
  8615. - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
  8616. address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
  8617. assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
  8618. allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
  8619. on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  8620. o Major bugfixes:
  8621. - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
  8622. the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
  8623. declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
  8624. piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8625. - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
  8626. as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
  8627. of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
  8628. even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
  8629. ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
  8630. fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  8631. o Minor bugfixes:
  8632. - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
  8633. occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
  8634. requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
  8635. - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
  8636. Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8637. - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
  8638. timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
  8639. and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
  8640. clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
  8641. the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
  8642. bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
  8643. 30 seconds.
  8644. - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
  8645. consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
  8646. microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
  8647. 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8648. - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
  8649. "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
  8650. to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
  8651. on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
  8652. 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  8653. - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
  8654. when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
  8655. they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
  8656. wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8657. - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
  8658. precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8659. - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
  8660. the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
  8661. where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
  8662. ticket 6514.
  8663. o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  8664. - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
  8665. severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
  8666. anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
  8667. from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  8668. - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
  8669. them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
  8670. state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
  8671. circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
  8672. messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
  8673. 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8674. - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
  8675. entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
  8676. we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
  8677. the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
  8678. o Minor features:
  8679. - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
  8680. change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
  8681. uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
  8682. - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
  8683. Resolves ticket 6732.
  8684. Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
  8685. Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
  8686. attack that could in theory leak path information.
  8687. o Security fixes:
  8688. - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
  8689. document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
  8690. lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8691. - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
  8692. choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
  8693. stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
  8694. had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
  8695. a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
  8696. timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
  8697. they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
  8698. a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
  8699. be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
  8700. other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
  8701. not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
  8702. Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
  8703. Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
  8704. series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
  8705. issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
  8706. o Security fixes:
  8707. - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
  8708. when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
  8709. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  8710. - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
  8711. document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
  8712. lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8713. - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
  8714. choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
  8715. stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
  8716. had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
  8717. a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
  8718. timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
  8719. they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
  8720. a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
  8721. be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
  8722. other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
  8723. not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
  8724. o Minor features:
  8725. - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
  8726. a little more useful.
  8727. - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
  8728. relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8729. - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
  8730. reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
  8731. - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
  8732. link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
  8733. address. Resolves ticket 6490.
  8734. o Minor bugfixes:
  8735. - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
  8736. file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  8737. - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
  8738. a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8739. - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
  8740. circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
  8741. on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8742. o Packaging (RPM):
  8743. - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
  8744. on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
  8745. conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
  8746. user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
  8747. patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
  8748. o Testing:
  8749. - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
  8750. option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
  8751. as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
  8752. o Documentation:
  8753. - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
  8754. Fixes bug 6387.
  8755. - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
  8756. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  8757. - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
  8758. 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
  8759. led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
  8760. SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
  8761. Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
  8762. Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
  8763. series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
  8764. that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
  8765. since the beginning of Tor.
  8766. o Major bugfixes:
  8767. - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
  8768. result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
  8769. pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
  8770. before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
  8771. - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
  8772. June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
  8773. which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
  8774. or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8775. - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
  8776. on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
  8777. o Minor bugfixes:
  8778. - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
  8779. bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
  8780. Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
  8781. Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
  8782. series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
  8783. Please test it and let us know whether it is!
  8784. o Major bugfixes:
  8785. - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
  8786. controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8787. - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
  8788. such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
  8789. successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
  8790. bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8791. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  8792. - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
  8793. the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
  8794. - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
  8795. upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
  8796. sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
  8797. to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  8798. - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
  8799. connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
  8800. errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
  8801. 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
  8802. - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
  8803. from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
  8804. bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  8805. - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
  8806. before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
  8807. consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  8808. - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
  8809. Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  8810. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  8811. - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
  8812. and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
  8813. on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8814. - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
  8815. "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8816. - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
  8817. a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
  8818. to 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  8819. - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
  8820. bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8821. - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
  8822. messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  8823. - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
  8824. be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
  8825. bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8826. - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
  8827. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  8828. - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
  8829. enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8830. - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
  8831. connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
  8832. sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8833. - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
  8834. that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
  8835. 0.2.3.17-beta.
  8836. o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
  8837. - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
  8838. Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
  8839. - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
  8840. - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
  8841. o Documentation:
  8842. - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
  8843. semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
  8844. options. Closes bug 4748.
  8845. Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
  8846. Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
  8847. gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
  8848. Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
  8849. with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
  8850. candidate.
  8851. o Major features:
  8852. - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
  8853. - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
  8854. ticket 4744.
  8855. - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
  8856. clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
  8857. they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
  8858. necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
  8859. us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
  8860. can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
  8861. not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
  8862. or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
  8863. out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
  8864. o Major bugfixes:
  8865. - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
  8866. 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
  8867. identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
  8868. the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
  8869. regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
  8870. - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
  8871. bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
  8872. bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
  8873. o Minor bugfixes:
  8874. - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
  8875. blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
  8876. bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
  8877. case for flushing marked connections.
  8878. - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
  8879. server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  8880. - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
  8881. We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
  8882. address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
  8883. .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
  8884. bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  8885. - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
  8886. some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  8887. - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
  8888. right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
  8889. computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
  8890. bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  8891. - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
  8892. that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
  8893. NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
  8894. Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  8895. - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
  8896. Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  8897. - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
  8898. and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
  8899. could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
  8900. bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  8901. - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
  8902. DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
  8903. on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  8904. - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
  8905. options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  8906. - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
  8907. 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  8908. o Minor features:
  8909. - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
  8910. more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
  8911. returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
  8912. - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
  8913. options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
  8914. CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
  8915. - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
  8916. configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
  8917. all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
  8918. directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
  8919. - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
  8920. Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
  8921. consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
  8922. default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
  8923. Addresses ticket 5458.
  8924. - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  8925. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  8926. - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
  8927. message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
  8928. Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
  8929. Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
  8930. bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
  8931. currently).
  8932. o Major bugfixes:
  8933. - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
  8934. 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
  8935. the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
  8936. 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
  8937. - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
  8938. any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
  8939. Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8940. - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
  8941. descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
  8942. for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
  8943. ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  8944. o Minor bugfixes:
  8945. - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
  8946. Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  8947. o Minor features:
  8948. - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
  8949. to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
  8950. Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
  8951. Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
  8952. bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
  8953. currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
  8954. that get us closer to a release candidate.
  8955. o Major bugfixes (general):
  8956. - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
  8957. 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
  8958. the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
  8959. 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
  8960. - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
  8961. any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
  8962. Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  8963. - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
  8964. even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
  8965. 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  8966. - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
  8967. system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
  8968. service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
  8969. We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
  8970. part of bug 2988.
  8971. o Major bugfixes (clients):
  8972. - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
  8973. stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
  8974. hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
  8975. which introduced predicted ports.
  8976. - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
  8977. descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
  8978. for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
  8979. ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  8980. - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
  8981. long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
  8982. did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
  8983. indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
  8984. - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
  8985. always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
  8986. circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  8987. This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
  8988. but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
  8989. o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
  8990. - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
  8991. presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
  8992. would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
  8993. value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
  8994. fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  8995. - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
  8996. double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
  8997. authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
  8998. votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
  8999. but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
  9000. on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  9001. o Minor features:
  9002. - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
  9003. a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
  9004. often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
  9005. are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
  9006. reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
  9007. client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
  9008. - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
  9009. platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
  9010. Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
  9011. - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
  9012. server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
  9013. bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
  9014. little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
  9015. skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
  9016. ticket 3196.
  9017. - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
  9018. handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
  9019. - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
  9020. - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
  9021. This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
  9022. connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
  9023. directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
  9024. sure. Closes bug 5139.
  9025. - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
  9026. via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
  9027. can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
  9028. it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
  9029. - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
  9030. to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
  9031. - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9032. o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
  9033. - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
  9034. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
  9035. - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
  9036. Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
  9037. incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
  9038. Esteban Manchado Velázques.
  9039. - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
  9040. as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
  9041. underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
  9042. functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
  9043. underlying integer type, these functions would return those
  9044. values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
  9045. Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
  9046. - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
  9047. existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
  9048. server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
  9049. 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  9050. - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
  9051. circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
  9052. o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  9053. - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
  9054. for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
  9055. empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
  9056. since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
  9057. but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
  9058. robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
  9059. - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
  9060. network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
  9061. bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
  9062. nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
  9063. - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
  9064. the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
  9065. 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  9066. - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
  9067. extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  9068. - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
  9069. Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
  9070. Tor 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  9071. - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
  9072. the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
  9073. bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  9074. - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
  9075. SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
  9076. bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  9077. - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
  9078. Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  9079. - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
  9080. violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
  9081. bug 5645.
  9082. - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
  9083. that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
  9084. will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
  9085. o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  9086. - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
  9087. resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
  9088. try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
  9089. started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
  9090. - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
  9091. connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
  9092. completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
  9093. connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
  9094. - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
  9095. do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
  9096. bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  9097. - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
  9098. during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
  9099. continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
  9100. Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  9101. - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
  9102. option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
  9103. a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
  9104. usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
  9105. on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  9106. - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
  9107. continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
  9108. bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  9109. - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
  9110. they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
  9111. and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
  9112. 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  9113. - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
  9114. directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
  9115. by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
  9116. 0.2.2.26-beta.
  9117. - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
  9118. bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
  9119. requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
  9120. of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  9121. - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
  9122. a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  9123. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  9124. - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
  9125. server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
  9126. 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9127. - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
  9128. we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
  9129. 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9130. - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
  9131. their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
  9132. by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9133. - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
  9134. bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
  9135. requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
  9136. of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  9137. - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
  9138. with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
  9139. bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
  9140. - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
  9141. directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
  9142. Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
  9143. a better way.
  9144. - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
  9145. Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
  9146. Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9147. - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
  9148. sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
  9149. 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9150. - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
  9151. Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9152. - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
  9153. Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  9154. - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
  9155. unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  9156. - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
  9157. bug 5859.
  9158. o Documentation fixes:
  9159. - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
  9160. options. Addresses ticket 3964.
  9161. - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
  9162. - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
  9163. fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
  9164. therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
  9165. o Removed files:
  9166. - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
  9167. it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
  9168. bug 5622.
  9169. Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
  9170. Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
  9171. authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
  9172. and fixes several crash bugs.
  9173. Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
  9174. known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
  9175. you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
  9176. those packages and upgrade anyway.
  9177. o Directory authority changes:
  9178. - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
  9179. - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
  9180. it to turtles.
  9181. o Security fixes:
  9182. - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
  9183. than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
  9184. versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
  9185. padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
  9186. information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
  9187. does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
  9188. could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
  9189. they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
  9190. upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
  9191. or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
  9192. to make sure that the bug can't happen.
  9193. - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
  9194. if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
  9195. 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
  9196. and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
  9197. - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
  9198. descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
  9199. flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
  9200. all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
  9201. the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
  9202. - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
  9203. authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
  9204. running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
  9205. process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
  9206. it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
  9207. authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
  9208. this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
  9209. o Major bugfixes:
  9210. - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
  9211. service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  9212. - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
  9213. cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
  9214. 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  9215. - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
  9216. spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
  9217. on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  9218. - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
  9219. on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
  9220. function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
  9221. currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
  9222. bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
  9223. - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
  9224. creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
  9225. bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
  9226. o Minor bugfixes:
  9227. - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
  9228. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
  9229. - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
  9230. as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
  9231. underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
  9232. functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
  9233. underlying integer type, these functions would return those
  9234. values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
  9235. Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
  9236. - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
  9237. by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
  9238. socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
  9239. we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
  9240. no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
  9241. learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
  9242. on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
  9243. - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
  9244. Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
  9245. incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
  9246. Esteban Manchado Velázques.
  9247. - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
  9248. design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
  9249. comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
  9250. to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
  9251. bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  9252. - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
  9253. configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
  9254. to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
  9255. control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
  9256. independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
  9257. noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
  9258. by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
  9259. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  9260. - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
  9261. configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  9262. - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
  9263. 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
  9264. CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
  9265. - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
  9266. Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  9267. - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
  9268. command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  9269. - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
  9270. existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
  9271. server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
  9272. 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  9273. o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
  9274. - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
  9275. Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
  9276. - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
  9277. really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
  9278. - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
  9279. directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
  9280. - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
  9281. to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
  9282. is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
  9283. bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  9284. - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
  9285. controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  9286. - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
  9287. circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
  9288. o Minor features:
  9289. - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
  9290. 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
  9291. inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
  9292. the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
  9293. issue 4788.
  9294. - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9295. - Feature removal:
  9296. - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
  9297. it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
  9298. protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
  9299. didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
  9300. versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
  9301. the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
  9302. remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
  9303. Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
  9304. Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
  9305. the development branch build on Windows again.
  9306. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  9307. - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
  9308. reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
  9309. lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
  9310. Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
  9311. - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
  9312. during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
  9313. it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
  9314. init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  9315. - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
  9316. it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
  9317. to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
  9318. certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  9319. - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
  9320. erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
  9321. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  9322. - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
  9323. years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
  9324. Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9325. - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
  9326. and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  9327. - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
  9328. Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  9329. - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
  9330. on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
  9331. - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
  9332. is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  9333. o Minor features:
  9334. - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
  9335. older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
  9336. make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
  9337. issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
  9338. but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
  9339. - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
  9340. IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
  9341. messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
  9342. connection. Implements ticket 5537.
  9343. o Removed features:
  9344. - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
  9345. authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
  9346. as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
  9347. that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
  9348. or used.
  9349. Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
  9350. Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
  9351. candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
  9352. consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
  9353. o Directory authority changes:
  9354. - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
  9355. it to turtles.
  9356. o Major bugfixes:
  9357. - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
  9358. service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  9359. - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
  9360. cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
  9361. 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  9362. - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
  9363. directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
  9364. them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
  9365. 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
  9366. documents entirely.
  9367. - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
  9368. be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
  9369. fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9370. o Major features (performance):
  9371. - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
  9372. instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
  9373. vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
  9374. much faster than other AES implementations.
  9375. o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
  9376. - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
  9377. for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
  9378. launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
  9379. had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
  9380. bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
  9381. - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
  9382. design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
  9383. comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
  9384. to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
  9385. bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  9386. - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
  9387. pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
  9388. - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
  9389. Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  9390. - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
  9391. unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
  9392. bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  9393. o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
  9394. - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
  9395. if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
  9396. statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  9397. - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
  9398. NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9399. - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
  9400. unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
  9401. the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
  9402. 0.2.3.12-alpha.
  9403. - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
  9404. about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
  9405. 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  9406. - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
  9407. authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
  9408. Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
  9409. o Minor features:
  9410. - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
  9411. bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
  9412. non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
  9413. please let us know about it.
  9414. - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
  9415. directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
  9416. - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
  9417. code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
  9418. improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9419. - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9420. - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
  9421. the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
  9422. o Default torrc changes:
  9423. - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
  9424. port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
  9425. in practice.
  9426. - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
  9427. torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
  9428. - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
  9429. Fixes bug 5621.
  9430. o Removed features:
  9431. - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
  9432. tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
  9433. Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
  9434. 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
  9435. o Code refactoring:
  9436. - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
  9437. initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
  9438. - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
  9439. it would be a bad idea to start.
  9440. Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
  9441. Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
  9442. in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
  9443. that get us closer to a release candidate.
  9444. o Directory authority changes:
  9445. - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
  9446. o Security fixes:
  9447. - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
  9448. authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
  9449. running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
  9450. process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
  9451. it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
  9452. authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
  9453. this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
  9454. - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
  9455. if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
  9456. 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
  9457. and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
  9458. - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
  9459. descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
  9460. flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
  9461. all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
  9462. the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
  9463. o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
  9464. - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
  9465. and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
  9466. situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
  9467. Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
  9468. bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  9469. - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
  9470. unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
  9471. localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9472. - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
  9473. is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
  9474. 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
  9475. torrc files.
  9476. - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
  9477. made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
  9478. introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9479. - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
  9480. 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
  9481. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  9482. - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
  9483. already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
  9484. hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
  9485. 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
  9486. - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
  9487. configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
  9488. to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
  9489. control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
  9490. independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
  9491. noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
  9492. by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
  9493. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  9494. - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
  9495. configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  9496. - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
  9497. of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
  9498. to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
  9499. 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
  9500. - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
  9501. This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
  9502. running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
  9503. identifiers.
  9504. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  9505. - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
  9506. 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9507. - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
  9508. until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
  9509. on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
  9510. - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
  9511. option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
  9512. too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9513. - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
  9514. environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
  9515. pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
  9516. variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
  9517. ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
  9518. environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
  9519. explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
  9520. bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
  9521. o Minor features:
  9522. - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
  9523. - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
  9524. - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9525. Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
  9526. Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
  9527. to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
  9528. when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
  9529. o Major bugfixes:
  9530. - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
  9531. spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
  9532. on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  9533. - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
  9534. connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
  9535. running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
  9536. bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  9537. - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
  9538. would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
  9539. in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
  9540. answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  9541. - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
  9542. Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
  9543. and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
  9544. 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  9545. o Minor features:
  9546. - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
  9547. binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
  9548. statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
  9549. - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
  9550. the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
  9551. PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
  9552. - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9553. o Minor bugfixes:
  9554. - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
  9555. to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
  9556. is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
  9557. bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  9558. - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
  9559. managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
  9560. Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
  9561. implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
  9562. almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
  9563. it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
  9564. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  9565. - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
  9566. HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
  9567. 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
  9568. - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
  9569. bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  9570. - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
  9571. really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
  9572. - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
  9573. log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
  9574. 0.2.3.11-alpha.
  9575. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  9576. - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
  9577. (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
  9578. 'MS_WINDOWS'.)
  9579. Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
  9580. Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
  9581. the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
  9582. a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
  9583. works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
  9584. to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
  9585. o Major features:
  9586. - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
  9587. part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
  9588. refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
  9589. cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
  9590. attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
  9591. - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
  9592. will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
  9593. remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
  9594. part of bug 3825.
  9595. - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
  9596. addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
  9597. binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
  9598. approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
  9599. software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
  9600. whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
  9601. SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
  9602. system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
  9603. o Major security workaround:
  9604. - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
  9605. than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
  9606. versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
  9607. padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
  9608. information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
  9609. does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
  9610. could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
  9611. they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
  9612. upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
  9613. or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
  9614. to make sure that the bug can't happen.
  9615. o Major bugfixes:
  9616. - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
  9617. creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
  9618. bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
  9619. - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
  9620. on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
  9621. function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
  9622. currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
  9623. bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9624. - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
  9625. that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
  9626. bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
  9627. their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
  9628. on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
  9629. o Minor features (controller):
  9630. - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
  9631. control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
  9632. file. Resolves bug 1101.
  9633. - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
  9634. path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
  9635. circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
  9636. - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
  9637. and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
  9638. events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
  9639. of ticket 2411.
  9640. - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
  9641. give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
  9642. - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
  9643. circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
  9644. part of ticket 3457.
  9645. - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
  9646. control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
  9647. circuit-status' control-port command.
  9648. o Minor features (directory authorities):
  9649. - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
  9650. 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
  9651. inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
  9652. the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
  9653. issue 4788.
  9654. - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
  9655. set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
  9656. - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
  9657. FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
  9658. for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
  9659. experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
  9660. The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
  9661. ticket 3946.
  9662. - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
  9663. directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
  9664. o Minor features (other):
  9665. - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
  9666. limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
  9667. low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
  9668. used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
  9669. - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
  9670. - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
  9671. EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
  9672. - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
  9673. attachment.
  9674. - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
  9675. them from the other auths.
  9676. - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
  9677. - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
  9678. UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
  9679. _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
  9680. the 0.2.3.x series.
  9681. - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9682. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  9683. - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
  9684. finished connecting to their destination when they reach
  9685. the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
  9686. introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
  9687. from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
  9688. been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
  9689. after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
  9690. another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
  9691. be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
  9692. option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  9693. - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
  9694. reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
  9695. be disabled using the new
  9696. CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
  9697. remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  9698. - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
  9699. had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
  9700. relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
  9701. client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
  9702. marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
  9703. the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
  9704. a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
  9705. connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
  9706. 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
  9707. might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
  9708. hidden service.
  9709. - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
  9710. hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
  9711. of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
  9712. by murb.
  9713. o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
  9714. - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
  9715. controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
  9716. 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  9717. - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
  9718. Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
  9719. - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
  9720. that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
  9721. 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  9722. - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
  9723. an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  9724. o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
  9725. - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
  9726. 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
  9727. CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
  9728. - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
  9729. libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
  9730. against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
  9731. 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
  9732. Pedersen.
  9733. - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
  9734. of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
  9735. fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  9736. - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
  9737. of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
  9738. to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
  9739. but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
  9740. platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
  9741. of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
  9742. Hebnes Pedersen.
  9743. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  9744. - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
  9745. by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
  9746. socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
  9747. we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
  9748. no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
  9749. learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
  9750. on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
  9751. - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
  9752. Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
  9753. erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
  9754. accidentally been reverted.
  9755. - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
  9756. overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
  9757. provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
  9758. Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
  9759. - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
  9760. invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
  9761. for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
  9762. - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
  9763. connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
  9764. before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9765. - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
  9766. for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
  9767. platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
  9768. 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
  9769. value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  9770. - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
  9771. running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9772. - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
  9773. win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9774. o Feature removal:
  9775. - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
  9776. it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
  9777. protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
  9778. didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
  9779. versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
  9780. the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
  9781. remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
  9782. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  9783. - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
  9784. own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
  9785. Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
  9786. - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
  9787. about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
  9788. - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
  9789. supported).
  9790. - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
  9791. - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
  9792. - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
  9793. invalid value, rather than just -1.
  9794. - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
  9795. structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
  9796. object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
  9797. functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
  9798. they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
  9799. types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
  9800. "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
  9801. type_env_t.
  9802. Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
  9803. Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
  9804. Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
  9805. The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
  9806. in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
  9807. misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
  9808. attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
  9809. attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
  9810. Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
  9811. instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
  9812. (which Tor does not do by default).
  9813. Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
  9814. presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
  9815. this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
  9816. This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
  9817. thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
  9818. This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
  9819. in 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9820. o Major bugfixes:
  9821. - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
  9822. data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
  9823. already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
  9824. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
  9825. o Minor bugfixes:
  9826. - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
  9827. finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
  9828. circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
  9829. again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
  9830. state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
  9831. (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
  9832. 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
  9833. - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
  9834. 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
  9835. - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
  9836. starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
  9837. o Minor features:
  9838. - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9839. Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
  9840. Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
  9841. buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
  9842. The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
  9843. in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
  9844. misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
  9845. attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
  9846. attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
  9847. Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
  9848. instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
  9849. (which Tor does not do by default).
  9850. Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
  9851. presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
  9852. this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
  9853. This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
  9854. thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
  9855. Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
  9856. crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
  9857. would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
  9858. AV software.
  9859. With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
  9860. formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
  9861. nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
  9862. 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
  9863. obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
  9864. The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
  9865. longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
  9866. o Major bugfixes:
  9867. - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
  9868. data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
  9869. already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
  9870. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
  9871. - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
  9872. that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
  9873. some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
  9874. bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
  9875. 2.0.15-stable.
  9876. - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
  9877. don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
  9878. reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
  9879. cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
  9880. which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
  9881. close based on processing a cell on it.
  9882. - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
  9883. allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
  9884. point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
  9885. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  9886. - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
  9887. descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
  9888. 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  9889. - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
  9890. file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
  9891. we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
  9892. - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
  9893. wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
  9894. statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
  9895. useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
  9896. bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
  9897. o Minor bugfixes:
  9898. - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
  9899. detection for future instances of bug 4457.
  9900. - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
  9901. function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
  9902. busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
  9903. - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
  9904. Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
  9905. Mansour Moufid.
  9906. - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
  9907. --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
  9908. 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
  9909. - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
  9910. immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
  9911. or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  9912. - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
  9913. received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
  9914. by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  9915. - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
  9916. bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
  9917. - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
  9918. occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
  9919. in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  9920. - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
  9921. Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
  9922. - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
  9923. unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
  9924. buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  9925. Reported by "troll_un".
  9926. - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
  9927. tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  9928. Reported by "troll_un".
  9929. - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
  9930. Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
  9931. - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
  9932. 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
  9933. o Minor features:
  9934. - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
  9935. AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
  9936. Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
  9937. that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
  9938. the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
  9939. Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
  9940. - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
  9941. include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
  9942. Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
  9943. was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
  9944. - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9945. o Packaging changes:
  9946. - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
  9947. by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
  9948. Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
  9949. Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
  9950. oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
  9951. others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
  9952. using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
  9953. The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
  9954. early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
  9955. o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  9956. - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
  9957. allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
  9958. point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
  9959. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  9960. - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
  9961. data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
  9962. already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
  9963. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
  9964. o Minor features:
  9965. - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  9966. Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
  9967. Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
  9968. a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
  9969. touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
  9970. the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
  9971. design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
  9972. reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
  9973. o Major features:
  9974. - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
  9975. still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
  9976. other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
  9977. user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
  9978. IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
  9979. - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
  9980. connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
  9981. Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
  9982. to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
  9983. to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
  9984. option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
  9985. - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
  9986. "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
  9987. easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
  9988. implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
  9989. - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
  9990. implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
  9991. (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
  9992. Resolves ticket 4526.
  9993. - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
  9994. services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
  9995. measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
  9996. what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
  9997. compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
  9998. cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
  9999. - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
  10000. kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
  10001. "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
  10002. no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
  10003. is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
  10004. run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
  10005. - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
  10006. least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
  10007. vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
  10008. consensus. Implements proposal 178.
  10009. o Major bugfixes:
  10010. - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
  10011. They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
  10012. of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
  10013. replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
  10014. service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
  10015. the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
  10016. field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
  10017. - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
  10018. to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
  10019. bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
  10020. o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
  10021. - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
  10022. serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
  10023. self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
  10024. - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
  10025. default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
  10026. to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
  10027. against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
  10028. identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
  10029. o Minor features (new/different config options):
  10030. - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
  10031. to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
  10032. Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
  10033. - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
  10034. as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
  10035. Implements issue 933.
  10036. - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
  10037. options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
  10038. torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
  10039. would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
  10040. options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
  10041. allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
  10042. ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
  10043. appending to the list.
  10044. - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
  10045. options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
  10046. - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
  10047. line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
  10048. with a "/".
  10049. - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
  10050. before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
  10051. options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
  10052. The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
  10053. differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
  10054. reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
  10055. behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
  10056. to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
  10057. o Minor features:
  10058. - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
  10059. startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
  10060. Resolves ticket 2474.
  10061. - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
  10062. we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
  10063. - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
  10064. Required by fix for bug 3460.
  10065. - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
  10066. INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
  10067. Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
  10068. service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
  10069. - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
  10070. public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
  10071. replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
  10072. INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
  10073. avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
  10074. o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  10075. - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
  10076. Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
  10077. Mansour Moufid.
  10078. - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
  10079. Fixes bug 4574.
  10080. - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
  10081. the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
  10082. named 'op()'.
  10083. - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
  10084. email address. Fixes bug 3448.
  10085. - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
  10086. Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
  10087. - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
  10088. identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
  10089. made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
  10090. 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  10091. - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
  10092. unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
  10093. buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  10094. Reported by "troll_un".
  10095. - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
  10096. tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10097. Reported by "troll_un".
  10098. - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
  10099. 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
  10100. - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
  10101. bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
  10102. o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
  10103. - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
  10104. fixes bug 4554.
  10105. - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
  10106. circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
  10107. Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
  10108. with help from wanoskarnet.
  10109. - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
  10110. options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
  10111. o Build fixes:
  10112. - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
  10113. as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
  10114. src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
  10115. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10116. o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
  10117. - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
  10118. previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
  10119. functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
  10120. evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
  10121. changes suggested in ticket 4421.
  10122. - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
  10123. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
  10124. Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
  10125. Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
  10126. socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
  10127. support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
  10128. map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
  10129. and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
  10130. starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
  10131. "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
  10132. that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
  10133. o Major bugfixes:
  10134. - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
  10135. that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
  10136. some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
  10137. bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
  10138. 2.0.15-stable.
  10139. - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
  10140. allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
  10141. point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
  10142. bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10143. - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
  10144. flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
  10145. up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
  10146. "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
  10147. used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
  10148. a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
  10149. - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
  10150. service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
  10151. we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
  10152. intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
  10153. 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
  10154. trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
  10155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
  10156. - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
  10157. descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
  10158. - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
  10159. wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
  10160. statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
  10161. useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
  10162. bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
  10163. o Major features:
  10164. - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
  10165. for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
  10166. microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
  10167. controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
  10168. consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
  10169. bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  10170. - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
  10171. operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
  10172. ticket 4442.
  10173. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  10174. - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
  10175. detection for future instances of bug 4457.
  10176. - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
  10177. function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
  10178. busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
  10179. - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
  10180. --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
  10181. 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
  10182. - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
  10183. from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
  10184. they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
  10185. command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
  10186. - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
  10187. tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
  10188. by Anders Sundman.
  10189. - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
  10190. bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
  10191. - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
  10192. immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
  10193. or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  10194. - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
  10195. received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
  10196. by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  10197. - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
  10198. can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
  10199. 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
  10200. - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
  10201. descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
  10202. 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  10203. - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
  10204. occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
  10205. in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  10206. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  10207. - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
  10208. 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
  10209. - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
  10210. authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10211. Found by frosty_un.
  10212. - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
  10213. it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
  10214. become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
  10215. "frosty".
  10216. - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
  10217. from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
  10218. to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
  10219. on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10220. - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
  10221. certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
  10222. 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10223. - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
  10224. on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10225. o Minor features:
  10226. - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
  10227. AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
  10228. Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
  10229. that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
  10230. the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
  10231. Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
  10232. - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
  10233. include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
  10234. Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
  10235. was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
  10236. - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
  10237. don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
  10238. turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
  10239. 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
  10240. 2.0.15-stable.
  10241. - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
  10242. AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
  10243. - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10244. o Packaging changes:
  10245. - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
  10246. by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
  10247. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  10248. - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
  10249. Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
  10250. - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
  10251. old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
  10252. relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
  10253. that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
  10254. - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
  10255. we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
  10256. o Testing:
  10257. - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
  10258. Anders Sundman.
  10259. - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
  10260. ./src/test/bench binary.
  10261. - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
  10262. gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
  10263. Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
  10264. Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
  10265. the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
  10266. enumeration issue.
  10267. o Major bugfixes:
  10268. - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
  10269. don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
  10270. reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
  10271. cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
  10272. which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
  10273. close based on processing a cell on it.
  10274. - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
  10275. certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
  10276. bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
  10277. - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
  10278. OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
  10279. Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
  10280. "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
  10281. cells were introduced.
  10282. o Trivial fixes:
  10283. - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
  10284. bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
  10285. Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
  10286. Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
  10287. anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
  10288. users. Everybody should upgrade.
  10289. This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
  10290. protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
  10291. o Major features:
  10292. - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
  10293. each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
  10294. than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
  10295. future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
  10296. - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
  10297. Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
  10298. o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
  10299. - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
  10300. outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
  10301. use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
  10302. its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
  10303. or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
  10304. Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
  10305. - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
  10306. no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
  10307. circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
  10308. CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
  10309. - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
  10310. that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
  10311. to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
  10312. protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
  10313. the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
  10314. "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
  10315. to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
  10316. guard relays.
  10317. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  10318. - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
  10319. a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
  10320. descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
  10321. immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
  10322. service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
  10323. fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
  10324. during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
  10325. - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
  10326. unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
  10327. to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
  10328. descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
  10329. Partly fixes bug 3825.
  10330. - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
  10331. hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
  10332. launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
  10333. which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
  10334. actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
  10335. new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
  10336. found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
  10337. o Major bugfixes (other):
  10338. - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
  10339. that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
  10340. connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
  10341. enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10342. Found by "frosty_un".
  10343. - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
  10344. tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
  10345. estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
  10346. interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
  10347. on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
  10348. immensely in tracking this bug down.
  10349. - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
  10350. is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
  10351. by "Tey'".
  10352. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  10353. - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
  10354. circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
  10355. intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
  10356. is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
  10357. circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
  10358. - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
  10359. successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
  10360. - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
  10361. Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
  10362. bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
  10363. - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
  10364. man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
  10365. bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  10366. - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
  10367. failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
  10368. if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
  10369. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
  10370. - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
  10371. IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
  10372. 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
  10373. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
  10374. - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
  10375. script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
  10376. bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  10377. - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
  10378. Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
  10379. we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
  10380. address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
  10381. - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
  10382. ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
  10383. fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
  10384. o Minor features:
  10385. - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
  10386. trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
  10387. HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
  10388. descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
  10389. - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
  10390. a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
  10391. version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
  10392. ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
  10393. - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
  10394. descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
  10395. it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
  10396. fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
  10397. 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
  10398. - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10399. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  10400. - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
  10401. we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
  10402. is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
  10403. - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
  10404. "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
  10405. "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
  10406. should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
  10407. Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
  10408. Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
  10409. can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
  10410. The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
  10411. when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
  10412. the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
  10413. identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
  10414. is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
  10415. attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
  10416. of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
  10417. discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
  10418. 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
  10419. for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
  10420. release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
  10421. the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
  10422. "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
  10423. Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
  10424. certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
  10425. remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
  10426. currently connected to them.
  10427. This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
  10428. to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
  10429. remain; see for example proposal 188.
  10430. o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
  10431. - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
  10432. outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
  10433. use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
  10434. its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
  10435. or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
  10436. Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
  10437. - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
  10438. no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
  10439. circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
  10440. CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
  10441. - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
  10442. that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
  10443. to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
  10444. protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
  10445. the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
  10446. "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
  10447. to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
  10448. guard relays.
  10449. o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
  10450. - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
  10451. connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
  10452. directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
  10453. avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
  10454. - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
  10455. way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
  10456. enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  10457. when bridges were introduced.
  10458. - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
  10459. that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
  10460. connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
  10461. enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10462. Found by "frosty_un".
  10463. o Major bugfixes:
  10464. - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
  10465. is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
  10466. by "Tey'".
  10467. - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
  10468. hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
  10469. launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
  10470. which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
  10471. actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
  10472. new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
  10473. found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
  10474. o Minor bugfixes:
  10475. - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
  10476. that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
  10477. from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
  10478. - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
  10479. circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
  10480. intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
  10481. is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
  10482. circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
  10483. - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
  10484. Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
  10485. bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
  10486. - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
  10487. failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
  10488. if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
  10489. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
  10490. - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
  10491. IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
  10492. 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
  10493. o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
  10494. - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
  10495. man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
  10496. bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  10497. - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
  10498. a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
  10499. version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
  10500. ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
  10501. - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
  10502. "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
  10503. intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
  10504. bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  10505. o Minor features:
  10506. - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
  10507. extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
  10508. Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
  10509. - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10510. Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
  10511. Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
  10512. oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
  10513. others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
  10514. using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
  10515. o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  10516. - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
  10517. with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
  10518. compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
  10519. adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
  10520. sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
  10521. implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
  10522. - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
  10523. addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
  10524. somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  10525. o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  10526. - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
  10527. outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
  10528. use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
  10529. its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
  10530. or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
  10531. Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
  10532. - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
  10533. no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
  10534. circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
  10535. CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
  10536. - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
  10537. that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
  10538. connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
  10539. enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10540. Found by "frosty_un".
  10541. - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
  10542. the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
  10543. hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
  10544. wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
  10545. a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
  10546. with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  10547. - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
  10548. all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
  10549. SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  10550. - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
  10551. requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
  10552. descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
  10553. Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10554. - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
  10555. NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
  10556. circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
  10557. long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
  10558. Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
  10559. 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
  10560. o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  10561. - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
  10562. from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
  10563. triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
  10564. routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
  10565. bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
  10566. like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
  10567. REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
  10568. fixes bug 1172.
  10569. - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
  10570. enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
  10571. - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
  10572. anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
  10573. - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
  10574. None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
  10575. this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
  10576. - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
  10577. with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
  10578. 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
  10579. - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
  10580. the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
  10581. John Brooks.
  10582. - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
  10583. heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10584. - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
  10585. give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10586. - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
  10587. exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  10588. - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
  10589. example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
  10590. and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
  10591. on 0.0.9pre6.
  10592. - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
  10593. Fixes bug 3208.
  10594. - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
  10595. passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
  10596. smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
  10597. CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  10598. - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
  10599. about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
  10600. could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
  10601. Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  10602. o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
  10603. - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
  10604. rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
  10605. - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
  10606. micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
  10607. o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
  10608. - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
  10609. better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
  10610. - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
  10611. - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10612. Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
  10613. Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
  10614. bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
  10615. today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
  10616. once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
  10617. o Security fixes:
  10618. - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
  10619. connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
  10620. directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
  10621. avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
  10622. - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
  10623. way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
  10624. enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  10625. when bridges were introduced.
  10626. o Major bugfixes:
  10627. - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
  10628. occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
  10629. objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  10630. o Major features (networking):
  10631. - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
  10632. more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
  10633. performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
  10634. bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
  10635. Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
  10636. Florian Tschorsch.
  10637. o Minor bugfixes:
  10638. - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
  10639. that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
  10640. from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
  10641. o Minor bugfixes (usability):
  10642. - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
  10643. "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
  10644. intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
  10645. bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  10646. o Minor features (diagnostics):
  10647. - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
  10648. error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
  10649. Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
  10650. Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
  10651. tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
  10652. this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
  10653. bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
  10654. listed in the network consensus and republish.
  10655. o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
  10656. - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
  10657. TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
  10658. 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  10659. o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
  10660. - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
  10661. INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
  10662. the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
  10663. by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
  10664. rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
  10665. alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
  10666. that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
  10667. on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
  10668. but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
  10669. this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
  10670. o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
  10671. - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
  10672. better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
  10673. - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
  10674. a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
  10675. Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
  10676. - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
  10677. authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
  10678. consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
  10679. - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10680. o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
  10681. - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
  10682. service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
  10683. INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
  10684. log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
  10685. fixes part of bug 2442.
  10686. - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
  10687. level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
  10688. to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
  10689. of bug 2442.
  10690. - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
  10691. HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
  10692. message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
  10693. given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
  10694. was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10695. o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
  10696. - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
  10697. BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
  10698. - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
  10699. Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
  10700. o Major bugfixes:
  10701. - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
  10702. ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
  10703. option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
  10704. Fabian Keil.
  10705. o Major features:
  10706. - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
  10707. frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
  10708. version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
  10709. old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
  10710. to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
  10711. though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
  10712. descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
  10713. o Minor features:
  10714. - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
  10715. in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
  10716. make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
  10717. - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
  10718. control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
  10719. that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
  10720. run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
  10721. o Minor bugfixes:
  10722. - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
  10723. utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
  10724. ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
  10725. happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
  10726. message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
  10727. command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  10728. - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
  10729. all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
  10730. Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  10731. o Code refactoring:
  10732. - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
  10733. connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
  10734. Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
  10735. Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
  10736. TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
  10737. reachable from Iran again.
  10738. o Major bugfixes:
  10739. - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
  10740. TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
  10741. 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
  10742. o Minor features (security):
  10743. - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
  10744. INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
  10745. the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
  10746. by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
  10747. rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
  10748. alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
  10749. that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
  10750. on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
  10751. but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
  10752. this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
  10753. o Minor features:
  10754. - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
  10755. better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
  10756. - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
  10757. a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
  10758. Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
  10759. - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
  10760. authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
  10761. consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
  10762. - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10763. o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
  10764. - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
  10765. CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
  10766. is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
  10767. when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
  10768. raised by bug 3898.
  10769. - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
  10770. service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
  10771. INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
  10772. log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
  10773. fixes part of bug 2442.
  10774. - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
  10775. level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
  10776. to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
  10777. of bug 2442.
  10778. - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
  10779. HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
  10780. message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
  10781. given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
  10782. was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10783. o Build fixes:
  10784. - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
  10785. apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  10786. - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
  10787. BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
  10788. - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
  10789. Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
  10790. Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
  10791. Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
  10792. security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
  10793. and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
  10794. series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
  10795. bufferevent-based networking backend.
  10796. o Major features (stream isolation):
  10797. - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
  10798. applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
  10799. attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
  10800. linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
  10801. to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
  10802. SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
  10803. SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
  10804. SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
  10805. degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
  10806. - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
  10807. SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
  10808. multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
  10809. The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
  10810. mix it with the new *Port syntax.
  10811. o Major features (other):
  10812. - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
  10813. clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
  10814. To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
  10815. descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
  10816. - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
  10817. "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
  10818. - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
  10819. "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
  10820. the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
  10821. connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
  10822. This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
  10823. disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
  10824. torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
  10825. o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
  10826. - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
  10827. threading support.
  10828. - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
  10829. the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
  10830. Fixes part of bug 3752.
  10831. - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
  10832. bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
  10833. and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
  10834. - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
  10835. bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
  10836. buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
  10837. are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
  10838. - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
  10839. bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
  10840. buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
  10841. enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
  10842. - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
  10843. without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
  10844. - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
  10845. streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
  10846. - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
  10847. buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
  10848. o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
  10849. - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
  10850. them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
  10851. we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
  10852. and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
  10853. bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
  10854. o Minor features:
  10855. - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
  10856. of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
  10857. user. Implements ticket 1692.
  10858. - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
  10859. leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
  10860. best copy data out of a buffer.
  10861. - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
  10862. include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
  10863. keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
  10864. o Minor features (build compatibility):
  10865. - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
  10866. - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
  10867. apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
  10868. o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
  10869. - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10870. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
  10871. - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
  10872. bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
  10873. - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
  10874. with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
  10875. request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
  10876. non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
  10877. o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
  10878. - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
  10879. CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
  10880. is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
  10881. when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
  10882. raised by bug 3898.
  10883. - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
  10884. behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
  10885. the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
  10886. 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  10887. o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
  10888. - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
  10889. mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
  10890. 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
  10891. that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
  10892. hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
  10893. utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
  10894. we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
  10895. assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
  10896. the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
  10897. the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
  10898. would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10899. - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
  10900. started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
  10901. - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
  10902. message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
  10903. 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
  10904. - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
  10905. as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
  10906. on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10907. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  10908. - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
  10909. we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
  10910. we want.
  10911. o Build changes:
  10912. - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
  10913. 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
  10914. SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
  10915. work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
  10916. Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
  10917. introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
  10918. Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
  10919. The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
  10920. Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
  10921. a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
  10922. and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
  10923. to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
  10924. could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
  10925. I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
  10926. world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
  10927. initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
  10928. Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
  10929. ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
  10930. client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
  10931. for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
  10932. one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
  10933. better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
  10934. many many other features and bugfixes.
  10935. Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
  10936. Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
  10937. for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
  10938. o Major bugfixes:
  10939. - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
  10940. message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
  10941. 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
  10942. - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
  10943. them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
  10944. we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
  10945. and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
  10946. bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
  10947. o Minor features:
  10948. - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  10949. o Minor bugfixes:
  10950. - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
  10951. we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
  10952. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10953. - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
  10954. mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
  10955. 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
  10956. that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
  10957. hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
  10958. utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
  10959. we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
  10960. assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
  10961. the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
  10962. the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
  10963. would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  10964. - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
  10965. started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
  10966. - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
  10967. as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
  10968. on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  10969. Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
  10970. Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
  10971. microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
  10972. up a variety of recently introduced features.
  10973. o Major features:
  10974. - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
  10975. to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
  10976. summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
  10977. very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
  10978. designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
  10979. connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
  10980. support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
  10981. version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
  10982. - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
  10983. 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
  10984. censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
  10985. plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
  10986. - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
  10987. fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
  10988. in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
  10989. diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
  10990. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
  10991. - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
  10992. 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
  10993. random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
  10994. order. Fixes bug 2798.
  10995. - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
  10996. flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
  10997. - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
  10998. policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
  10999. - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
  11000. uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
  11001. bug 3601.
  11002. o Minor features:
  11003. - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
  11004. - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
  11005. handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
  11006. don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
  11007. bug 1666.
  11008. - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
  11009. enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
  11010. the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
  11011. - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
  11012. cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
  11013. microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
  11014. structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
  11015. - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
  11016. HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
  11017. Implements ticket 3264.
  11018. - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
  11019. implements ticket 3439.
  11020. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
  11021. - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
  11022. because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
  11023. - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
  11024. is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
  11025. - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
  11026. they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
  11027. of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
  11028. - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
  11029. SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
  11030. event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
  11031. immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
  11032. command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
  11033. - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
  11034. reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
  11035. by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
  11036. - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
  11037. Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
  11038. - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
  11039. are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
  11040. - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
  11041. - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
  11042. control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
  11043. - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
  11044. fails. Spotted by coverity.
  11045. - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
  11046. present. Found by coverity.
  11047. - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
  11048. a directory cache that provides them.
  11049. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
  11050. - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
  11051. using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
  11052. client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
  11053. but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
  11054. side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
  11055. bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11056. - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
  11057. unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
  11058. resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  11059. - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
  11060. we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
  11061. bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11062. - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
  11063. on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
  11064. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  11065. - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
  11066. code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
  11067. should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
  11068. a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
  11069. - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
  11070. This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
  11071. one of them fails.
  11072. - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
  11073. connection type.
  11074. o Build changes:
  11075. - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
  11076. are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
  11077. if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
  11078. Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
  11079. Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
  11080. series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
  11081. Please test it and let us know whether it is!
  11082. o Minor bugfixes:
  11083. - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
  11084. resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
  11085. discovered by katmagic.
  11086. - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
  11087. passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
  11088. smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
  11089. CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  11090. - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
  11091. about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
  11092. could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
  11093. Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  11094. - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
  11095. events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
  11096. fixes part of bug 3465.
  11097. - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
  11098. service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
  11099. on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  11100. o Minor features:
  11101. - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11102. Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
  11103. Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
  11104. have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
  11105. us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
  11106. and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
  11107. o Major bugfixes:
  11108. - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
  11109. When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
  11110. are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
  11111. in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
  11112. Partial resolution for bug 3354.
  11113. o Privacy fixes:
  11114. - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
  11115. NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
  11116. circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
  11117. long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
  11118. Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
  11119. 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
  11120. o Minor bugfixes:
  11121. - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
  11122. directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
  11123. the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
  11124. bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  11125. - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
  11126. expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
  11127. it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
  11128. CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
  11129. (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
  11130. string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
  11131. fixes part of bug 3407.
  11132. - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
  11133. expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
  11134. might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
  11135. 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
  11136. - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
  11137. Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
  11138. negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
  11139. Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
  11140. - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
  11141. with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
  11142. 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  11143. - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
  11144. client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
  11145. reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
  11146. - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
  11147. o Minor features:
  11148. - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11149. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  11150. - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
  11151. - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
  11152. coverity.
  11153. - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
  11154. by coverity.
  11155. - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
  11156. Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
  11157. Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
  11158. fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
  11159. we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
  11160. and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
  11161. died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
  11162. usability issue.
  11163. o Major bugfixes:
  11164. - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
  11165. This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
  11166. consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
  11167. bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  11168. - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
  11169. - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
  11170. don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
  11171. 0.2.2.26-beta.
  11172. - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
  11173. accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
  11174. - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
  11175. based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
  11176. circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
  11177. it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
  11178. entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
  11179. - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
  11180. circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
  11181. for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
  11182. have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
  11183. 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
  11184. to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
  11185. on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
  11186. - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
  11187. bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
  11188. Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
  11189. but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
  11190. would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
  11191. fixes bug 3321.
  11192. o Major features:
  11193. - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
  11194. TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
  11195. that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
  11196. - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
  11197. now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
  11198. If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
  11199. configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
  11200. make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
  11201. so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
  11202. user on startup.
  11203. o Minor bugfixes:
  11204. - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
  11205. - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
  11206. output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
  11207. on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  11208. - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
  11209. Fixes bug 3270.
  11210. - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
  11211. to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
  11212. HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
  11213. - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
  11214. part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11215. - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
  11216. warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
  11217. in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
  11218. info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
  11219. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11220. - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
  11221. hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
  11222. Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
  11223. NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
  11224. to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
  11225. fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
  11226. fixes bug 3309.
  11227. - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
  11228. bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
  11229. 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11230. - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
  11231. bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
  11232. through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  11233. o Minor features:
  11234. - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
  11235. so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
  11236. Resolves ticket 3252.
  11237. - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
  11238. instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
  11239. more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
  11240. to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
  11241. - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
  11242. state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
  11243. o Removed options:
  11244. - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
  11245. anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
  11246. Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
  11247. Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
  11248. release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
  11249. o Major bugfixes:
  11250. - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
  11251. Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  11252. - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
  11253. seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
  11254. 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
  11255. o Minor bugfixes:
  11256. - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
  11257. Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
  11258. - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
  11259. Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
  11260. Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
  11261. - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
  11262. that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
  11263. put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
  11264. only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
  11265. bug 3200.
  11266. Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
  11267. Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
  11268. also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
  11269. easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
  11270. cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
  11271. o Security/privacy fixes:
  11272. - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
  11273. with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
  11274. compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
  11275. adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
  11276. sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
  11277. implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
  11278. - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
  11279. the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
  11280. hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
  11281. wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
  11282. a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
  11283. with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11284. - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
  11285. DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
  11286. NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11287. o Major features:
  11288. - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
  11289. value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
  11290. new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
  11291. actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
  11292. ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
  11293. group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
  11294. system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
  11295. part of ticket 3076.
  11296. - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
  11297. help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
  11298. because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
  11299. issue 2850.
  11300. o Minor features:
  11301. - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
  11302. a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
  11303. given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
  11304. "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
  11305. chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
  11306. - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
  11307. it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
  11308. group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
  11309. ticket 2972.
  11310. - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
  11311. world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
  11312. is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
  11313. enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
  11314. directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
  11315. - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
  11316. documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
  11317. - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
  11318. clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
  11319. - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
  11320. what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
  11321. Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
  11322. - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11323. o Minor bugfixes:
  11324. - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
  11325. reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
  11326. This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
  11327. on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
  11328. - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
  11329. example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
  11330. and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
  11331. on 0.0.9pre6.
  11332. - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
  11333. cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
  11334. holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
  11335. do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
  11336. - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
  11337. RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
  11338. man page. Resolves issue 2379.
  11339. - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
  11340. ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
  11341. it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
  11342. - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
  11343. service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
  11344. helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
  11345. have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
  11346. and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
  11347. we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
  11348. 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11349. - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
  11350. hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
  11351. 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11352. - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
  11353. for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
  11354. 0.1.1.19-rc.
  11355. - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
  11356. any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
  11357. on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11358. - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
  11359. re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
  11360. bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  11361. o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
  11362. - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
  11363. In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
  11364. without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
  11365. 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  11366. Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
  11367. - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
  11368. at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
  11369. of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
  11370. - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
  11371. consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
  11372. clang's analyzer.
  11373. - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
  11374. cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
  11375. 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
  11376. - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
  11377. warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
  11378. 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
  11379. - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
  11380. where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
  11381. for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
  11382. incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
  11383. values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11384. - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
  11385. have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
  11386. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11387. o Removed features:
  11388. - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
  11389. unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
  11390. haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
  11391. bug 3022.
  11392. Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
  11393. Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
  11394. for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
  11395. microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
  11396. home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
  11397. to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
  11398. This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
  11399. bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
  11400. stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
  11401. o Major features:
  11402. - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
  11403. backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
  11404. have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
  11405. --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
  11406. source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
  11407. let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
  11408. zero-copy transports where available.
  11409. - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
  11410. Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
  11411. performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
  11412. try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
  11413. with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
  11414. your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
  11415. debug it as it breaks.
  11416. - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
  11417. addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
  11418. because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
  11419. date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
  11420. - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
  11421. Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
  11422. connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
  11423. clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
  11424. having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
  11425. from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
  11426. - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
  11427. home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
  11428. Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
  11429. library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
  11430. feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
  11431. "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
  11432. PortForwarding option.
  11433. - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
  11434. consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
  11435. - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
  11436. summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
  11437. directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
  11438. clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
  11439. by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
  11440. o Minor features:
  11441. - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
  11442. option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
  11443. Implements enhancement 1668.
  11444. - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
  11445. 2444.
  11446. - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
  11447. 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
  11448. There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
  11449. behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
  11450. - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
  11451. statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
  11452. Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
  11453. 2702.
  11454. - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
  11455. many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
  11456. - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
  11457. extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
  11458. - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  11459. bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
  11460. - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
  11461. enhancement 1883.
  11462. - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
  11463. consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
  11464. that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
  11465. - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
  11466. describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
  11467. operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
  11468. server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
  11469. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
  11470. - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
  11471. In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
  11472. without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
  11473. 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  11474. Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
  11475. - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
  11476. at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
  11477. of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
  11478. - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
  11479. legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
  11480. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
  11481. - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
  11482. reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
  11483. This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
  11484. on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  11485. o Minor features (controller):
  11486. - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
  11487. controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
  11488. issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
  11489. - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
  11490. from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
  11491. - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
  11492. the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
  11493. o Build changes:
  11494. - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
  11495. Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
  11496. This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
  11497. people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
  11498. the Makefile.am files should be fine.
  11499. - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
  11500. so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
  11501. associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
  11502. o Minor packaging issues:
  11503. - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
  11504. already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
  11505. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  11506. - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
  11507. Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
  11508. "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
  11509. and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
  11510. microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
  11511. without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
  11512. Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
  11513. interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
  11514. of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
  11515. - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
  11516. no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
  11517. our library structure used to force them to link it.
  11518. o Removed features:
  11519. - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
  11520. used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
  11521. are no longer in use as servers.
  11522. o Documentation fixes:
  11523. - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
  11524. - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
  11525. RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
  11526. issue 2379.
  11527. Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
  11528. Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
  11529. robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
  11530. a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
  11531. now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
  11532. provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
  11533. working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
  11534. StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
  11535. understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
  11536. please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
  11537. o Major bugfixes:
  11538. - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
  11539. they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
  11540. correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
  11541. state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
  11542. - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
  11543. extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
  11544. listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
  11545. have, retry with an introduction point from the current
  11546. descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
  11547. 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11548. - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
  11549. destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
  11550. Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  11551. - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
  11552. NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
  11553. 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
  11554. o Security and stability fixes:
  11555. - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
  11556. it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
  11557. microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
  11558. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
  11559. - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
  11560. nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
  11561. Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
  11562. "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
  11563. behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
  11564. useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
  11565. introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
  11566. - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
  11567. heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11568. - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
  11569. all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
  11570. SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11571. o Major features:
  11572. - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
  11573. have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
  11574. can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
  11575. contributions to the network.
  11576. o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
  11577. - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
  11578. ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
  11579. options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
  11580. counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
  11581. 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
  11582. through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
  11583. surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
  11584. . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
  11585. a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
  11586. . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
  11587. first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
  11588. connections to directory servers.
  11589. . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
  11590. . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
  11591. StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
  11592. ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
  11593. StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
  11594. whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
  11595. perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
  11596. hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
  11597. information, or fetch directory information.
  11598. Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
  11599. - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
  11600. a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
  11601. - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
  11602. StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
  11603. Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
  11604. unless you really want your Tor to break.
  11605. - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
  11606. - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
  11607. - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
  11608. - When StrictNodes is 1:
  11609. . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
  11610. and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
  11611. can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
  11612. . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
  11613. reachability self-tests.
  11614. . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
  11615. even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
  11616. . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
  11617. - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
  11618. when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  11619. - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
  11620. introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
  11621. 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11622. - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
  11623. if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11624. - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
  11625. circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
  11626. a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
  11627. code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  11628. - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
  11629. given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
  11630. between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
  11631. "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
  11632. - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
  11633. o Minor bugfixes:
  11634. - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
  11635. month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
  11636. 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
  11637. - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
  11638. stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
  11639. we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
  11640. - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
  11641. Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
  11642. - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
  11643. connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
  11644. look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
  11645. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11646. - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
  11647. counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
  11648. in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
  11649. - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
  11650. the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
  11651. John Brooks.
  11652. - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
  11653. service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
  11654. DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
  11655. eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
  11656. DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  11657. - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
  11658. Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  11659. - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
  11660. 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  11661. - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
  11662. HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
  11663. operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
  11664. - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
  11665. rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
  11666. trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
  11667. bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  11668. - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
  11669. get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
  11670. Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
  11671. feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
  11672. o Minor features:
  11673. - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
  11674. Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
  11675. file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
  11676. estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
  11677. - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
  11678. Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
  11679. clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
  11680. - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
  11681. Required by fix for bug 3000.
  11682. - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
  11683. by fix for bug 3000.
  11684. - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
  11685. to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
  11686. o Code simplification and refactoring:
  11687. - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
  11688. that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
  11689. send a body too). Since only server versions before
  11690. 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
  11691. keep the workaround in place.
  11692. - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
  11693. handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
  11694. an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
  11695. places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
  11696. still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
  11697. want to do it differently.
  11698. - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
  11699. None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
  11700. this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
  11701. - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
  11702. Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
  11703. Gisle Vanem.
  11704. Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
  11705. Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
  11706. prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
  11707. that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
  11708. can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
  11709. o Major bugfixes:
  11710. - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
  11711. address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
  11712. address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
  11713. able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
  11714. addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
  11715. bug 2510.
  11716. - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
  11717. configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
  11718. to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
  11719. a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
  11720. dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
  11721. - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
  11722. uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
  11723. to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
  11724. its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
  11725. set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
  11726. a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
  11727. fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
  11728. o Minor bugfixes:
  11729. - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
  11730. from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
  11731. triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
  11732. routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
  11733. bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
  11734. like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
  11735. REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
  11736. fixes bug 1172.
  11737. - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
  11738. relays that have failed several reachability tests became
  11739. unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
  11740. Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
  11741. - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
  11742. some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
  11743. versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
  11744. the --with-static-libevent configure option).
  11745. - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
  11746. for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
  11747. that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
  11748. other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
  11749. it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
  11750. had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
  11751. should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
  11752. released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
  11753. - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
  11754. transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
  11755. 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
  11756. connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
  11757. bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
  11758. - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
  11759. give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11760. o Minor features:
  11761. - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
  11762. networkstatus vote.
  11763. - Make compilation with clang possible when using
  11764. --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
  11765. hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
  11766. ticket 2696.
  11767. - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
  11768. one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
  11769. circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
  11770. near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
  11771. timeout values.
  11772. - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
  11773. parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
  11774. we would retry after 15 seconds.)
  11775. - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11776. o Packaging fixes:
  11777. - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
  11778. not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
  11779. o Documentation changes:
  11780. - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
  11781. - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
  11782. Fixes bug 2705.
  11783. - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
  11784. Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
  11785. Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
  11786. they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
  11787. release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
  11788. relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
  11789. clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
  11790. o Major bugfixes:
  11791. - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  11792. we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
  11793. Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
  11794. that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
  11795. the rest of bug 1074.
  11796. - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
  11797. addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
  11798. somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  11799. - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
  11800. requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
  11801. descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
  11802. Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  11803. - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
  11804. Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
  11805. potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
  11806. 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
  11807. - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
  11808. hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
  11809. publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11810. o Major features:
  11811. - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
  11812. state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
  11813. so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
  11814. restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
  11815. estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
  11816. - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
  11817. ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
  11818. if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
  11819. treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
  11820. calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
  11821. change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
  11822. - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
  11823. Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
  11824. attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
  11825. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
  11826. - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
  11827. with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
  11828. 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
  11829. - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
  11830. transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
  11831. bug 2279.
  11832. - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
  11833. found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
  11834. Tor release, in svn commit r110.
  11835. - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
  11836. don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
  11837. spotted by keb and G-Lo.
  11838. - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
  11839. triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
  11840. granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
  11841. Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  11842. - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
  11843. as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
  11844. continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
  11845. partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
  11846. going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
  11847. really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
  11848. Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
  11849. - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
  11850. bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
  11851. hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
  11852. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
  11853. - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
  11854. correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
  11855. bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  11856. - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
  11857. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
  11858. "piebeer".
  11859. - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
  11860. on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
  11861. - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
  11862. when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
  11863. or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
  11864. incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
  11865. bug 1035.
  11866. - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
  11867. configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
  11868. command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
  11869. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  11870. - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
  11871. selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
  11872. bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
  11873. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
  11874. - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
  11875. error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
  11876. Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
  11877. - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
  11878. with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
  11879. Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
  11880. - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
  11881. publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
  11882. on 0.2.2.22-alpha.
  11883. o Minor features:
  11884. - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
  11885. some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
  11886. - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
  11887. accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
  11888. - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
  11889. IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
  11890. a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
  11891. ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
  11892. in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
  11893. proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
  11894. "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
  11895. - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
  11896. allocation error.
  11897. - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11898. o Minor features (log subsystem):
  11899. - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
  11900. different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
  11901. but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
  11902. bug 2215.
  11903. - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
  11904. Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
  11905. "[~A,~B]".
  11906. - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
  11907. messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
  11908. to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
  11909. of guessing.
  11910. o Packaging changes:
  11911. - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
  11912. in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
  11913. git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
  11914. Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
  11915. Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
  11916. change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
  11917. and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
  11918. We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
  11919. buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
  11920. o Major bugfixes:
  11921. - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  11922. we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
  11923. Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
  11924. that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
  11925. the rest of bug 1074.
  11926. - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
  11927. remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  11928. Found by "piebeer".
  11929. - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
  11930. Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
  11931. potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
  11932. 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
  11933. - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
  11934. hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
  11935. publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  11936. o Minor features:
  11937. - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
  11938. Apache's mod_ssl.
  11939. - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  11940. o Minor bugfixes:
  11941. - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
  11942. directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
  11943. Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
  11944. - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
  11945. acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
  11946. getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
  11947. path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
  11948. its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
  11949. OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
  11950. if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
  11951. running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  11952. o Packaging changes:
  11953. - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
  11954. in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
  11955. git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
  11956. - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
  11957. generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
  11958. between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
  11959. Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
  11960. Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
  11961. main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
  11962. relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
  11963. We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
  11964. will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
  11965. o Major bugfixes:
  11966. - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
  11967. remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  11968. Found by "piebeer".
  11969. - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
  11970. via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
  11971. initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
  11972. bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
  11973. o Minor features:
  11974. - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
  11975. Apache's mod_ssl.
  11976. - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
  11977. instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
  11978. Implements ticket 2432.
  11979. o Minor bugfixes:
  11980. - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
  11981. directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
  11982. Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
  11983. Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
  11984. Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
  11985. continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
  11986. a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
  11987. execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
  11988. and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
  11989. o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
  11990. - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
  11991. corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
  11992. attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
  11993. 0.1.2.10-rc.
  11994. - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
  11995. zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
  11996. high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
  11997. - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
  11998. bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
  11999. "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
  12000. to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
  12001. permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
  12002. o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
  12003. - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
  12004. This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
  12005. if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
  12006. Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
  12007. Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
  12008. - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
  12009. underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
  12010. - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
  12011. cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
  12012. memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
  12013. on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
  12014. - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
  12015. malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
  12016. Found by doorss.
  12017. o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
  12018. - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
  12019. requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
  12020. bug reported by doorss.
  12021. - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
  12022. has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
  12023. be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  12024. - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
  12025. addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
  12026. on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  12027. - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
  12028. no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
  12029. 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
  12030. - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
  12031. address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  12032. o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
  12033. - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12034. - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
  12035. o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
  12036. - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
  12037. added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
  12038. Automake 1.7 or later.
  12039. - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
  12040. because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
  12041. release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
  12042. among really fast exit relays on Linux.
  12043. o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
  12044. - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
  12045. parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
  12046. on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  12047. o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
  12048. - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
  12049. from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
  12050. or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
  12051. o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
  12052. - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
  12053. used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
  12054. - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
  12055. retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
  12056. 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
  12057. - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
  12058. and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
  12059. reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
  12060. get through.
  12061. - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
  12062. build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
  12063. - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
  12064. Resolves bug 2314.
  12065. o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
  12066. - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
  12067. than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
  12068. on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
  12069. - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
  12070. base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
  12071. comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
  12072. but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
  12073. - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
  12074. versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
  12075. implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
  12076. functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
  12077. 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
  12078. o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
  12079. - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
  12080. tor-resolve.
  12081. Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
  12082. Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
  12083. fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
  12084. code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
  12085. most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
  12086. o Major bugfixes (security):
  12087. - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
  12088. corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
  12089. attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
  12090. 0.1.2.10-rc.
  12091. - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
  12092. zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
  12093. high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
  12094. - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
  12095. bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
  12096. "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
  12097. to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
  12098. permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
  12099. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  12100. - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
  12101. This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
  12102. if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
  12103. Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
  12104. Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
  12105. - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
  12106. underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
  12107. - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
  12108. cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
  12109. memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
  12110. on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
  12111. - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
  12112. malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
  12113. Found by doorss.
  12114. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  12115. - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
  12116. requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
  12117. bug reported by doorss.
  12118. - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
  12119. has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
  12120. be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  12121. - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
  12122. addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
  12123. on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  12124. - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
  12125. no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
  12126. 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
  12127. - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
  12128. address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  12129. - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
  12130. because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
  12131. release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
  12132. among really fast exit relays on Linux.
  12133. o Minor features:
  12134. - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12135. - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
  12136. o Build changes:
  12137. - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
  12138. added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
  12139. Automake 1.7 or later.
  12140. Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
  12141. Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
  12142. exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
  12143. change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
  12144. the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
  12145. o Major bugfixes:
  12146. - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
  12147. of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
  12148. hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
  12149. upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
  12150. - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
  12151. time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
  12152. Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
  12153. - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
  12154. would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
  12155. to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
  12156. from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
  12157. fix by boboper.
  12158. - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
  12159. circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
  12160. destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
  12161. introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
  12162. o Directory authority changes:
  12163. - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  12164. o Minor bugfixes:
  12165. - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
  12166. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
  12167. - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
  12168. argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
  12169. the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
  12170. boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
  12171. - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
  12172. extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
  12173. Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
  12174. o Minor features:
  12175. - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12176. - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
  12177. Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
  12178. known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
  12179. circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
  12180. - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
  12181. older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
  12182. current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
  12183. - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
  12184. exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
  12185. task 2196.
  12186. Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
  12187. Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
  12188. exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
  12189. for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
  12190. we ship.
  12191. o Major bugfixes:
  12192. - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
  12193. of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
  12194. hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
  12195. upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
  12196. o Directory authority changes:
  12197. - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
  12198. o Minor features:
  12199. - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12200. Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
  12201. Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
  12202. Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
  12203. also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
  12204. directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
  12205. o Major bugfixes:
  12206. - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
  12207. No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
  12208. but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
  12209. it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
  12210. bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  12211. - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
  12212. freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
  12213. try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
  12214. of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
  12215. fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  12216. - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
  12217. we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  12218. where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
  12219. be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
  12220. - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
  12221. router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
  12222. we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
  12223. anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  12224. - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
  12225. bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
  12226. connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
  12227. hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
  12228. 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
  12229. o Major features:
  12230. - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
  12231. than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
  12232. count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
  12233. have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
  12234. o New directory authorities:
  12235. - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
  12236. authority.
  12237. o Minor bugfixes:
  12238. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
  12239. bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
  12240. network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
  12241. 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  12242. - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
  12243. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  12244. - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
  12245. seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
  12246. IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
  12247. were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
  12248. for analysis help.
  12249. - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
  12250. warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
  12251. pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
  12252. o Minor features:
  12253. - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
  12254. and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
  12255. stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
  12256. Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
  12257. it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
  12258. - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
  12259. Patch from mingw-san.
  12260. o Removed files:
  12261. - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
  12262. The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
  12263. https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
  12264. - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
  12265. changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
  12266. 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
  12267. Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
  12268. Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
  12269. Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
  12270. o Major bugfixes:
  12271. - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
  12272. No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
  12273. but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
  12274. it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
  12275. bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  12276. o Minor bugfixes:
  12277. - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
  12278. statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
  12279. fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
  12280. Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
  12281. - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
  12282. descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
  12283. descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
  12284. exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
  12285. consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
  12286. Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
  12287. Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
  12288. us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
  12289. address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
  12290. to a stable release.
  12291. o Major bugfixes:
  12292. - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
  12293. router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
  12294. we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
  12295. anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  12296. - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
  12297. freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
  12298. try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
  12299. of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
  12300. fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  12301. - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
  12302. we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
  12303. where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
  12304. be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
  12305. - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
  12306. outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
  12307. same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
  12308. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
  12309. - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
  12310. contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
  12311. identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
  12312. 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
  12313. - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
  12314. duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
  12315. but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
  12316. Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  12317. - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
  12318. setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
  12319. Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
  12320. - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
  12321. try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
  12322. exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
  12323. on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
  12324. o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
  12325. - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
  12326. a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
  12327. our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
  12328. successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
  12329. relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
  12330. - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
  12331. acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
  12332. getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
  12333. path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
  12334. its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
  12335. OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
  12336. if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
  12337. running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
  12338. - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
  12339. Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
  12340. TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
  12341. bug 1994.
  12342. - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
  12343. 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
  12344. - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
  12345. ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
  12346. but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
  12347. o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
  12348. - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
  12349. hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
  12350. enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
  12351. o Minor features:
  12352. - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
  12353. requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
  12354. DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
  12355. - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
  12356. warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
  12357. - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
  12358. relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
  12359. - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12360. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  12361. - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
  12362. RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
  12363. as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
  12364. active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
  12365. - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
  12366. when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
  12367. manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
  12368. - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
  12369. and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
  12370. - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
  12371. as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
  12372. - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
  12373. It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
  12374. and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
  12375. Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
  12376. Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
  12377. to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
  12378. plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
  12379. for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
  12380. big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
  12381. and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
  12382. client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
  12383. if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
  12384. o Major features:
  12385. - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
  12386. relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
  12387. a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
  12388. parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
  12389. relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
  12390. o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
  12391. - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
  12392. the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
  12393. daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
  12394. interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
  12395. 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
  12396. in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  12397. - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
  12398. nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
  12399. - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
  12400. bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
  12401. connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
  12402. hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
  12403. 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
  12404. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  12405. - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
  12406. bug 1797.
  12407. - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
  12408. no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
  12409. - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
  12410. relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
  12411. Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
  12412. recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
  12413. should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
  12414. not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
  12415. valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
  12416. - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
  12417. the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
  12418. at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
  12419. Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
  12420. actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
  12421. pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
  12422. that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
  12423. would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
  12424. to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  12425. o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
  12426. - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
  12427. This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
  12428. service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
  12429. notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
  12430. - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
  12431. unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
  12432. receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
  12433. full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
  12434. one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
  12435. circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
  12436. cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
  12437. with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
  12438. on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  12439. - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
  12440. the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
  12441. period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
  12442. value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  12443. o Minor features:
  12444. - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
  12445. circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
  12446. we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
  12447. knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
  12448. - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
  12449. accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
  12450. we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
  12451. our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
  12452. that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
  12453. whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
  12454. - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
  12455. our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
  12456. a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
  12457. - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
  12458. handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
  12459. right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
  12460. - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
  12461. ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
  12462. the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
  12463. Resolves bug 1929.
  12464. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
  12465. - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
  12466. based on the time during which we were active and not in
  12467. soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
  12468. also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
  12469. was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
  12470. by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
  12471. accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
  12472. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  12473. - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
  12474. which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
  12475. 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
  12476. - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
  12477. choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
  12478. 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
  12479. - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
  12480. authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
  12481. present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
  12482. Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
  12483. Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
  12484. evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
  12485. bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
  12486. o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
  12487. - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
  12488. to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
  12489. been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
  12490. oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
  12491. the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
  12492. given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
  12493. originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
  12494. first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
  12495. the longest-lived bug prize.
  12496. - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
  12497. reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
  12498. circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
  12499. some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
  12500. sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
  12501. on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
  12502. "yetonetime".
  12503. - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
  12504. even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
  12505. This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
  12506. blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
  12507. We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
  12508. getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
  12509. fixes bug 1298.
  12510. o Minor features:
  12511. - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12512. - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
  12513. not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
  12514. Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
  12515. - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
  12516. got suppressed since the last warning.
  12517. - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
  12518. do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
  12519. config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
  12520. both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
  12521. consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
  12522. 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
  12523. - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
  12524. a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
  12525. - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
  12526. 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
  12527. easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
  12528. as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
  12529. - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
  12530. of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
  12531. that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
  12532. - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
  12533. and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
  12534. one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
  12535. from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
  12536. closes bug 1138.
  12537. - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
  12538. warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
  12539. pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
  12540. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
  12541. - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
  12542. own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
  12543. means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
  12544. it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
  12545. will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
  12546. on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
  12547. - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
  12548. controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
  12549. same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
  12550. proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
  12551. - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
  12552. seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
  12553. IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
  12554. were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
  12555. for analysis help.
  12556. - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
  12557. - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
  12558. Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
  12559. it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
  12560. even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
  12561. OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  12562. - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
  12563. for close.
  12564. - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
  12565. it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
  12566. more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
  12567. 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
  12568. - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
  12569. bug 1848.
  12570. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  12571. - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
  12572. down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
  12573. bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
  12574. _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
  12575. then you could quickly run out of entry points.
  12576. - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
  12577. 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
  12578. some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
  12579. - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
  12580. bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
  12581. - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
  12582. was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
  12583. Reported by Moritz Bartl.
  12584. - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
  12585. This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
  12586. Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
  12587. non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
  12588. o Testing
  12589. - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
  12590. Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
  12591. Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
  12592. fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
  12593. experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
  12594. and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
  12595. trac lately.
  12596. o Major bugfixes:
  12597. - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
  12598. DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
  12599. fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
  12600. hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
  12601. to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
  12602. about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
  12603. 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
  12604. - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
  12605. bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
  12606. token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
  12607. update them if the config options change, and update them every time
  12608. we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
  12609. case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
  12610. but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
  12611. throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
  12612. - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
  12613. SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
  12614. o Major features:
  12615. - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
  12616. should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
  12617. improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
  12618. decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
  12619. they first get the Guard flag.
  12620. - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
  12621. Tor is running.
  12622. o Minor features:
  12623. - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
  12624. - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
  12625. "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
  12626. - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
  12627. file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
  12628. the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
  12629. - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
  12630. Patch from mingw-san.
  12631. - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
  12632. ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
  12633. bug 1094.
  12634. - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
  12635. requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
  12636. Implements enhancement 1790.
  12637. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
  12638. - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
  12639. include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
  12640. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
  12641. - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
  12642. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
  12643. - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
  12644. notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
  12645. functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
  12646. on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
  12647. - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
  12648. would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
  12649. ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
  12650. - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
  12651. work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
  12652. that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
  12653. descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
  12654. than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
  12655. 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
  12656. refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
  12657. it as a bridge.
  12658. - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
  12659. a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
  12660. on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
  12661. - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
  12662. and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
  12663. stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
  12664. Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
  12665. it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
  12666. 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
  12667. - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
  12668. when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
  12669. there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
  12670. and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
  12671. 932 even more.
  12672. - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
  12673. on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
  12674. Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
  12675. - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
  12676. when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
  12677. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  12678. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  12679. - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
  12680. as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
  12681. use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
  12682. Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
  12683. - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
  12684. didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
  12685. printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
  12686. - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
  12687. 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
  12688. old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
  12689. 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
  12690. on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  12691. - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
  12692. $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
  12693. '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
  12694. doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
  12695. 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
  12696. - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
  12697. "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
  12698. bug 1741.
  12699. - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
  12700. fixes bug 1832.
  12701. - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
  12702. implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  12703. - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
  12704. one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
  12705. time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
  12706. 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
  12707. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  12708. - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
  12709. function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
  12710. structures and defines in or.h for now.
  12711. - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
  12712. #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
  12713. - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
  12714. statistics code to be more easily tested.
  12715. - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
  12716. The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
  12717. https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
  12718. Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
  12719. Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
  12720. circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
  12721. performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
  12722. Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
  12723. add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
  12724. minor issues.
  12725. o Major bugfixes:
  12726. - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
  12727. cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
  12728. on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
  12729. - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
  12730. assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
  12731. - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
  12732. happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
  12733. asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
  12734. - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
  12735. Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
  12736. top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
  12737. multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
  12738. and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
  12739. fixes bug 1335.
  12740. - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
  12741. right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
  12742. synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
  12743. high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
  12744. times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
  12745. - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
  12746. the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
  12747. use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
  12748. on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
  12749. to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
  12750. can be controlled by the consensus.
  12751. o Major features:
  12752. - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
  12753. June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
  12754. how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
  12755. more accurate data for many African countries.
  12756. - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
  12757. the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
  12758. - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
  12759. to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
  12760. that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
  12761. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
  12762. with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
  12763. supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
  12764. related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
  12765. - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
  12766. to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
  12767. not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
  12768. o New directory authorities:
  12769. - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
  12770. authority.
  12771. o Minor features:
  12772. - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
  12773. occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
  12774. the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
  12775. than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
  12776. and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
  12777. - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
  12778. to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
  12779. what should go in a patch.
  12780. - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
  12781. event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
  12782. over our stored history.
  12783. - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
  12784. parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
  12785. automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
  12786. either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
  12787. file. Fixes bug 1296.
  12788. - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
  12789. in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
  12790. - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
  12791. system headers.
  12792. o Minor bugfixes:
  12793. - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
  12794. enabled.
  12795. - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
  12796. of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
  12797. - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
  12798. once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
  12799. once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
  12800. - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
  12801. some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
  12802. address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
  12803. user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
  12804. descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
  12805. fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
  12806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  12807. - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
  12808. an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
  12809. if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
  12810. - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
  12811. certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
  12812. - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
  12813. happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
  12814. we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
  12815. for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
  12816. two-hop circuits are actually created.
  12817. - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
  12818. Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  12819. - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
  12820. after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  12821. Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
  12822. Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
  12823. problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
  12824. DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
  12825. because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
  12826. This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
  12827. that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
  12828. o Major bugfixes:
  12829. - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
  12830. now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
  12831. for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
  12832. TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
  12833. unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
  12834. up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
  12835. and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
  12836. their directory fetches over TLS).
  12837. - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
  12838. that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
  12839. backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
  12840. behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
  12841. - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
  12842. directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
  12843. Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
  12844. to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
  12845. o Minor bugfixes:
  12846. - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
  12847. mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
  12848. every other relay.
  12849. o Testsuite fixes:
  12850. - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
  12851. worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  12852. - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
  12853. certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
  12854. window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
  12855. occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
  12856. compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  12857. Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
  12858. Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
  12859. problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
  12860. DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
  12861. because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
  12862. o Major bugfixes:
  12863. - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
  12864. now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
  12865. for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
  12866. TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
  12867. unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
  12868. up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
  12869. and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
  12870. their directory fetches over TLS).
  12871. o Minor features:
  12872. - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
  12873. mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
  12874. every other relay.
  12875. - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
  12876. as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
  12877. the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
  12878. in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
  12879. up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
  12880. - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
  12881. relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
  12882. the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
  12883. authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
  12884. hour of their uptime.
  12885. Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
  12886. Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
  12887. handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
  12888. the consensus.
  12889. o Major bugfixes:
  12890. - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
  12891. not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
  12892. a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
  12893. we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
  12894. other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
  12895. vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
  12896. on 0.2.1.23.
  12897. - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
  12898. and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
  12899. prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
  12900. 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  12901. - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
  12902. and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
  12903. 0.2.2.11-alpha.
  12904. o Minor bugfixes:
  12905. - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
  12906. someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
  12907. fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
  12908. on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  12909. Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
  12910. Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
  12911. libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
  12912. o Major bugfixes:
  12913. - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
  12914. directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
  12915. Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
  12916. to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
  12917. - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
  12918. CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
  12919. on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
  12920. CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
  12921. about the option without breaking older ones.
  12922. - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
  12923. that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
  12924. backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
  12925. behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
  12926. o Minor features:
  12927. - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
  12928. from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
  12929. out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
  12930. for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
  12931. how it goes!
  12932. - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
  12933. --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
  12934. openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
  12935. o Minor bugfixes:
  12936. - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
  12937. libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
  12938. fixes bug 1341.
  12939. - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
  12940. out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
  12941. - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
  12942. the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
  12943. tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
  12944. because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
  12945. the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  12946. - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
  12947. segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
  12948. didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
  12949. params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
  12950. o Testsuite fixes:
  12951. - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
  12952. worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  12953. - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
  12954. certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
  12955. window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
  12956. occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
  12957. compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  12958. Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
  12959. Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
  12960. could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
  12961. starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
  12962. currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
  12963. Guard flag and the Exit flag.
  12964. o Major bugfixes:
  12965. - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
  12966. to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
  12967. in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
  12968. 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
  12969. o Major features (performance):
  12970. - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
  12971. clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
  12972. and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
  12973. network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
  12974. weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
  12975. the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
  12976. security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
  12977. o Minor features (performance):
  12978. - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
  12979. even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
  12980. circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
  12981. not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
  12982. be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
  12983. a stable release.
  12984. o Minor features:
  12985. - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
  12986. speeds up the build considerably.
  12987. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
  12988. - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
  12989. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  12990. - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
  12991. config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  12992. - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
  12993. build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
  12994. doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
  12995. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
  12996. - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
  12997. descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
  12998. bug 1255.
  12999. - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
  13000. 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
  13001. - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
  13002. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
  13003. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  13004. - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
  13005. compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
  13006. - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
  13007. - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
  13008. building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
  13009. Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
  13010. Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
  13011. location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
  13012. o Directory authority changes:
  13013. - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
  13014. remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
  13015. service directory authority) from the list.
  13016. o Major bugfixes:
  13017. - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
  13018. use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
  13019. version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
  13020. Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
  13021. libraries in a security patch.
  13022. - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
  13023. that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
  13024. a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
  13025. requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
  13026. by aakova.
  13027. - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
  13028. that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
  13029. with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
  13030. 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
  13031. - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
  13032. the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
  13033. patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
  13034. o Minor bugfixes:
  13035. - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
  13036. order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
  13037. - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
  13038. stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
  13039. 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
  13040. if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
  13041. relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
  13042. might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
  13043. Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
  13044. - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
  13045. descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
  13046. for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
  13047. - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
  13048. "memcpyfail".
  13049. - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
  13050. behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
  13051. - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
  13052. - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
  13053. control-spec.txt said they were.
  13054. - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
  13055. Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
  13056. - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
  13057. must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
  13058. parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13059. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  13060. - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
  13061. change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
  13062. produce nicer HTML.
  13063. - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
  13064. Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
  13065. iPhone SDK versions.
  13066. - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
  13067. AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
  13068. website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
  13069. projects directory in svn.
  13070. - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
  13071. by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
  13072. parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
  13073. high latency links.
  13074. o Minor features:
  13075. - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
  13076. a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
  13077. a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
  13078. algorithms.
  13079. - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
  13080. to the circuit build timeout.
  13081. - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
  13082. arguments we do not recognize.
  13083. - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
  13084. coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
  13085. open() without checking it.
  13086. Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
  13087. Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
  13088. prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
  13089. several minor potential security bugs.
  13090. o Major bugfixes:
  13091. - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
  13092. to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
  13093. in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
  13094. 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
  13095. - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
  13096. the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
  13097. patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
  13098. o Minor bugfixes:
  13099. - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
  13100. descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
  13101. bug 1255.
  13102. - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
  13103. 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
  13104. - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
  13105. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
  13106. Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
  13107. Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
  13108. for sure!
  13109. o Minor bugfixes:
  13110. - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
  13111. of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
  13112. customized patches to run/build.
  13113. Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
  13114. Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
  13115. again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
  13116. authority.
  13117. o Major bugfixes (performance):
  13118. - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
  13119. which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
  13120. meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
  13121. probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
  13122. select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
  13123. automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
  13124. bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
  13125. o Major bugfixes:
  13126. - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
  13127. use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
  13128. version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
  13129. Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
  13130. libraries in a security patch.
  13131. - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
  13132. that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
  13133. a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
  13134. requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
  13135. by aakova.
  13136. o Directory authority changes:
  13137. - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
  13138. remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
  13139. service directory authority) from the list.
  13140. o Minor bugfixes:
  13141. - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
  13142. Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
  13143. o Minor features:
  13144. - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
  13145. rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
  13146. throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
  13147. in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
  13148. over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
  13149. Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
  13150. Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
  13151. causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
  13152. please upgrade.
  13153. o Major bugfixes:
  13154. - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
  13155. inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
  13156. interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
  13157. the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
  13158. Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
  13159. o Minor bugfixes:
  13160. - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
  13161. Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
  13162. local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
  13163. refuse to listen.
  13164. Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
  13165. Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
  13166. as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
  13167. also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
  13168. ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
  13169. This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
  13170. security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
  13171. o Directory authority changes:
  13172. - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
  13173. and gabelmoo.
  13174. o Major features (performance):
  13175. - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
  13176. which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
  13177. meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
  13178. probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
  13179. select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
  13180. automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
  13181. bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
  13182. - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
  13183. circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
  13184. for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
  13185. feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
  13186. this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
  13187. option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
  13188. Alexander.
  13189. - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
  13190. limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
  13191. but never per-conn write limits.
  13192. - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
  13193. rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
  13194. controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
  13195. experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
  13196. o Major features (relay selection options):
  13197. - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
  13198. "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
  13199. "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
  13200. - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
  13201. change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
  13202. circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
  13203. config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
  13204. the change.
  13205. - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
  13206. unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
  13207. they get it.
  13208. - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
  13209. StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
  13210. entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
  13211. after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
  13212. those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
  13213. all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
  13214. - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
  13215. fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
  13216. the network changes.
  13217. o Major bugfixes:
  13218. - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
  13219. directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
  13220. bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13221. o Minor features:
  13222. - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
  13223. for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
  13224. is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
  13225. - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
  13226. timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
  13227. a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
  13228. slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
  13229. - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
  13230. contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
  13231. so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
  13232. - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
  13233. generated while acting as a relay.
  13234. - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
  13235. - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
  13236. rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
  13237. throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
  13238. in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
  13239. over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
  13240. o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
  13241. - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
  13242. hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  13243. - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
  13244. DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
  13245. mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
  13246. 0.2.2.6-alpha.
  13247. o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
  13248. - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
  13249. a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
  13250. 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  13251. - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
  13252. but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
  13253. is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
  13254. on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13255. - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
  13256. descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
  13257. o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
  13258. - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
  13259. log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
  13260. 0.1.0.1-rc.
  13261. - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
  13262. use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
  13263. on 0.1.1.8-alpha.
  13264. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  13265. - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
  13266. our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
  13267. - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
  13268. were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
  13269. intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
  13270. - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
  13271. with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
  13272. internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
  13273. by bug 1055.
  13274. - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
  13275. too.
  13276. o Removed features:
  13277. - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
  13278. service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
  13279. hidden service usage.
  13280. Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
  13281. Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
  13282. authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
  13283. if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
  13284. rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
  13285. o Directory authority changes:
  13286. - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
  13287. and gabelmoo.
  13288. o Major bugfixes:
  13289. - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
  13290. directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
  13291. bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13292. Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
  13293. Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
  13294. library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
  13295. renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
  13296. upgrade if you're an exit relay.
  13297. o Major bugfixes:
  13298. - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
  13299. handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
  13300. are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
  13301. 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
  13302. - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
  13303. circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
  13304. happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
  13305. o Minor bugfixes:
  13306. - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
  13307. documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
  13308. have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  13309. Spotted and fixed by xmux.
  13310. - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
  13311. trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
  13312. Scan.
  13313. - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
  13314. trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
  13315. Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
  13316. Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
  13317. support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
  13318. future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
  13319. other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
  13320. the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
  13321. o Major features:
  13322. - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
  13323. parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
  13324. Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
  13325. multiple flavors".
  13326. - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
  13327. of router information that clients can use in place of regular
  13328. server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
  13329. to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
  13330. network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
  13331. download consensus + microdescriptors".
  13332. - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
  13333. algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
  13334. are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
  13335. hash algorithm in the future.
  13336. - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
  13337. current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
  13338. platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
  13339. this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
  13340. memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
  13341. if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
  13342. to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
  13343. - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
  13344. to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
  13345. o Major bugfixes:
  13346. - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
  13347. handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
  13348. are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
  13349. won't work unless we say we are.
  13350. o Minor bugfixes:
  13351. - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
  13352. Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
  13353. - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
  13354. to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
  13355. violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
  13356. it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
  13357. - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
  13358. documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
  13359. have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  13360. Spotted and fixed by xmux.
  13361. - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
  13362. - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
  13363. nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
  13364. with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
  13365. consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
  13366. - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
  13367. cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
  13368. warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
  13369. - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
  13370. on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
  13371. - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
  13372. introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
  13373. Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
  13374. Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
  13375. services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
  13376. fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
  13377. The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
  13378. and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
  13379. The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
  13380. Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
  13381. you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
  13382. in the Vidalia Settings window.
  13383. o Major bugfixes:
  13384. - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
  13385. by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
  13386. by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
  13387. patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
  13388. before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
  13389. oldest-bug prize.
  13390. - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
  13391. contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
  13392. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13393. - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
  13394. as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
  13395. for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
  13396. o Major features:
  13397. - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
  13398. and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
  13399. default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
  13400. o New directory authorities:
  13401. - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
  13402. authority.
  13403. - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
  13404. o Minor bugfixes:
  13405. - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
  13406. - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
  13407. 0.2.1.14-rc.
  13408. - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
  13409. we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
  13410. Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  13411. - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
  13412. systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
  13413. refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
  13414. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13415. - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  13416. we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
  13417. a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
  13418. it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
  13419. on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
  13420. - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
  13421. REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
  13422. circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
  13423. controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
  13424. overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
  13425. by SwissTorExit.
  13426. - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
  13427. excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
  13428. the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
  13429. 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13430. - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
  13431. stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
  13432. freed.
  13433. o Minor features:
  13434. - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
  13435. command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
  13436. whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
  13437. least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
  13438. getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
  13439. Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
  13440. Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  13441. o Major bugfixes:
  13442. - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
  13443. o Directory authorities:
  13444. - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
  13445. IP address.
  13446. Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
  13447. Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
  13448. introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
  13449. addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
  13450. and fixes a few smaller bugs.
  13451. o Major bugfixes:
  13452. - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
  13453. example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
  13454. accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
  13455. 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
  13456. o New directory authorities:
  13457. - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
  13458. o Minor features:
  13459. - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
  13460. include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
  13461. SSL handshake issues.
  13462. - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
  13463. during the TLS handshake.
  13464. - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
  13465. seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
  13466. - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
  13467. 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
  13468. none of which are very big.
  13469. o Minor bugfixes:
  13470. - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
  13471. on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
  13472. - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
  13473. circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  13474. - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
  13475. takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
  13476. build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  13477. - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
  13478. whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
  13479. online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
  13480. Fixes bug 1023.
  13481. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  13482. - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
  13483. can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
  13484. code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
  13485. subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
  13486. Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
  13487. Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  13488. o Major bugfixes:
  13489. - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
  13490. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
  13491. o Minor bugfixes:
  13492. - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
  13493. negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
  13494. believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
  13495. Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
  13496. Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
  13497. clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
  13498. avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
  13499. this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
  13500. connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
  13501. o Major features:
  13502. - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
  13503. over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
  13504. Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
  13505. bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
  13506. discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
  13507. circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
  13508. points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
  13509. We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
  13510. both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
  13511. to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
  13512. reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
  13513. log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
  13514. - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
  13515. part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
  13516. network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
  13517. - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
  13518. and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
  13519. default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
  13520. o Major bugfixes:
  13521. - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
  13522. contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
  13523. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13524. o Minor bugfixes:
  13525. - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
  13526. we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
  13527. Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  13528. - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
  13529. the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
  13530. - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
  13531. conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  13532. - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
  13533. systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
  13534. refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
  13535. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13536. - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
  13537. we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
  13538. a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
  13539. it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
  13540. on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
  13541. - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
  13542. REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
  13543. circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
  13544. controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
  13545. overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
  13546. by SwissTorExit.
  13547. - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
  13548. excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
  13549. the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
  13550. remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13551. - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
  13552. stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
  13553. freed.
  13554. - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
  13555. 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
  13556. and explain our warning about tsocks better.
  13557. o Minor features:
  13558. - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
  13559. command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
  13560. whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
  13561. least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
  13562. getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
  13563. - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
  13564. Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
  13565. Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
  13566. Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
  13567. makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
  13568. and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
  13569. o Security fixes:
  13570. - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
  13571. can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
  13572. on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
  13573. on 0.0.9rc5.
  13574. o New directory authorities:
  13575. - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
  13576. authority.
  13577. o Major features:
  13578. - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
  13579. hardware crypto acceleration engines.
  13580. - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
  13581. a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
  13582. configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
  13583. o Major bugfixes:
  13584. - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
  13585. by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
  13586. by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
  13587. patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
  13588. before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
  13589. oldest-bug prize.
  13590. o New options for gathering stats safely:
  13591. - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
  13592. about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
  13593. --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
  13594. 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
  13595. shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
  13596. the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
  13597. with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
  13598. - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  13599. number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
  13600. 24 hours.
  13601. - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
  13602. cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
  13603. - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
  13604. rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
  13605. hours.
  13606. - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
  13607. "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
  13608. their extra-info documents.
  13609. o Minor features:
  13610. - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
  13611. source files Tor was built with.
  13612. - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
  13613. - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
  13614. to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
  13615. help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
  13616. - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
  13617. fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
  13618. AccountingMax.
  13619. - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
  13620. want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
  13621. a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
  13622. setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
  13623. as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
  13624. set this option.
  13625. - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
  13626. the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
  13627. o Minor bugfixes:
  13628. - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
  13629. actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
  13630. on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
  13631. - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
  13632. - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
  13633. 0.2.1.14-rc.
  13634. - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
  13635. Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
  13636. o Deprecated and removed features:
  13637. - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
  13638. or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
  13639. - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
  13640. do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
  13641. service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
  13642. when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
  13643. - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
  13644. always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
  13645. controllers.
  13646. - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
  13647. them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
  13648. via application-level web tricks.
  13649. o Packaging changes:
  13650. - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
  13651. installer bundles. See
  13652. https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
  13653. for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
  13654. - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
  13655. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
  13656. configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
  13657. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
  13658. x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
  13659. - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
  13660. better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
  13661. - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
  13662. by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
  13663. occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
  13664. Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
  13665. Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
  13666. services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
  13667. o Major bugfixes:
  13668. - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
  13669. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
  13670. part of patch provided by "optimist".
  13671. o Minor features:
  13672. - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
  13673. the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
  13674. it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
  13675. and confuse fewer users.
  13676. o Minor bugfixes:
  13677. - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
  13678. their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
  13679. changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
  13680. fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
  13681. - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
  13682. so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
  13683. fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
  13684. Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
  13685. Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
  13686. adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
  13687. optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
  13688. variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
  13689. other features and bug fixes.
  13690. o Build fixes:
  13691. - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
  13692. Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
  13693. Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
  13694. candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
  13695. client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
  13696. authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
  13697. poorly.
  13698. The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
  13699. thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
  13700. should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
  13701. failure message (oops).
  13702. o Major features:
  13703. - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
  13704. the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
  13705. the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
  13706. authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
  13707. proposal 141.
  13708. o Major bugfixes:
  13709. - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
  13710. cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
  13711. consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
  13712. bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
  13713. end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
  13714. speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
  13715. consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  13716. - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
  13717. internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
  13718. ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
  13719. that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
  13720. up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
  13721. and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
  13722. flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
  13723. 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
  13724. o Minor bugfixes:
  13725. - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
  13726. our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
  13727. - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
  13728. replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
  13729. before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
  13730. pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
  13731. warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
  13732. AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
  13733. by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
  13734. - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
  13735. fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
  13736. Workaround for bug 1024.
  13737. - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
  13738. Resolves bug 1027.
  13739. o Minor features:
  13740. - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
  13741. about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
  13742. further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
  13743. Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
  13744. o Security fix:
  13745. - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
  13746. Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
  13747. - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
  13748. controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
  13749. address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
  13750. o Major bugfixes:
  13751. - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
  13752. IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
  13753. them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
  13754. never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
  13755. just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
  13756. don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
  13757. all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
  13758. - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
  13759. that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
  13760. occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
  13761. o Minor bugfixes:
  13762. - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
  13763. memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
  13764. 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
  13765. - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
  13766. was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
  13767. because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
  13768. descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
  13769. the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
  13770. Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
  13771. Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
  13772. a bunch of minor bugs.
  13773. o Security fixes:
  13774. - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
  13775. controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
  13776. address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
  13777. o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
  13778. - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
  13779. over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
  13780. of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
  13781. by Jacob.
  13782. - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
  13783. data.
  13784. o Minor features:
  13785. - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
  13786. - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
  13787. if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
  13788. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  13789. - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
  13790. Windows.
  13791. - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
  13792. when running as a server with a controller listening for log
  13793. messages.
  13794. - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
  13795. SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
  13796. and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
  13797. - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
  13798. was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
  13799. because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
  13800. descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
  13801. the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
  13802. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
  13803. - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
  13804. provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
  13805. 0.2.1.15-rc.
  13806. - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
  13807. gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
  13808. - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
  13809. an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
  13810. because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
  13811. Fix for bug 984.
  13812. Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
  13813. Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
  13814. series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
  13815. of more minor bugs.
  13816. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  13817. - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
  13818. that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
  13819. occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
  13820. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  13821. - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
  13822. Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
  13823. anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  13824. - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
  13825. freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
  13826. - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
  13827. memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
  13828. one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
  13829. - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
  13830. corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
  13831. Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  13832. - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
  13833. non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
  13834. - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
  13835. client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
  13836. - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
  13837. controller.
  13838. - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
  13839. actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
  13840. - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
  13841. and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  13842. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
  13843. - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
  13844. descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  13845. Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
  13846. Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
  13847. series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
  13848. finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
  13849. addresses to fall out of the directory.
  13850. o Major features:
  13851. - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
  13852. ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
  13853. especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
  13854. a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
  13855. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
  13856. - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
  13857. IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
  13858. them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
  13859. never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
  13860. just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
  13861. don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
  13862. all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
  13863. - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
  13864. part of a day if they changed their local config but the
  13865. authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
  13866. different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
  13867. if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
  13868. patch by Sebastian.
  13869. - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
  13870. Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
  13871. o Minor features:
  13872. - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
  13873. controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
  13874. circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
  13875. for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
  13876. - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
  13877. This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
  13878. understand.
  13879. - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
  13880. bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
  13881. directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
  13882. with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
  13883. find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
  13884. on average.
  13885. - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
  13886. o Minor bugfixes:
  13887. - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
  13888. give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
  13889. 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  13890. - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
  13891. <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
  13892. defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13893. - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13894. - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
  13895. memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
  13896. 0.2.0.33.
  13897. - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
  13898. service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13899. - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
  13900. duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
  13901. harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
  13902. lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  13903. - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
  13904. The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
  13905. other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
  13906. bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
  13907. - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
  13908. requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
  13909. bug 959.
  13910. Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
  13911. Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
  13912. cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
  13913. o Major bugfixes:
  13914. - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
  13915. exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
  13916. lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  13917. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
  13918. - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
  13919. disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
  13920. We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
  13921. help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
  13922. - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
  13923. "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
  13924. stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
  13925. be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
  13926. 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
  13927. - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
  13928. recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  13929. - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
  13930. it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
  13931. the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
  13932. - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
  13933. stream never finished making its connection, it would live
  13934. forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
  13935. seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
  13936. - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
  13937. of a circuit. Patch from lark.
  13938. - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
  13939. ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
  13940. - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
  13941. timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
  13942. been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
  13943. bug 929.
  13944. - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
  13945. 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
  13946. aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
  13947. - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
  13948. manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
  13949. - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
  13950. path. Patch from Michael Gold.
  13951. - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
  13952. of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
  13953. of 0. Suggested by lark.
  13954. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
  13955. - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
  13956. cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
  13957. - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
  13958. in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
  13959. o Minor features:
  13960. - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
  13961. is option is set.
  13962. - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
  13963. lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
  13964. can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
  13965. - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
  13966. Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
  13967. Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
  13968. upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
  13969. directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
  13970. (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
  13971. This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
  13972. have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
  13973. upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
  13974. stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
  13975. o Security fixes:
  13976. - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
  13977. circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  13978. - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
  13979. a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
  13980. - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
  13981. input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
  13982. - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
  13983. Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
  13984. o Minor bugfixes:
  13985. - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
  13986. Patch from Matthias Drochner.
  13987. - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
  13988. bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
  13989. Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
  13990. Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
  13991. should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
  13992. a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
  13993. (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
  13994. includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
  13995. o Security fixes:
  13996. - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
  13997. circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  13998. - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
  13999. a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
  14000. - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
  14001. input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  14002. o Minor bugfixes:
  14003. - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
  14004. getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
  14005. reported by Matt Edman.
  14006. - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
  14007. 0.2.1.11-alpha.
  14008. - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
  14009. service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
  14010. - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
  14011. enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
  14012. 0.0.9pre6.
  14013. - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
  14014. platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  14015. - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
  14016. headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14017. - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
  14018. bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
  14019. - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
  14020. Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
  14021. one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
  14022. the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
  14023. Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
  14024. - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
  14025. a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
  14026. probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  14027. - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
  14028. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  14029. - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
  14030. to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
  14031. request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14032. o Minor features:
  14033. - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
  14034. NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
  14035. - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
  14036. controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
  14037. o Build changes:
  14038. - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
  14039. likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
  14040. the letter of C99's alias rules.
  14041. Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
  14042. Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
  14043. useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
  14044. that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
  14045. This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
  14046. Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
  14047. about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
  14048. o Security fixes:
  14049. - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
  14050. some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
  14051. o Major bugfixes:
  14052. - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
  14053. "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
  14054. would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
  14055. the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
  14056. closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
  14057. reported by "wood".
  14058. - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
  14059. connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
  14060. combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
  14061. the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
  14062. identify a connection.
  14063. - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
  14064. descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
  14065. after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
  14066. descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
  14067. get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
  14068. 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
  14069. already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  14070. - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
  14071. to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
  14072. sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
  14073. 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  14074. - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
  14075. discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
  14076. useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
  14077. it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
  14078. are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
  14079. we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
  14080. key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
  14081. o Minor bugfixes:
  14082. - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
  14083. could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
  14084. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14085. - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
  14086. - Compile without warnings on solaris.
  14087. - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
  14088. Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
  14089. - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
  14090. certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
  14091. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  14092. - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
  14093. CID 349.
  14094. - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
  14095. automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
  14096. dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
  14097. *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
  14098. - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
  14099. the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
  14100. - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
  14101. no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
  14102. supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
  14103. - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
  14104. that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
  14105. Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
  14106. - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
  14107. seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
  14108. configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  14109. - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
  14110. user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
  14111. 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  14112. - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
  14113. the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
  14114. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
  14115. - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
  14116. and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
  14117. 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
  14118. - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
  14119. nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
  14120. 840. Patch from rovv.
  14121. - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
  14122. prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
  14123. intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
  14124. from rovv.
  14125. - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
  14126. do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
  14127. Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
  14128. - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
  14129. using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
  14130. client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
  14131. bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  14132. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  14133. - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
  14134. 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
  14135. o Minor features:
  14136. - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
  14137. differently than the case where there is an error handling the
  14138. detached set.
  14139. - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
  14140. descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
  14141. triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
  14142. - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
  14143. case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
  14144. not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
  14145. ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
  14146. of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
  14147. "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
  14148. for more info.
  14149. - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
  14150. poisoning.
  14151. - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
  14152. compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
  14153. both.
  14154. Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
  14155. Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
  14156. week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
  14157. an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
  14158. should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
  14159. have had some time to upgrade.)
  14160. o Security fixes:
  14161. - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
  14162. some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
  14163. o Major bugfixes:
  14164. - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
  14165. five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
  14166. starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
  14167. keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
  14168. on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
  14169. o Minor features:
  14170. - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
  14171. is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
  14172. 897 and others.
  14173. - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
  14174. for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
  14175. - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
  14176. the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
  14177. LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
  14178. entirely. Patch from coderman.
  14179. o Minor bugfixes:
  14180. - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
  14181. Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
  14182. - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
  14183. cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
  14184. tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
  14185. should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14186. - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
  14187. DNS requests.
  14188. Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
  14189. Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
  14190. would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
  14191. and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
  14192. about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
  14193. to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
  14194. with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
  14195. o Major bugfixes:
  14196. - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
  14197. discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
  14198. be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
  14199. practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
  14200. mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
  14201. bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14202. - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
  14203. descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
  14204. after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
  14205. descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
  14206. get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
  14207. 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
  14208. already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  14209. - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
  14210. to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
  14211. sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
  14212. 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  14213. o Minor features:
  14214. - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
  14215. of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
  14216. like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
  14217. a difference.
  14218. - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
  14219. without support for deprecated functions.
  14220. - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
  14221. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  14222. - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
  14223. weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
  14224. - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
  14225. document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  14226. - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
  14227. Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
  14228. - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
  14229. do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
  14230. over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
  14231. on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
  14232. - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
  14233. retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
  14234. - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
  14235. unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
  14236. bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
  14237. warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
  14238. - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
  14239. using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
  14240. client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
  14241. bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
  14242. - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
  14243. improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
  14244. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
  14245. - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
  14246. guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
  14247. - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
  14248. send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
  14249. limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
  14250. thanks to Karsten.
  14251. - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
  14252. for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
  14253. to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
  14254. it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
  14255. RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
  14256. this later.
  14257. - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
  14258. - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
  14259. not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
  14260. 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  14261. - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
  14262. port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
  14263. 0.2.1.9-alpha.
  14264. o Deprecated and removed features:
  14265. - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
  14266. the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
  14267. turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
  14268. maintain.
  14269. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  14270. - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
  14271. with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
  14272. with log.h on Android.
  14273. - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
  14274. static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
  14275. Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
  14276. Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
  14277. o New directory authorities:
  14278. - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
  14279. IP address.
  14280. o Security fixes:
  14281. - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
  14282. circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
  14283. connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
  14284. identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
  14285. - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
  14286. descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  14287. o Major bugfixes:
  14288. - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
  14289. configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
  14290. part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
  14291. - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
  14292. "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
  14293. would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
  14294. the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
  14295. closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
  14296. reported by "wood".
  14297. - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
  14298. automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
  14299. dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
  14300. *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
  14301. o Minor features:
  14302. - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
  14303. "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
  14304. users to diagnose.
  14305. - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
  14306. log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
  14307. the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
  14308. - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
  14309. - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
  14310. to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
  14311. authorities. Fixes bug 366.
  14312. - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
  14313. a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
  14314. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
  14315. - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
  14316. pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
  14317. - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
  14318. Implements proposal 148.
  14319. - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
  14320. messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
  14321. system to do it for us.
  14322. - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
  14323. or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
  14324. this fix will be slightly helpful.
  14325. - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
  14326. - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
  14327. a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
  14328. away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
  14329. 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
  14330. - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
  14331. Tor that new directory information has arrived.
  14332. - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
  14333. as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
  14334. bugfix on bug 891.
  14335. o Minor features (controller):
  14336. - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
  14337. been fetched and validated.
  14338. - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
  14339. descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
  14340. than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
  14341. - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
  14342. controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
  14343. configuration. Fixes bug 856.
  14344. o Minor bugfixes:
  14345. - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
  14346. controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  14347. - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
  14348. than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
  14349. canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
  14350. Spotted by rovv.
  14351. - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
  14352. seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
  14353. configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  14354. - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
  14355. user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
  14356. 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
  14357. - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
  14358. and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
  14359. 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
  14360. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  14361. - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
  14362. 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
  14363. throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
  14364. by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
  14365. - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
  14366. descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
  14367. with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
  14368. o Deprecated and removed features:
  14369. - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
  14370. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  14371. - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
  14372. has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  14373. - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
  14374. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  14375. - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
  14376. is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
  14377. belongs.
  14378. - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
  14379. only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
  14380. it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
  14381. - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
  14382. for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
  14383. - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
  14384. Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
  14385. Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
  14386. builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
  14387. fixes a variety of other issues.
  14388. o Major features:
  14389. - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
  14390. it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
  14391. disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
  14392. a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
  14393. o Security fixes:
  14394. - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
  14395. one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
  14396. all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
  14397. Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
  14398. o Major bugfixes:
  14399. - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
  14400. at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14401. - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
  14402. on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  14403. o Minor bugfixes:
  14404. - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
  14405. bug 859.
  14406. - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
  14407. certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
  14408. - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
  14409. sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
  14410. - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
  14411. on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
  14412. - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
  14413. 0.1.2.8-beta.
  14414. - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
  14415. rest, and don't automatically fail.
  14416. - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
  14417. compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  14418. - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
  14419. could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
  14420. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14421. - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
  14422. - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
  14423. Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
  14424. - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
  14425. improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
  14426. leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
  14427. - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
  14428. want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
  14429. - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
  14430. certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
  14431. on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  14432. - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
  14433. CID 349.
  14434. o Minor features:
  14435. - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
  14436. running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
  14437. anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
  14438. o Minor features (controller):
  14439. - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
  14440. bug 858.
  14441. Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
  14442. Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
  14443. packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
  14444. a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
  14445. services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
  14446. variety of other issues.
  14447. o Security fixes:
  14448. - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
  14449. supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
  14450. is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
  14451. user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
  14452. detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
  14453. in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
  14454. and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
  14455. - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
  14456. consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
  14457. exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
  14458. the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
  14459. an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
  14460. o Major bugfixes:
  14461. - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
  14462. at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14463. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  14464. - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
  14465. we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
  14466. descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
  14467. might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
  14468. failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
  14469. still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14470. - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
  14471. rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
  14472. requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
  14473. downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
  14474. rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
  14475. downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
  14476. descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
  14477. descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
  14478. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14479. o Minor bugfixes:
  14480. - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
  14481. - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
  14482. correctly. Found by Riastradh.
  14483. - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
  14484. bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
  14485. 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
  14486. - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
  14487. and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
  14488. port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
  14489. the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
  14490. on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
  14491. - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
  14492. having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
  14493. outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
  14494. we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
  14495. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
  14496. - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
  14497. list. It has been gone for many months.
  14498. - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
  14499. sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
  14500. - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
  14501. 0.1.2.8-beta.
  14502. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  14503. - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
  14504. 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
  14505. Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
  14506. Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
  14507. packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
  14508. a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
  14509. services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
  14510. relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
  14511. variety of other issues.
  14512. o Security fixes:
  14513. - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
  14514. consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
  14515. exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
  14516. the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
  14517. an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
  14518. - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
  14519. supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
  14520. is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
  14521. user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
  14522. detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
  14523. in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
  14524. and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
  14525. - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
  14526. from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
  14527. o Minor features:
  14528. - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
  14529. identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
  14530. Suggested by Lucky Green.
  14531. - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
  14532. case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
  14533. not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
  14534. ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
  14535. of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
  14536. "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
  14537. for more info.
  14538. - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
  14539. the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
  14540. o Hidden service performance improvements:
  14541. - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
  14542. new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
  14543. - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
  14544. after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
  14545. - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
  14546. than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
  14547. descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
  14548. faster after restart.
  14549. o Minor bugfixes:
  14550. - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
  14551. bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
  14552. we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
  14553. - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
  14554. no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
  14555. supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
  14556. - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
  14557. nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
  14558. 840. Patch from rovv.
  14559. - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
  14560. do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
  14561. Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
  14562. - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
  14563. that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
  14564. Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
  14565. - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
  14566. prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
  14567. intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
  14568. from rovv.
  14569. - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
  14570. addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
  14571. - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
  14572. have already been marked for close.
  14573. - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
  14574. introduction points.
  14575. - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
  14576. memory performance during directory parsing.
  14577. - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
  14578. not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
  14579. - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
  14580. because of a pending download.
  14581. Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
  14582. Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
  14583. hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
  14584. and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  14585. o Major features:
  14586. - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
  14587. that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
  14588. enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
  14589. to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
  14590. type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
  14591. raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
  14592. services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
  14593. - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
  14594. i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
  14595. the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
  14596. lookups more reliable.
  14597. - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
  14598. syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
  14599. "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
  14600. refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
  14601. you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
  14602. - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
  14603. like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  14604. o Major bugfixes:
  14605. - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
  14606. Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
  14607. relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  14608. - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
  14609. rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
  14610. requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
  14611. downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
  14612. descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
  14613. now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
  14614. its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
  14615. putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
  14616. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14617. - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
  14618. we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
  14619. descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
  14620. might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
  14621. failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
  14622. still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14623. - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
  14624. these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
  14625. in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  14626. o Minor features:
  14627. - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
  14628. - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
  14629. rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
  14630. misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
  14631. locked down these days.
  14632. - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
  14633. simultaneously running with the same datadir.
  14634. - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
  14635. port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
  14636. - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
  14637. servers.
  14638. - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
  14639. serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
  14640. - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
  14641. help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
  14642. - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
  14643. single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
  14644. single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
  14645. from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
  14646. - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
  14647. people find host:port too confusing.
  14648. - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
  14649. after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  14650. - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
  14651. o Minor bugfixes:
  14652. - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
  14653. Reported by Tas.
  14654. - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
  14655. impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
  14656. - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
  14657. correctly. Found by Riastradh.
  14658. - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
  14659. for bug 811.
  14660. - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
  14661. fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
  14662. - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
  14663. bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
  14664. 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
  14665. - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
  14666. and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
  14667. port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
  14668. the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
  14669. on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
  14670. - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
  14671. service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
  14672. on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  14673. - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
  14674. having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
  14675. outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
  14676. we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
  14677. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
  14678. - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
  14679. at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  14680. - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
  14681. "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
  14682. bug 807.
  14683. - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
  14684. reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
  14685. we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
  14686. circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
  14687. connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
  14688. circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14689. - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
  14690. and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
  14691. $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
  14692. there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
  14693. bug 820, reported by seeess.
  14694. - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
  14695. list. It has been gone for many months.
  14696. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  14697. - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
  14698. exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
  14699. actual mistakes we're making here.
  14700. - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
  14701. with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
  14702. - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
  14703. structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
  14704. Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
  14705. Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
  14706. a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
  14707. gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  14708. o Major bugfixes:
  14709. - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
  14710. with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
  14711. is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
  14712. - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
  14713. a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
  14714. sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
  14715. by rovv.
  14716. - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
  14717. one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
  14718. current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
  14719. pointed out by rovv.
  14720. o Minor bugfixes:
  14721. - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
  14722. 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14723. - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
  14724. when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  14725. - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
  14726. Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
  14727. - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
  14728. option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
  14729. option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
  14730. Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14731. - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
  14732. option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
  14733. /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
  14734. Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  14735. - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
  14736. or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
  14737. on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
  14738. on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
  14739. - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
  14740. getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
  14741. 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
  14742. Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
  14743. Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
  14744. in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
  14745. services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
  14746. balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
  14747. the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
  14748. issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  14749. o Major features:
  14750. - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
  14751. IPv6 addresses.
  14752. - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
  14753. - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
  14754. - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
  14755. hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
  14756. authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
  14757. authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
  14758. step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
  14759. authorization.
  14760. - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
  14761. documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
  14762. router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
  14763. will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
  14764. known descriptor before building circuits.
  14765. o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
  14766. - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
  14767. connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
  14768. combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
  14769. the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
  14770. identify a connection.
  14771. - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
  14772. a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
  14773. sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
  14774. by rovv.
  14775. - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
  14776. one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
  14777. current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
  14778. pointed out by rovv.
  14779. o Minor bugfixes:
  14780. - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
  14781. 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14782. - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
  14783. option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
  14784. before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
  14785. Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  14786. - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
  14787. when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  14788. - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
  14789. - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
  14790. the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
  14791. - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
  14792. option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
  14793. option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
  14794. Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  14795. o Minor features:
  14796. - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
  14797. a lot. Resolves bug 748.
  14798. - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
  14799. answer sections match.
  14800. - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
  14801. when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
  14802. Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
  14803. Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14804. o Major bugfixes:
  14805. - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
  14806. to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
  14807. their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
  14808. on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14809. - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
  14810. but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
  14811. phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14812. o Minor bugfixes:
  14813. - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
  14814. descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
  14815. obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
  14816. complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
  14817. on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
  14818. o Removed features:
  14819. - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
  14820. a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
  14821. Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
  14822. Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
  14823. infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
  14824. might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
  14825. address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
  14826. ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
  14827. o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
  14828. - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
  14829. reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
  14830. o Major features:
  14831. - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
  14832. along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
  14833. cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
  14834. certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
  14835. be sent using an "early" cell.
  14836. o Major bugfixes:
  14837. - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
  14838. or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
  14839. on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
  14840. on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
  14841. - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
  14842. with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
  14843. is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
  14844. o Minor features:
  14845. - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
  14846. to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
  14847. to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
  14848. which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
  14849. patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
  14850. - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
  14851. that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
  14852. allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
  14853. - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
  14854. ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
  14855. - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
  14856. be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
  14857. servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
  14858. - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
  14859. and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
  14860. only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
  14861. o Minor bugfixes:
  14862. - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
  14863. logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
  14864. "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
  14865. - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
  14866. warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
  14867. eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
  14868. - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
  14869. that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
  14870. don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
  14871. Bugfix on 0.0.9.3.
  14872. - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
  14873. HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
  14874. and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
  14875. 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
  14876. - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
  14877. Spotted by rovv.
  14878. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  14879. - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
  14880. is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
  14881. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
  14882. o Removed features:
  14883. - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
  14884. versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
  14885. Tor network.
  14886. Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
  14887. o Minor bugfixes:
  14888. - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
  14889. warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
  14890. eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
  14891. Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
  14892. Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
  14893. hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
  14894. o Major bugfixes:
  14895. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
  14896. you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
  14897. on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
  14898. found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
  14899. so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14900. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
  14901. connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
  14902. pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
  14903. digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14904. - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
  14905. and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
  14906. were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
  14907. instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  14908. - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
  14909. and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
  14910. circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
  14911. so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
  14912. more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
  14913. scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
  14914. - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
  14915. their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
  14916. ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
  14917. address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
  14918. o Minor bugfixes:
  14919. - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
  14920. some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
  14921. Fixes bug 707.
  14922. - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
  14923. Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
  14924. - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
  14925. O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
  14926. bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
  14927. - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
  14928. require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
  14929. from coderman.
  14930. - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
  14931. stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
  14932. session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
  14933. ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
  14934. found by Geoff Goodell.
  14935. Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
  14936. Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
  14937. make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
  14938. big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
  14939. offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
  14940. API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
  14941. o Major features:
  14942. - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
  14943. previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
  14944. bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
  14945. o Major bugfixes:
  14946. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
  14947. you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
  14948. on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
  14949. found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
  14950. so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14951. - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
  14952. and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
  14953. all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
  14954. same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  14955. - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
  14956. originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
  14957. included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
  14958. reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
  14959. from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
  14960. o Minor features:
  14961. - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
  14962. - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
  14963. This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
  14964. proposal 138.
  14965. - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
  14966. fingerprints with or without space.
  14967. - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
  14968. controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
  14969. partway through and wants to catch up.
  14970. - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
  14971. state to start out in.
  14972. o Minor bugfixes:
  14973. - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
  14974. would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
  14975. consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
  14976. - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
  14977. #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
  14978. 0.2.0.x.
  14979. o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
  14980. - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
  14981. problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
  14982. some of the connection attempts fail.
  14983. - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
  14984. bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
  14985. problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
  14986. - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
  14987. as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
  14988. for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
  14989. ten bridges.
  14990. - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
  14991. pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
  14992. events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
  14993. Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
  14994. Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
  14995. were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
  14996. handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
  14997. the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
  14998. problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
  14999. and adds a variety of smaller features.
  15000. o Major features:
  15001. - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
  15002. of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
  15003. closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
  15004. we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
  15005. know about.
  15006. - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
  15007. so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
  15008. information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
  15009. if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
  15010. proposal 137.
  15011. - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
  15012. cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
  15013. stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
  15014. called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
  15015. bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
  15016. at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
  15017. we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
  15018. o Major bugfixes:
  15019. - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
  15020. older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
  15021. new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
  15022. faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
  15023. 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
  15024. o Memory fixes and improvements:
  15025. - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
  15026. to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
  15027. - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
  15028. stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
  15029. this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
  15030. on a typical directory cache.
  15031. - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
  15032. descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
  15033. router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
  15034. and may reduce fragmentation.
  15035. - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
  15036. most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
  15037. - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
  15038. buffers.
  15039. - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
  15040. patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
  15041. patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
  15042. before too long.
  15043. - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
  15044. compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
  15045. or both.
  15046. o Minor bugfixes:
  15047. - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
  15048. run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
  15049. it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
  15050. done that for a long time.
  15051. - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
  15052. published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
  15053. service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
  15054. that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
  15055. o Minor features:
  15056. - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
  15057. domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
  15058. or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
  15059. higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
  15060. - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
  15061. and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
  15062. GCC 4.3.
  15063. - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
  15064. disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
  15065. output to messages of warning and error severity.
  15066. - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
  15067. allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
  15068. The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
  15069. it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
  15070. new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
  15071. 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
  15072. - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
  15073. DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
  15074. directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
  15075. total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
  15076. directory requests we should expect to see.
  15077. - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
  15078. behavior.
  15079. - Lots of new unit tests.
  15080. - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
  15081. two parallel lists in lockstep.
  15082. Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
  15083. Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
  15084. performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
  15085. o Anonymity fixes:
  15086. - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
  15087. put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
  15088. clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
  15089. anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
  15090. the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
  15091. set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
  15092. or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
  15093. o Major bugfixes:
  15094. - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
  15095. were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
  15096. the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
  15097. 0.2.0.14-alpha.
  15098. o Minor features:
  15099. - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
  15100. - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
  15101. many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
  15102. o Minor bugfixes:
  15103. - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
  15104. to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
  15105. the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
  15106. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15107. - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
  15108. for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
  15109. 0.2.0.27-rc.
  15110. - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
  15111. include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
  15112. - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
  15113. Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
  15114. bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15115. - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
  15116. logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
  15117. on 0.1.2.x.
  15118. - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
  15119. tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
  15120. 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
  15121. - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
  15122. - Fix compile on Windows.
  15123. Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
  15124. Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
  15125. release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
  15126. GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
  15127. given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
  15128. summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
  15129. 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
  15130. o Major features:
  15131. - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
  15132. relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
  15133. o Minor features:
  15134. - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
  15135. Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
  15136. - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
  15137. - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
  15138. on mingw.
  15139. - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
  15140. - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
  15141. operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
  15142. o Minor bugfixes:
  15143. - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
  15144. circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
  15145. to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
  15146. - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
  15147. from time to time.
  15148. Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
  15149. Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
  15150. in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
  15151. should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
  15152. o Major security fixes:
  15153. - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
  15154. moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
  15155. a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
  15156. considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
  15157. with an affected version of OpenSSL.
  15158. o Major bugfixes:
  15159. - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
  15160. lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15161. o Minor features:
  15162. - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
  15163. authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
  15164. Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
  15165. Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
  15166. o Major bugfixes:
  15167. - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
  15168. Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
  15169. startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
  15170. o Minor bugfixes:
  15171. - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
  15172. exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15173. Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
  15174. Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
  15175. v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
  15176. DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
  15177. rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
  15178. o New directory authorities:
  15179. - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
  15180. it has been down for months.
  15181. - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
  15182. authority.
  15183. o Major bugfixes:
  15184. - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
  15185. relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
  15186. o Minor features (security):
  15187. - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
  15188. a private address space. Patch from lodger.
  15189. - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
  15190. from lodger.
  15191. o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
  15192. - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
  15193. directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
  15194. service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
  15195. - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
  15196. running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
  15197. - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
  15198. logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
  15199. bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  15200. o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
  15201. - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
  15202. at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  15203. - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
  15204. leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
  15205. - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
  15206. shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15207. - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
  15208. platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
  15209. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  15210. - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
  15211. generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
  15212. based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
  15213. - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
  15214. using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
  15215. pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
  15216. - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
  15217. - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
  15218. preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
  15219. Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15220. - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
  15221. untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
  15222. - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
  15223. by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
  15224. spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
  15225. Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
  15226. - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
  15227. failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
  15228. Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
  15229. Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
  15230. makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
  15231. is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
  15232. o Major bugfixes:
  15233. - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
  15234. that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
  15235. fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
  15236. retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
  15237. Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
  15238. Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
  15239. enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
  15240. some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
  15241. other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
  15242. o Major features:
  15243. - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
  15244. so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
  15245. plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
  15246. certain censored countries by default again.
  15247. o Major bugfixes:
  15248. - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
  15249. TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  15250. - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
  15251. the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
  15252. diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  15253. - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
  15254. became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
  15255. on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
  15256. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
  15257. - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
  15258. "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
  15259. - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
  15260. look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
  15261. at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
  15262. Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
  15263. order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
  15264. - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
  15265. a directory. Fix from lodger.
  15266. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  15267. - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
  15268. - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
  15269. left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
  15270. silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
  15271. RelayBandwidth* values.
  15272. - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
  15273. - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
  15274. CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
  15275. - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
  15276. - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
  15277. get_interface_address6().
  15278. - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
  15279. HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
  15280. - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
  15281. 16k pages on ia64.
  15282. - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
  15283. - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
  15284. .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
  15285. for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  15286. - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
  15287. all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
  15288. bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
  15289. - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
  15290. actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
  15291. Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  15292. o Minor features:
  15293. - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
  15294. - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
  15295. make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
  15296. Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
  15297. Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
  15298. makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
  15299. and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
  15300. 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
  15301. o Major bugfixes:
  15302. - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
  15303. when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
  15304. bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
  15305. - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
  15306. This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
  15307. symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
  15308. - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
  15309. network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
  15310. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
  15311. o Minor bugfixes:
  15312. - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
  15313. OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
  15314. from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
  15315. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  15316. Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
  15317. Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
  15318. makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
  15319. hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
  15320. know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
  15321. allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
  15322. sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
  15323. o Major features:
  15324. - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
  15325. Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
  15326. includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
  15327. proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
  15328. to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
  15329. man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
  15330. feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
  15331. in the future.
  15332. - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
  15333. rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
  15334. bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
  15335. - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
  15336. stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
  15337. o Major bugfixes:
  15338. - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
  15339. Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
  15340. and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
  15341. - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
  15342. would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
  15343. 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
  15344. by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15345. - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
  15346. authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
  15347. is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
  15348. them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
  15349. - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
  15350. of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
  15351. the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
  15352. made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
  15353. connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15354. - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
  15355. are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15356. - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15357. - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
  15358. to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
  15359. saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
  15360. pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
  15361. each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
  15362. automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
  15363. only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
  15364. o Minor features (performance):
  15365. - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
  15366. RAM overhead used.
  15367. - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
  15368. replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
  15369. with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
  15370. --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
  15371. - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
  15372. against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
  15373. non-system include paths.
  15374. - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
  15375. used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
  15376. Sebastian Hahn.
  15377. o Minor features (other):
  15378. - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
  15379. errors.
  15380. - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
  15381. warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
  15382. - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
  15383. scriptability.
  15384. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
  15385. - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
  15386. cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
  15387. - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
  15388. Dan Kaminsky.
  15389. - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
  15390. version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
  15391. directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
  15392. - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
  15393. Should fix bug 537.
  15394. - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
  15395. errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
  15396. unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15397. - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
  15398. tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  15399. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  15400. - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
  15401. it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
  15402. a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
  15403. - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
  15404. - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
  15405. address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
  15406. network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
  15407. - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
  15408. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
  15409. - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
  15410. cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
  15411. - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
  15412. example, when answering a directory request), reset the
  15413. time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
  15414. on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15415. - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
  15416. so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
  15417. - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
  15418. work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
  15419. - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
  15420. as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
  15421. Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
  15422. the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
  15423. - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
  15424. correctly.
  15425. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  15426. - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
  15427. and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
  15428. more easily.
  15429. Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
  15430. Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
  15431. handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
  15432. guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
  15433. for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
  15434. o Major features:
  15435. - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
  15436. Tor's x509 certificates.
  15437. o Major bugfixes:
  15438. - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
  15439. a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
  15440. reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15441. - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
  15442. mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
  15443. IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15444. o Minor features (security):
  15445. - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
  15446. as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
  15447. o Minor features (directory authority):
  15448. - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
  15449. AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
  15450. - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
  15451. bandwidthburst values.
  15452. o Minor features (controller):
  15453. - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
  15454. processes from running us out of memory.
  15455. o Minor features (misc):
  15456. - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
  15457. hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
  15458. - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
  15459. of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
  15460. o Deprecated features (controller):
  15461. - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
  15462. GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
  15463. treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
  15464. o Minor bugfixes:
  15465. - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
  15466. being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
  15467. on 0.1.2.x.
  15468. - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
  15469. listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
  15470. recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15471. - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
  15472. the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
  15473. a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15474. - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
  15475. library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
  15476. on 0.2.0.x.
  15477. - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
  15478. signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15479. - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
  15480. Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15481. - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
  15482. private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
  15483. - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
  15484. with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
  15485. on 0.1.2.x.
  15486. - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
  15487. port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
  15488. connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
  15489. - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
  15490. seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15491. - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
  15492. script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15493. - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
  15494. cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15495. - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
  15496. introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
  15497. Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15498. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  15499. - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
  15500. type-safety.
  15501. - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
  15502. from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
  15503. assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
  15504. send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
  15505. - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
  15506. needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
  15507. Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
  15508. Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
  15509. fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
  15510. that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
  15511. vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
  15512. o New directory authorities:
  15513. - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
  15514. authority.
  15515. o Major bugfixes:
  15516. - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
  15517. handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
  15518. - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
  15519. code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
  15520. renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
  15521. - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
  15522. responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
  15523. asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
  15524. fixes bug 593.
  15525. o Major features:
  15526. - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
  15527. relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
  15528. decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
  15529. - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
  15530. estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
  15531. handle more, do another bandwidth test.
  15532. - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
  15533. Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
  15534. vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
  15535. 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
  15536. o Minor bugfixes:
  15537. - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
  15538. listeners. Reported by mwenge.
  15539. - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
  15540. we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
  15541. by Kyle Williams.
  15542. o Minor features:
  15543. - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
  15544. the request isn't encrypted.
  15545. - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
  15546. - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
  15547. robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
  15548. retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
  15549. already have a usable v0 rend desc.
  15550. Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
  15551. Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
  15552. o Compile fixes:
  15553. - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
  15554. Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
  15555. Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
  15556. Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
  15557. o New directory authorities:
  15558. - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
  15559. authority.
  15560. o Major performance improvements:
  15561. - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
  15562. used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
  15563. of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
  15564. also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
  15565. memory fragmentation.
  15566. o Minor features:
  15567. - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
  15568. helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
  15569. file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
  15570. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
  15571. responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
  15572. there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
  15573. bodies when they receive them.
  15574. - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
  15575. to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
  15576. on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
  15577. o Minor performance improvements:
  15578. - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
  15579. of them were actually distinct.
  15580. - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
  15581. interested in a given message.
  15582. o Minor bugfixes:
  15583. - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
  15584. download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
  15585. on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
  15586. - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
  15587. use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
  15588. list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
  15589. bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
  15590. - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
  15591. and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
  15592. anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
  15593. - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
  15594. 0.2.0.15-alpha.
  15595. - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
  15596. to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
  15597. - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
  15598. estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
  15599. this country" and "1 person from this country".
  15600. - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
  15601. - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
  15602. crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
  15603. - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
  15604. directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
  15605. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
  15606. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
  15607. router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
  15608. - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
  15609. on 0.2.0.
  15610. - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
  15611. but client versions are not.
  15612. - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
  15613. port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
  15614. happened.
  15615. - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
  15616. compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
  15617. left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
  15618. - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
  15619. - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
  15620. error conditions.
  15621. - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
  15622. control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
  15623. network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
  15624. 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  15625. o Minor features (controller):
  15626. - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
  15627. - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
  15628. that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
  15629. - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
  15630. o Minor features (directory authorities):
  15631. - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
  15632. servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
  15633. running a test network on a single host.
  15634. - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
  15635. - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
  15636. o Minor features (bridges):
  15637. - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
  15638. unencrypted connections.
  15639. o Minor features (other):
  15640. - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
  15641. Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
  15642. ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
  15643. this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
  15644. Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
  15645. Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
  15646. exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
  15647. exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  15648. o Security fixes:
  15649. - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
  15650. relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
  15651. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
  15652. many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
  15653. on network address.
  15654. o Major bugfixes:
  15655. - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
  15656. buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
  15657. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
  15658. on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
  15659. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
  15660. service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
  15661. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
  15662. requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
  15663. crashing or mis-answering these requests.
  15664. - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
  15665. not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
  15666. purpose. Fixes bug 539.
  15667. o Minor bugfixes:
  15668. - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
  15669. rebuild our server descriptor.
  15670. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
  15671. networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
  15672. unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
  15673. - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
  15674. in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
  15675. nonstandard integer types.
  15676. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
  15677. --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
  15678. - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
  15679. directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
  15680. that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
  15681. by lodger.
  15682. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
  15683. responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
  15684. that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
  15685. when they receive them.
  15686. - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
  15687. This includes some 64-bit systems.
  15688. - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
  15689. the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
  15690. from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
  15691. - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
  15692. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
  15693. router_get_by_hexdigest().
  15694. - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
  15695. port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
  15696. happened.
  15697. Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
  15698. Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
  15699. features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  15700. o Major bugfixes:
  15701. - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
  15702. for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
  15703. was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
  15704. would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
  15705. when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
  15706. - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
  15707. estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
  15708. compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15709. o Minor bugfixes:
  15710. - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
  15711. - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
  15712. previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
  15713. ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
  15714. on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  15715. - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
  15716. self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
  15717. o Minor features:
  15718. - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
  15719. To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
  15720. Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
  15721. o Major bugfixes:
  15722. - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
  15723. without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
  15724. by Zax.
  15725. - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
  15726. unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
  15727. fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
  15728. aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15729. - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
  15730. time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
  15731. on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
  15732. Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  15733. - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
  15734. currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
  15735. 0.2.0.13-alpha.
  15736. o Major features:
  15737. - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
  15738. snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
  15739. anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
  15740. o Minor bugfixes:
  15741. - Make the unit tests build again.
  15742. - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
  15743. - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
  15744. have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
  15745. - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
  15746. be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
  15747. bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15748. - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
  15749. identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
  15750. the next one as a duplicate.
  15751. o Minor features:
  15752. - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
  15753. PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
  15754. - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
  15755. RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
  15756. Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
  15757. Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
  15758. Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
  15759. upcoming features.
  15760. o New directory authorities:
  15761. - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
  15762. authority.
  15763. o Major bugfixes:
  15764. - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
  15765. enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
  15766. two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
  15767. causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
  15768. running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
  15769. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
  15770. service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
  15771. on 0.1.2.x.
  15772. - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
  15773. after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
  15774. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  15775. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
  15776. requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
  15777. crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
  15778. - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
  15779. directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
  15780. authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
  15781. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15782. - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
  15783. the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
  15784. descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  15785. - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
  15786. were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
  15787. whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15788. o Major features:
  15789. - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
  15790. intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
  15791. stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
  15792. so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
  15793. - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
  15794. AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
  15795. user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
  15796. rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
  15797. - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
  15798. of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
  15799. to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
  15800. - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
  15801. are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
  15802. extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
  15803. where Tor is blocked.
  15804. - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
  15805. bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
  15806. controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
  15807. to a file periodically.
  15808. - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
  15809. on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
  15810. You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
  15811. config option.
  15812. o Minor bugfixes:
  15813. - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
  15814. consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
  15815. IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
  15816. also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
  15817. in the relevant networkstatus document.
  15818. - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
  15819. PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
  15820. bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  15821. - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
  15822. that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
  15823. to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
  15824. crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
  15825. by Karsten Loesing.
  15826. - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
  15827. - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
  15828. huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
  15829. clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
  15830. - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
  15831. via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15832. - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
  15833. running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
  15834. it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
  15835. "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15836. - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
  15837. using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
  15838. down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
  15839. to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15840. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
  15841. networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
  15842. routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
  15843. - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
  15844. in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
  15845. nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15846. - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15847. - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
  15848. bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15849. - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
  15850. create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
  15851. used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  15852. - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
  15853. documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15854. o Minor features:
  15855. - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
  15856. consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
  15857. - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
  15858. less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
  15859. - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
  15860. be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
  15861. you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
  15862. even if your DirPort isn't on.
  15863. - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
  15864. ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
  15865. something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
  15866. addresses.
  15867. - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
  15868. multiple controller passwords.
  15869. - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
  15870. router based on the router's purpose.
  15871. - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
  15872. authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
  15873. networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
  15874. the approved-routers file.
  15875. Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
  15876. This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
  15877. well as a few minor bugs.
  15878. o Compile fixes:
  15879. - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
  15880. - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
  15881. package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
  15882. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
  15883. - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
  15884. rebuild our server descriptor.
  15885. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  15886. - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
  15887. operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
  15888. - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
  15889. newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
  15890. - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
  15891. IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
  15892. to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
  15893. given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
  15894. never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
  15895. in the consensus.
  15896. - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
  15897. the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
  15898. a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
  15899. fall back to asking the bridge authority.
  15900. - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
  15901. chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
  15902. then be flexible about families.
  15903. o Minor features:
  15904. - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
  15905. accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
  15906. negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
  15907. proposal 110.
  15908. Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
  15909. This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
  15910. the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
  15911. policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
  15912. fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
  15913. o Security fixes:
  15914. - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
  15915. relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
  15916. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
  15917. many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
  15918. on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  15919. o Major bugfixes:
  15920. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
  15921. on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
  15922. on 0.1.2.x.
  15923. - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
  15924. because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
  15925. where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
  15926. old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
  15927. consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
  15928. Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
  15929. we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  15930. o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
  15931. - We were including instructions about what to do with the
  15932. src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
  15933. including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
  15934. o Minor features:
  15935. - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
  15936. PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
  15937. o Minor bugfixes:
  15938. - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
  15939. just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
  15940. to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  15941. Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
  15942. This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
  15943. run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
  15944. descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
  15945. in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
  15946. fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
  15947. addresses many more minor issues.
  15948. o New directory authorities:
  15949. - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
  15950. o Major features:
  15951. - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
  15952. "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
  15953. connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
  15954. connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
  15955. fetching.
  15956. - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
  15957. implement new hidden service descriptor format.
  15958. - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
  15959. accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
  15960. and are reaching it.
  15961. - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
  15962. to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
  15963. how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
  15964. nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
  15965. - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
  15966. it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
  15967. o Major bugfixes:
  15968. - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
  15969. maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
  15970. by Fabian Keil.
  15971. - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
  15972. 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
  15973. no longer work for clients.
  15974. - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
  15975. buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
  15976. o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
  15977. - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
  15978. mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
  15979. descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
  15980. would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
  15981. enough directory information to build a circuit.
  15982. - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
  15983. that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
  15984. considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
  15985. - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
  15986. consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
  15987. the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
  15988. right after.
  15989. - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
  15990. Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
  15991. requests for all of them.
  15992. - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
  15993. bug 546.
  15994. - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
  15995. for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
  15996. started authority would vote that everyone was down.
  15997. o New requirements:
  15998. - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
  15999. it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
  16000. 2004.
  16001. o Minor features:
  16002. - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
  16003. MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
  16004. rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
  16005. they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
  16006. - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
  16007. networkstatuses that we already have.
  16008. - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
  16009. to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
  16010. we start knowing some directory caches.
  16011. - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
  16012. - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
  16013. about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
  16014. - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
  16015. certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
  16016. - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
  16017. Good in combination with --hash-password.
  16018. - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
  16019. an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
  16020. fix for bug 535.
  16021. - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
  16022. - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
  16023. track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
  16024. o Minor features (bridges):
  16025. - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
  16026. they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
  16027. back to trying the bridge directly.
  16028. - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
  16029. the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
  16030. o Minor features (controller):
  16031. - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
  16032. as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
  16033. report the value as a "minimum skew."
  16034. o Utilities:
  16035. - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
  16036. the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
  16037. Perry.
  16038. o Minor bugfixes:
  16039. - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
  16040. on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
  16041. - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
  16042. set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
  16043. reported by tup and ioerror.
  16044. - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
  16045. - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
  16046. o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
  16047. - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
  16048. on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  16049. - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
  16050. on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
  16051. - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
  16052. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16053. - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
  16054. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16055. - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
  16056. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16057. - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
  16058. a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16059. - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
  16060. 0.2.0.9-alpha.
  16061. - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
  16062. Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
  16063. using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16064. - Minor bugfixes (portability):
  16065. - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
  16066. long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
  16067. OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
  16068. particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
  16069. Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
  16070. Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
  16071. hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
  16072. bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
  16073. lists for a few hours each day.
  16074. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  16075. - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
  16076. happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
  16077. connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
  16078. "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
  16079. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  16080. - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
  16081. rend_process_relay_cell().
  16082. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  16083. - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
  16084. hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
  16085. they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
  16086. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
  16087. connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
  16088. digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
  16089. changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
  16090. o Major bugfixes (other):
  16091. - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
  16092. HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
  16093. dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
  16094. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
  16095. as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
  16096. circuit cannibalization).
  16097. - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
  16098. the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
  16099. Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
  16100. that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
  16101. clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
  16102. consensus. Fixes bug 529.
  16103. o Minor bugfixes:
  16104. - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
  16105. --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
  16106. bug 499.
  16107. - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
  16108. router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
  16109. absent. Resolves bug 467.
  16110. - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
  16111. a way to trigger this remotely.)
  16112. - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
  16113. OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
  16114. were reporting the dir port.)
  16115. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
  16116. command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
  16117. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
  16118. the future. Fixes bug 434.
  16119. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
  16120. in the future.
  16121. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
  16122. onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
  16123. the onion key from getting rotated.
  16124. - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
  16125. this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
  16126. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
  16127. cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
  16128. is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
  16129. - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
  16130. option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  16131. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
  16132. --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
  16133. Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
  16134. This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
  16135. system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
  16136. have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
  16137. bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
  16138. from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
  16139. o Major features (directory system):
  16140. - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
  16141. of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
  16142. opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
  16143. download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
  16144. - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
  16145. a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
  16146. "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
  16147. nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
  16148. disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
  16149. - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
  16150. to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
  16151. Partially implements proposal 122.
  16152. - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
  16153. compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
  16154. o Major bugfixes:
  16155. - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
  16156. when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
  16157. it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
  16158. authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
  16159. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16160. - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
  16161. the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
  16162. Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
  16163. that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
  16164. clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
  16165. consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16166. - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
  16167. extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
  16168. matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  16169. o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
  16170. - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
  16171. the signing key.
  16172. - Allow certificates to include an address.
  16173. - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
  16174. and download operations.
  16175. - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
  16176. we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
  16177. - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
  16178. certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
  16179. consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
  16180. and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
  16181. failure.
  16182. - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
  16183. little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
  16184. more reliable.)
  16185. o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
  16186. - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
  16187. than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
  16188. when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
  16189. routers anyway.
  16190. - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
  16191. in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
  16192. and don't expire the descriptor until then.
  16193. o Minor features (performance):
  16194. - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
  16195. speed startup, especially on directory caches.
  16196. - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
  16197. already have enough directory information to build circuits.
  16198. - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
  16199. the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
  16200. implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
  16201. OpenSSL.
  16202. o Minor features (compilation):
  16203. - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
  16204. build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
  16205. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
  16206. - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
  16207. after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
  16208. stick around indefinitely.
  16209. - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
  16210. an error.
  16211. - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
  16212. v3 directory authority.
  16213. - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
  16214. as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
  16215. the listing.
  16216. - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
  16217. its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
  16218. "moria on moria:9031."
  16219. - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
  16220. detached signatures for a divergent vote.
  16221. - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
  16222. - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
  16223. minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
  16224. on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
  16225. matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
  16226. start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
  16227. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
  16228. - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
  16229. - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
  16230. after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
  16231. - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
  16232. should exist before trying to replace the current one.
  16233. - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
  16234. downloads than for other types.
  16235. o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
  16236. - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
  16237. 0.2.0.8-alpha.
  16238. - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
  16239. it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
  16240. supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16241. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  16242. - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
  16243. option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16244. - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
  16245. signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
  16246. 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
  16247. the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
  16248. isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
  16249. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  16250. - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
  16251. config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
  16252. - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
  16253. it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16254. - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
  16255. fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
  16256. info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  16257. - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
  16258. ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
  16259. yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
  16260. on 0.1.2.x.
  16261. - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
  16262. wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
  16263. on 0.1.2.x.
  16264. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  16265. - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
  16266. bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
  16267. 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
  16268. if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
  16269. downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
  16270. - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
  16271. - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
  16272. - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
  16273. so that they all take the same named flags.
  16274. o Utilities
  16275. - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
  16276. Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
  16277. adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
  16278. Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
  16279. This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
  16280. us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
  16281. descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
  16282. starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
  16283. and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
  16284. o Major features (router descriptor cache):
  16285. - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
  16286. cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
  16287. if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
  16288. annotations along with descriptors.
  16289. - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
  16290. source, and its purpose.
  16291. - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
  16292. obsolete.
  16293. - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
  16294. the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
  16295. - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
  16296. we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
  16297. to blocked users.
  16298. o Major features (directory authorities):
  16299. - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
  16300. to fetch them.
  16301. - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
  16302. weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
  16303. whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
  16304. whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
  16305. "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
  16306. stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
  16307. o Major features (v3 directory system):
  16308. - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
  16309. and download the descriptors listed in them.
  16310. - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
  16311. certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
  16312. - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
  16313. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  16314. - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
  16315. happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
  16316. connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
  16317. 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  16318. o Major bugfixes (performance):
  16319. - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
  16320. routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
  16321. string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
  16322. we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
  16323. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1.
  16324. - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
  16325. write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
  16326. newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
  16327. make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
  16328. and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
  16329. eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  16330. o Minor features (v3 authority system):
  16331. - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
  16332. current consensus.
  16333. - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
  16334. certificate is requested.
  16335. - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
  16336. certificate requests.
  16337. o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
  16338. - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
  16339. two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
  16340. of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
  16341. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16342. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  16343. - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
  16344. OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
  16345. were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16346. o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
  16347. - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
  16348. 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16349. - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
  16350. set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
  16351. have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16352. - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
  16353. - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
  16354. schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
  16355. - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
  16356. downloads more sensible.
  16357. - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
  16358. another when serving certificates.
  16359. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  16360. - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
  16361. instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
  16362. advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
  16363. voodoo.
  16364. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
  16365. file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16366. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
  16367. 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16368. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
  16369. command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  16370. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  16371. - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
  16372. this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
  16373. - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
  16374. Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
  16375. o Minor bugfixes (usability):
  16376. - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
  16377. WARN-severity events.
  16378. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
  16379. cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
  16380. fishy. Resolves bug 463.
  16381. o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
  16382. - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
  16383. relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
  16384. bug 516.
  16385. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
  16386. as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
  16387. circuit cannibalization).
  16388. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  16389. - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
  16390. - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
  16391. new module, networkstatus.c.
  16392. - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
  16393. routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
  16394. authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
  16395. computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
  16396. modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
  16397. stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
  16398. clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
  16399. thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
  16400. - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
  16401. uniform.
  16402. - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
  16403. dirserver_mode().
  16404. - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
  16405. The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  16406. Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
  16407. This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
  16408. authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
  16409. in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
  16410. o New directory authorities:
  16411. - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
  16412. doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
  16413. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  16414. - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
  16415. rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16416. o Major bugfixes (bridges):
  16417. - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
  16418. attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
  16419. to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
  16420. and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
  16421. - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
  16422. users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
  16423. fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
  16424. default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
  16425. are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
  16426. connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16427. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  16428. - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
  16429. hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
  16430. they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
  16431. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
  16432. connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
  16433. digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
  16434. are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
  16435. connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
  16436. o Minor features (security):
  16437. - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
  16438. address maps to an internal address space.
  16439. - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
  16440. CookieAuthentication at the same time.
  16441. o Minor features (guard nodes):
  16442. - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
  16443. we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
  16444. if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
  16445. back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
  16446. o Minor features (speed):
  16447. - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
  16448. counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
  16449. network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
  16450. on big-endian hosts.)
  16451. o Minor features (controller):
  16452. - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
  16453. hard time generating real Internet newlines.
  16454. - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
  16455. "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
  16456. Robert Hogan.
  16457. o Removed features:
  16458. - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
  16459. descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
  16460. documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
  16461. (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
  16462. implementation of proposal 104.
  16463. - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
  16464. and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
  16465. and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
  16466. - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
  16467. them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
  16468. patch from Karsten Loesing.
  16469. - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
  16470. "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
  16471. o Minor bugfixes:
  16472. - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
  16473. router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
  16474. bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16475. - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
  16476. in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16477. - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
  16478. Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  16479. - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
  16480. --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
  16481. bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16482. - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
  16483. BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
  16484. were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
  16485. RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16486. - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
  16487. that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
  16488. arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
  16489. code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16490. - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
  16491. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
  16492. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  16493. - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
  16494. contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
  16495. meet stdio.
  16496. - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
  16497. - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
  16498. - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
  16499. - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
  16500. Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
  16501. Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
  16502. X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
  16503. ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
  16504. security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
  16505. should upgrade.
  16506. In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
  16507. path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
  16508. have upgraded.
  16509. o Major bugfixes (security):
  16510. - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
  16511. deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
  16512. become more of a headache than it's worth.
  16513. o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
  16514. - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
  16515. proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
  16516. from Mike Perry.
  16517. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
  16518. will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
  16519. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
  16520. guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
  16521. three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
  16522. by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
  16523. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
  16524. - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
  16525. they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
  16526. some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
  16527. circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
  16528. o Minor features (controller):
  16529. - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
  16530. is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
  16531. a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
  16532. protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
  16533. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  16534. - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
  16535. greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
  16536. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
  16537. the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
  16538. its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
  16539. two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
  16540. powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
  16541. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  16542. - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
  16543. use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
  16544. Based on patch from Mike Perry.
  16545. - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
  16546. weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
  16547. would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
  16548. if we ran off the end of the list.
  16549. - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
  16550. cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
  16551. where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
  16552. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
  16553. every time we change any piece of our config.
  16554. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
  16555. encourage people using them to stop.
  16556. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
  16557. from tup.
  16558. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
  16559. servers to choose a circuit.
  16560. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
  16561. unparseable piece of it.
  16562. Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
  16563. This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
  16564. Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
  16565. the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
  16566. security risks.
  16567. In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
  16568. with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
  16569. people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
  16570. mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
  16571. rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
  16572. o New directory authorities:
  16573. - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
  16574. o Major features:
  16575. - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
  16576. mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
  16577. use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
  16578. to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
  16579. o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
  16580. - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
  16581. proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
  16582. from Mike Perry.
  16583. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
  16584. will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
  16585. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
  16586. guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
  16587. three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
  16588. by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
  16589. o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
  16590. - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
  16591. found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  16592. o Minor features:
  16593. - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
  16594. GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
  16595. - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
  16596. of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
  16597. from localhost.
  16598. o Minor bugfixes:
  16599. - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
  16600. routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
  16601. - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
  16602. address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
  16603. on 0.2.0.x)
  16604. - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
  16605. a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
  16606. address.
  16607. - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
  16608. in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
  16609. new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
  16610. - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
  16611. conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
  16612. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
  16613. servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16614. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
  16615. unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  16616. - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
  16617. Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
  16618. This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
  16619. fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
  16620. extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
  16621. voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
  16622. authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
  16623. o Removed features:
  16624. - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
  16625. authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
  16626. no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
  16627. working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
  16628. versions anyway.
  16629. o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
  16630. - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
  16631. - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
  16632. not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
  16633. - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
  16634. Zhou.
  16635. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
  16636. - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
  16637. they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
  16638. some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
  16639. circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
  16640. reported by lodger.
  16641. o Minor features (directory servers):
  16642. - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
  16643. none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
  16644. o Minor features (directory voting):
  16645. - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
  16646. on startup.
  16647. o Minor features (security):
  16648. - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
  16649. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
  16650. encourage people using them to stop.
  16651. o Minor features (controller):
  16652. - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
  16653. is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
  16654. a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
  16655. protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
  16656. - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
  16657. cookie authentication file, and config option
  16658. CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
  16659. o Minor features (unit testing):
  16660. - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
  16661. invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
  16662. to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
  16663. logging for the unit tests.
  16664. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
  16665. - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
  16666. cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
  16667. where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
  16668. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
  16669. every time we change any piece of our config.
  16670. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
  16671. the future. Fixes bug 434.
  16672. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
  16673. in the future.
  16674. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
  16675. onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
  16676. the onion key from getting rotated.
  16677. - Clean up torrc sample config file.
  16678. - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
  16679. non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
  16680. programs.
  16681. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
  16682. - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
  16683. the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
  16684. 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  16685. - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
  16686. try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
  16687. - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
  16688. - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
  16689. Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
  16690. Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
  16691. remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
  16692. configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
  16693. in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
  16694. TorK, etc. Or worse.
  16695. o Major security fixes:
  16696. - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
  16697. do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
  16698. Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
  16699. This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
  16700. for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
  16701. should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
  16702. o Major security fixes:
  16703. - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
  16704. do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
  16705. o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  16706. - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
  16707. defined there.
  16708. o Minor features (performance):
  16709. - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
  16710. empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
  16711. performance-intensive.
  16712. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
  16713. the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
  16714. now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
  16715. powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
  16716. slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
  16717. - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
  16718. exists.
  16719. Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
  16720. This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
  16721. blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
  16722. directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
  16723. and bugfixes.
  16724. o Major features:
  16725. - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
  16726. are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
  16727. people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
  16728. with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
  16729. See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
  16730. details.
  16731. - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
  16732. User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
  16733. under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
  16734. before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
  16735. pick these ports.)
  16736. - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
  16737. SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
  16738. on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
  16739. - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
  16740. traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
  16741. o Major features (experimental):
  16742. - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
  16743. vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
  16744. their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
  16745. handling before it's ready for use.
  16746. o Security fixes:
  16747. - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
  16748. at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
  16749. Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
  16750. complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
  16751. - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
  16752. Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
  16753. Damon McCoy.)
  16754. - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
  16755. procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
  16756. some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
  16757. solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
  16758. the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
  16759. o Major bugfixes (directory):
  16760. - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
  16761. a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
  16762. o Minor features (controller):
  16763. - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
  16764. match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  16765. - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
  16766. from Robert Hogan.)
  16767. - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
  16768. from Robert Hogan.)
  16769. - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
  16770. Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
  16771. from Tup.)
  16772. - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
  16773. controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
  16774. support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
  16775. - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
  16776. tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  16777. - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
  16778. with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
  16779. (Patch from Tup.)
  16780. o Minor features (misc):
  16781. - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
  16782. from croup.)
  16783. - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
  16784. files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
  16785. the authority identity key.
  16786. - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
  16787. free-lists.
  16788. - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
  16789. - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
  16790. if they generate a network status document that is somehow
  16791. malformed.
  16792. o Traffic load balancing improvements:
  16793. - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
  16794. use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
  16795. (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
  16796. - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
  16797. weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
  16798. would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
  16799. if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
  16800. o Performance improvements:
  16801. - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
  16802. memory free lists.
  16803. - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
  16804. on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
  16805. between processes.
  16806. o Deprecated and removed features:
  16807. - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
  16808. - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
  16809. We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
  16810. to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
  16811. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  16812. - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
  16813. Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
  16814. - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
  16815. have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
  16816. leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
  16817. - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
  16818. suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
  16819. servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
  16820. on 0.2.0.1-alpha]
  16821. o Minor bugfixes (dns):
  16822. - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
  16823. Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
  16824. - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
  16825. can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
  16826. on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
  16827. - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
  16828. changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
  16829. 0.2.0.2-alpha]
  16830. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  16831. - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
  16832. compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
  16833. field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
  16834. - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
  16835. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
  16836. from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
  16837. - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
  16838. events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
  16839. Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
  16840. Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
  16841. problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
  16842. bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
  16843. o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  16844. - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
  16845. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  16846. - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
  16847. an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
  16848. - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
  16849. routerlist while inserting a new router.
  16850. - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
  16851. don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
  16852. from croup.)
  16853. - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
  16854. orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
  16855. definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
  16856. o Major bugfixes (security):
  16857. - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
  16858. found by croup.
  16859. - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
  16860. the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
  16861. and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
  16862. - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
  16863. bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
  16864. cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
  16865. - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
  16866. never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
  16867. guard list unless we need to.
  16868. o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
  16869. - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
  16870. don't get overused as guards.
  16871. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  16872. - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
  16873. version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
  16874. - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
  16875. once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
  16876. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  16877. - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
  16878. connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
  16879. Resolves bug 444.
  16880. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  16881. - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  16882. cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
  16883. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
  16884. bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
  16885. unlikely. Patch from lodger.
  16886. - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
  16887. - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
  16888. Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
  16889. o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
  16890. - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
  16891. Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
  16892. o Minor features (directory):
  16893. - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
  16894. directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
  16895. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
  16896. are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
  16897. o Minor build issues:
  16898. - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
  16899. - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
  16900. installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
  16901. in the tarball, not as "x".
  16902. Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
  16903. This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
  16904. Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
  16905. config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
  16906. forward on a lot of fronts.
  16907. o Major features, server usability:
  16908. - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
  16909. a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
  16910. relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
  16911. OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
  16912. o Major features, client usability:
  16913. - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
  16914. dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
  16915. for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
  16916. anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
  16917. The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
  16918. - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
  16919. we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
  16920. do all of their connections protected by TLS.
  16921. o Major features, performance and efficiency:
  16922. - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
  16923. routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
  16924. that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
  16925. bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
  16926. the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
  16927. proposal 104.]
  16928. - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
  16929. them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
  16930. extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
  16931. proposal 104.]
  16932. - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
  16933. Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
  16934. client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
  16935. queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
  16936. will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
  16937. of traffic.
  16938. - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
  16939. efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
  16940. - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
  16941. buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
  16942. o Major features, other:
  16943. - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
  16944. can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
  16945. logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
  16946. - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
  16947. Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
  16948. o Security fixes:
  16949. - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
  16950. uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
  16951. in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
  16952. and Damon McCoy.
  16953. o Minor fixes (resource management):
  16954. - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
  16955. of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
  16956. our allocated connection limit.
  16957. - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
  16958. anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
  16959. Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
  16960. in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
  16961. client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
  16962. workaround.
  16963. - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
  16964. for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
  16965. 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
  16966. o Minor features (build):
  16967. - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
  16968. - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
  16969. - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
  16970. know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
  16971. warning.
  16972. - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
  16973. string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
  16974. some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
  16975. the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
  16976. Use this version consistently in log messages.
  16977. o Minor features (logging):
  16978. - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
  16979. - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
  16980. message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
  16981. OpenBSD or Windows or what.
  16982. - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
  16983. buffer type.
  16984. o Minor features (directory system):
  16985. - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
  16986. authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
  16987. not to serve V2 directory information.
  16988. - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
  16989. info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
  16990. implementing proposal 104 simpler.
  16991. o Minor features (controller):
  16992. - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
  16993. use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
  16994. preemptively.
  16995. - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
  16996. so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
  16997. - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
  16998. - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
  16999. whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
  17000. are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
  17001. o Minor features (hidden services):
  17002. - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
  17003. port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
  17004. of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
  17005. adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
  17006. o Minor features (other):
  17007. - More unit tests.
  17008. - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
  17009. resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
  17010. generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
  17011. allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
  17012. default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
  17013. patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
  17014. - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
  17015. address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
  17016. longer a completely silly thing to do.
  17017. - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
  17018. now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
  17019. - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
  17020. minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
  17021. o Removed features:
  17022. - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
  17023. This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
  17024. since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
  17025. back an error and close the connection.
  17026. - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
  17027. since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
  17028. eventdns code.
  17029. o Minor bugfixes (portability):
  17030. - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
  17031. try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
  17032. makes the log messages nicer.
  17033. - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
  17034. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  17035. partial results on small file reads.
  17036. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  17037. - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
  17038. more often than they are allowed to appear.
  17039. - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
  17040. logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
  17041. o Minor bugfixes (logging):
  17042. - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
  17043. don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
  17044. unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
  17045. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  17046. - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
  17047. server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
  17048. a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
  17049. explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
  17050. connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
  17051. - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
  17052. - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  17053. cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
  17054. - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
  17055. lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
  17056. in Oct 2004.)
  17057. - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
  17058. - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
  17059. because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
  17060. we restart.
  17061. - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
  17062. - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
  17063. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
  17064. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
  17065. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  17066. - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
  17067. server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
  17068. by daejees.
  17069. - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
  17070. caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
  17071. by daejees.
  17072. o Code simplifications and refactoring:
  17073. - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
  17074. implicit in other procedure arguments.
  17075. - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
  17076. corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
  17077. feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
  17078. - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
  17079. properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
  17080. - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
  17081. - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
  17082. a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
  17083. is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
  17084. Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
  17085. Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
  17086. change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
  17087. and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
  17088. o Directory authority changes:
  17089. - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
  17090. IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
  17091. or use hidden services.
  17092. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  17093. - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
  17094. as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
  17095. but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
  17096. behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
  17097. - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
  17098. to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
  17099. - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
  17100. - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
  17101. by lodger.)
  17102. o Major bugfixes (security):
  17103. - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
  17104. that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
  17105. that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
  17106. o Major bugfixes (resource management):
  17107. - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
  17108. networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
  17109. every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
  17110. - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
  17111. don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
  17112. not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
  17113. - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
  17114. lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
  17115. think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
  17116. o Minor bugfixes:
  17117. - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
  17118. purpose=controller.
  17119. - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
  17120. we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
  17121. network-statuses.
  17122. - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
  17123. having a hard time downloading.
  17124. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  17125. partial results on small file reads.
  17126. - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
  17127. routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
  17128. the gaps in the store get very large.
  17129. o Minor features:
  17130. - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
  17131. authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
  17132. documents.
  17133. - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
  17134. OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
  17135. Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
  17136. This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
  17137. selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
  17138. address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
  17139. well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
  17140. other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
  17141. Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
  17142. of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
  17143. free speech on the Internet.
  17144. o Minor fixes:
  17145. - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
  17146. get one we don't recognize.
  17147. - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
  17148. - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
  17149. Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
  17150. o Major bugfixes:
  17151. - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
  17152. directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
  17153. begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
  17154. serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
  17155. o Minor bugfixes:
  17156. - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
  17157. event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
  17158. Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
  17159. o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
  17160. - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
  17161. to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
  17162. - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
  17163. implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
  17164. ask for GUARDS too.
  17165. Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
  17166. o Major bugfixes (Windows):
  17167. - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
  17168. just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
  17169. on Win98 and friends again.
  17170. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  17171. - Clarify a couple of log messages.
  17172. - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
  17173. Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
  17174. o Major bugfixes (Windows):
  17175. - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
  17176. of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
  17177. int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
  17178. truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
  17179. MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
  17180. and maybe also bug 397.)
  17181. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  17182. - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
  17183. This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
  17184. o Minor bugfixes (server):
  17185. - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
  17186. time.
  17187. o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
  17188. - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
  17189. "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
  17190. uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
  17191. - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
  17192. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  17193. - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
  17194. load on authorities.
  17195. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  17196. - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
  17197. cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
  17198. - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
  17199. to INT32_MAX.
  17200. - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
  17201. Stefan Nordhausen.
  17202. - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
  17203. of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
  17204. means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
  17205. the last of bug 326.)
  17206. - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
  17207. descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
  17208. the 0.2.0 branch.
  17209. Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
  17210. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  17211. - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
  17212. one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
  17213. - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
  17214. arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
  17215. except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
  17216. resolves bug 389.)
  17217. - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
  17218. we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
  17219. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  17220. - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
  17221. in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
  17222. o Major bugfixes (accounting):
  17223. - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
  17224. up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
  17225. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  17226. - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
  17227. clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
  17228. that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
  17229. 3 of bug 367.
  17230. - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
  17231. protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
  17232. "INTERNAL".
  17233. - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
  17234. we finally get the IP from an exit node.
  17235. - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
  17236. long.
  17237. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  17238. - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
  17239. recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
  17240. - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
  17241. guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
  17242. from all known directories, not that it will have the average
  17243. bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
  17244. - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
  17245. and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
  17246. - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
  17247. user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
  17248. - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
  17249. other than file-not-found.
  17250. - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
  17251. perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
  17252. - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
  17253. in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
  17254. EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
  17255. - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
  17256. handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
  17257. on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
  17258. - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
  17259. tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
  17260. - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
  17261. no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
  17262. in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
  17263. we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
  17264. - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
  17265. comes back online.
  17266. - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
  17267. DNS request.
  17268. - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
  17269. nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
  17270. o Minor features (controller):
  17271. - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
  17272. control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
  17273. the next development series, so it's good to give people some
  17274. advance warning.
  17275. - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
  17276. use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  17277. - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
  17278. impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
  17279. mwenge; closes bug 394.)
  17280. - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
  17281. make them generated in every case where we get a successful
  17282. connected or resolved cell.
  17283. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  17284. - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
  17285. some profiles, but not others.)
  17286. - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
  17287. arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
  17288. (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
  17289. o Minor features:
  17290. - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
  17291. obsolete.
  17292. - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
  17293. certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
  17294. have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
  17295. the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
  17296. clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
  17297. than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
  17298. - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
  17299. which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
  17300. - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
  17301. directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
  17302. - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
  17303. ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
  17304. are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
  17305. - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
  17306. whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
  17307. bug 373.)
  17308. - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
  17309. Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
  17310. o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
  17311. - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
  17312. they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
  17313. more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
  17314. - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
  17315. - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
  17316. request.
  17317. - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
  17318. connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
  17319. - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
  17320. uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
  17321. buckets go absurdly negative.
  17322. - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
  17323. writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
  17324. trying to flush.
  17325. o Major bugfixes (NT services):
  17326. - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
  17327. command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
  17328. "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
  17329. existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
  17330. will look for its configuration file in the service user's
  17331. %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
  17332. directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
  17333. directory.)
  17334. o Major bugfixes (other):
  17335. - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
  17336. indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
  17337. discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
  17338. - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
  17339. Del Vecchio).
  17340. - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
  17341. pointer loops.
  17342. - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
  17343. ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
  17344. to become a guard.
  17345. - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
  17346. don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
  17347. to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
  17348. eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
  17349. slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
  17350. to wait for 0.2.0.)
  17351. o Minor bugfixes (dns):
  17352. - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
  17353. possible memory-stomping bugs.
  17354. - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
  17355. an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
  17356. extra bytes.)
  17357. - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
  17358. in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
  17359. - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
  17360. This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
  17361. - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
  17362. - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
  17363. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  17364. - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
  17365. - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
  17366. time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
  17367. time it is now.
  17368. - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
  17369. handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
  17370. days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
  17371. - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
  17372. "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
  17373. - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
  17374. - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
  17375. from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
  17376. download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
  17377. us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
  17378. - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
  17379. connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
  17380. - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
  17381. unstable ones.
  17382. - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
  17383. - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
  17384. - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
  17385. completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
  17386. - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
  17387. if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
  17388. to the resulting address.
  17389. o Major features:
  17390. - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
  17391. let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
  17392. succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
  17393. choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
  17394. o Minor features:
  17395. - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
  17396. new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
  17397. versions too.
  17398. - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
  17399. as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
  17400. override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
  17401. - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
  17402. take arguments rather than require direct editing.
  17403. - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
  17404. DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
  17405. was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
  17406. - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
  17407. directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
  17408. ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
  17409. create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
  17410. - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
  17411. - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
  17412. - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
  17413. get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
  17414. exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
  17415. line.
  17416. o Minor features (controller):
  17417. - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
  17418. available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
  17419. - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
  17420. can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
  17421. - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
  17422. - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
  17423. address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
  17424. directive.
  17425. Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
  17426. o Major bugfixes:
  17427. - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
  17428. connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
  17429. - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
  17430. advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
  17431. we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
  17432. Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
  17433. o Minor bugfixes:
  17434. - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
  17435. weren't planning to resolve.
  17436. - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
  17437. unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
  17438. - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
  17439. flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
  17440. the controller from learning about current events.
  17441. o Minor features (more controller status events):
  17442. - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
  17443. learn when our address changes.
  17444. - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
  17445. can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
  17446. - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
  17447. can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
  17448. to our SocksPort.
  17449. - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
  17450. can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
  17451. - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
  17452. Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
  17453. - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
  17454. when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
  17455. - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
  17456. server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
  17457. are accepted by a directory.
  17458. - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
  17459. server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
  17460. deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
  17461. - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
  17462. when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
  17463. be changed.
  17464. - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
  17465. and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
  17466. about changes to DNS server status.
  17467. o Minor features (directory):
  17468. - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
  17469. too much load to the exit nodes.
  17470. Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
  17471. o Major features:
  17472. - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
  17473. capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
  17474. than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
  17475. - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
  17476. would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
  17477. to send them.
  17478. - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
  17479. directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
  17480. the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
  17481. from Matt Edman.
  17482. - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
  17483. wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
  17484. their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
  17485. - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
  17486. server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
  17487. plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
  17488. config options if you like.
  17489. o Minor features (config and docs):
  17490. - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
  17491. the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
  17492. for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  17493. - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
  17494. disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
  17495. a timely fashion.
  17496. - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
  17497. the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
  17498. - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
  17499. - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
  17500. accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
  17501. options files.
  17502. - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
  17503. NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
  17504. - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
  17505. avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
  17506. AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
  17507. is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
  17508. - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
  17509. documentation: "make check-docs".
  17510. - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
  17511. addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
  17512. o Minor features (DNS):
  17513. - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
  17514. and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
  17515. - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
  17516. - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
  17517. - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
  17518. our tests for DNS hijacking.
  17519. o Minor features (directory):
  17520. - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
  17521. about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
  17522. clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
  17523. The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
  17524. protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
  17525. - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
  17526. clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
  17527. having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
  17528. moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
  17529. - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
  17530. are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
  17531. Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
  17532. - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
  17533. dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
  17534. gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
  17535. - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
  17536. count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
  17537. for the thing we're trying to download.
  17538. - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
  17539. connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
  17540. address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
  17541. internal.
  17542. - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
  17543. - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
  17544. can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
  17545. broken.
  17546. o Minor features (controller):
  17547. - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
  17548. - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
  17549. actual keys.
  17550. - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
  17551. - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
  17552. entry guard status as it changes.
  17553. o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
  17554. - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
  17555. 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
  17556. SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
  17557. to set log options.
  17558. - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
  17559. "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
  17560. secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
  17561. - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
  17562. preceded by "opt".
  17563. o Major bugfixes (security):
  17564. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  17565. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  17566. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  17567. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  17568. is set.
  17569. - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
  17570. 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
  17571. - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
  17572. keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
  17573. we never stay up for a week ourselves.
  17574. o Major bugfixes (other):
  17575. - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
  17576. timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
  17577. give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
  17578. 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
  17579. after that.
  17580. - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
  17581. schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
  17582. seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
  17583. a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
  17584. - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
  17585. would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
  17586. by John Kimble.
  17587. o Minor bugfixes:
  17588. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  17589. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  17590. unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
  17591. - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
  17592. - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
  17593. Fabian Keil.
  17594. - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
  17595. to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
  17596. it by name.
  17597. - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
  17598. even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
  17599. family lists conveniently.
  17600. - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
  17601. nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
  17602. user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
  17603. bug 363.)
  17604. - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
  17605. - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
  17606. changed.
  17607. - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
  17608. our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
  17609. raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
  17610. - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
  17611. if their identity keys are as expected.
  17612. - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
  17613. suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
  17614. - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
  17615. o Minor bugfixes (controller):
  17616. - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
  17617. reported by Mike Perry.
  17618. - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
  17619. when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
  17620. - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
  17621. controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
  17622. Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
  17623. o Security bugfixes:
  17624. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  17625. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  17626. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  17627. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  17628. is set.
  17629. o Minor bugfixes:
  17630. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  17631. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  17632. unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  17633. Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
  17634. o Major features:
  17635. - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
  17636. 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
  17637. SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
  17638. o Minor features:
  17639. - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
  17640. immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
  17641. successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
  17642. watching for STREAM events.
  17643. - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
  17644. hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
  17645. - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
  17646. operations, for profiling.
  17647. o Major bugfixes:
  17648. - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
  17649. approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
  17650. an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
  17651. - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
  17652. the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
  17653. until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
  17654. Zajcev Evgeny.)
  17655. - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
  17656. startup.
  17657. o Minor bugfixes:
  17658. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  17659. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  17660. - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
  17661. without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
  17662. restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
  17663. per day.
  17664. - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
  17665. correctly in the Windows installer.
  17666. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  17667. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  17668. - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
  17669. MIPSpro C compiler.
  17670. - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
  17671. when we're running as a client.
  17672. Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
  17673. o Major bugfixes:
  17674. - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
  17675. an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
  17676. answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  17677. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
  17678. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  17679. its circuits on demand.
  17680. - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
  17681. require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
  17682. we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
  17683. connections more stable on average.
  17684. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  17685. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  17686. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  17687. o Security bugfixes:
  17688. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  17689. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  17690. o Minor bugfixes:
  17691. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  17692. the first time.
  17693. - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
  17694. certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
  17695. handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  17696. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  17697. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  17698. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  17699. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  17700. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  17701. Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
  17702. o Minor features:
  17703. - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
  17704. discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
  17705. recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
  17706. the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
  17707. routers for even longer.
  17708. - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
  17709. don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
  17710. authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
  17711. - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
  17712. headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
  17713. caching HTTP proxies.
  17714. - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
  17715. address.
  17716. o Minor features, controller:
  17717. - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
  17718. field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
  17719. event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
  17720. a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
  17721. Mike Perry)
  17722. - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
  17723. controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
  17724. - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
  17725. working much like those for circuit events.
  17726. - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
  17727. about the current status of a router.
  17728. - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
  17729. a router's status has changed.
  17730. - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
  17731. can tell which events and features are supported.
  17732. - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
  17733. client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
  17734. o Security bugfixes:
  17735. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  17736. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  17737. o Minor bugfixes:
  17738. - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
  17739. uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
  17740. - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
  17741. service circuits (reported by mwenge).
  17742. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  17743. - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
  17744. about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
  17745. long nicknames where appropriate.
  17746. - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
  17747. build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
  17748. - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
  17749. chews through many circuits before giving up.
  17750. - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
  17751. esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
  17752. - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
  17753. stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
  17754. - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
  17755. make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
  17756. not requested.
  17757. - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
  17758. printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
  17759. - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
  17760. for sure!)
  17761. - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
  17762. - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
  17763. corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
  17764. with mmap). This bug was harmless.
  17765. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
  17766. to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
  17767. make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
  17768. unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
  17769. - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
  17770. (reported by fookoowa).
  17771. - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
  17772. and reported by some Centos users.
  17773. - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
  17774. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
  17775. - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
  17776. values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
  17777. - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
  17778. Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
  17779. before we check for libevent.
  17780. Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
  17781. o Major features:
  17782. - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
  17783. and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
  17784. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  17785. records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  17786. IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
  17787. now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
  17788. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
  17789. lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
  17790. - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
  17791. connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
  17792. to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
  17793. - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
  17794. total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
  17795. the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
  17796. - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
  17797. DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
  17798. redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
  17799. DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
  17800. RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
  17801. lets you turn it off.
  17802. - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
  17803. that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
  17804. a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
  17805. us into the directory more quickly.
  17806. o New/improved config options:
  17807. - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
  17808. choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
  17809. - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
  17810. servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
  17811. is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
  17812. all the machines on the same subnet.
  17813. - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
  17814. directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
  17815. if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
  17816. the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
  17817. - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
  17818. for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
  17819. as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
  17820. authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
  17821. to continue being hidden service authorities too.
  17822. - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
  17823. o Minor features, controller:
  17824. - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
  17825. identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
  17826. - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
  17827. of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
  17828. for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
  17829. and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
  17830. for more information.
  17831. - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
  17832. best guess to the user.
  17833. - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
  17834. descriptor has changed.
  17835. - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
  17836. o Minor features, other:
  17837. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
  17838. requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
  17839. useful to the network.
  17840. - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
  17841. - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
  17842. a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
  17843. authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
  17844. clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
  17845. - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
  17846. For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
  17847. its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
  17848. - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
  17849. to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
  17850. - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
  17851. not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
  17852. - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
  17853. OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
  17854. because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
  17855. o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
  17856. - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
  17857. in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
  17858. could return an unnamed server instead.
  17859. - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
  17860. to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
  17861. and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
  17862. - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
  17863. many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
  17864. a more attractive target for compromise.)
  17865. - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
  17866. able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
  17867. only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
  17868. o Major bugfixes, other:
  17869. - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
  17870. - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
  17871. an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  17872. Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
  17873. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  17874. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  17875. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
  17876. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  17877. its circuits on demand.
  17878. - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
  17879. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  17880. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  17881. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  17882. o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
  17883. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  17884. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  17885. we don't recognize.
  17886. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  17887. the first time.
  17888. - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
  17889. from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
  17890. printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  17891. - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
  17892. "extendcircuit" request.
  17893. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  17894. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  17895. - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
  17896. is detached.
  17897. - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
  17898. - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
  17899. instead of "X resolved to X".
  17900. - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
  17901. - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
  17902. 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
  17903. authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
  17904. us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
  17905. - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
  17906. 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
  17907. - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
  17908. ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
  17909. an address.
  17910. - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
  17911. ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
  17912. then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
  17913. - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
  17914. result more than once.
  17915. - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
  17916. non-versioning dirservers.
  17917. - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
  17918. via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
  17919. o Minor bugfixes, performance:
  17920. - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
  17921. - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
  17922. algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  17923. - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  17924. malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  17925. - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
  17926. a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
  17927. - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
  17928. o Packaging, features:
  17929. - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
  17930. now universal binaries.
  17931. - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
  17932. to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
  17933. - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
  17934. o Packaging, bugfixes:
  17935. - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
  17936. - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
  17937. - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
  17938. building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
  17939. Debian woody.
  17940. - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
  17941. - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
  17942. - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
  17943. o Documentation
  17944. - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
  17945. ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
  17946. - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
  17947. multiple times.
  17948. Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
  17949. o Major bugfixes:
  17950. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  17951. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  17952. - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
  17953. whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
  17954. do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
  17955. This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
  17956. - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
  17957. it can't resolve its hostname.
  17958. o Minor bugfixes:
  17959. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  17960. - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
  17961. "extendcircuit" request.
  17962. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  17963. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  17964. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  17965. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  17966. voodoo.
  17967. - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
  17968. uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
  17969. only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
  17970. tolower().
  17971. - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
  17972. methods: these are known to be buggy.
  17973. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  17974. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  17975. we don't recognize.
  17976. Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
  17977. o Major features:
  17978. - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
  17979. build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
  17980. --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
  17981. - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
  17982. IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
  17983. kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
  17984. error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
  17985. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  17986. application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
  17987. 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  17988. that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  17989. - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
  17990. this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
  17991. into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
  17992. implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
  17993. without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
  17994. - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
  17995. descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
  17996. as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
  17997. files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
  17998. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  17999. /16 network when constructing a circuit.
  18000. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  18001. a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  18002. o Minor features:
  18003. - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  18004. split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  18005. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  18006. also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  18007. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  18008. or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  18009. it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  18010. win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  18011. recommendation system saner.)
  18012. - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
  18013. to Phobos).
  18014. - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  18015. don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  18016. - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
  18017. - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
  18018. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  18019. such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  18020. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  18021. haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
  18022. causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  18023. you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
  18024. - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  18025. descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  18026. your ORPort is set.
  18027. - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
  18028. no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  18029. authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  18030. long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  18031. connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  18032. more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  18033. 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  18034. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  18035. to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  18036. - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
  18037. bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
  18038. separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
  18039. it is.
  18040. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  18041. to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  18042. we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  18043. other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  18044. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  18045. and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  18046. o Major bugfixes:
  18047. - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  18048. so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  18049. - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  18050. if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  18051. our DirPort now, etc.
  18052. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  18053. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  18054. move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  18055. Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  18056. the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  18057. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  18058. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  18059. voodoo.
  18060. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  18061. whether the config options are bad or good.
  18062. - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
  18063. address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
  18064. pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
  18065. in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
  18066. eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
  18067. - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  18068. its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  18069. back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  18070. o Minor bugfixes:
  18071. - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
  18072. - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  18073. - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  18074. when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  18075. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  18076. useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  18077. - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
  18078. before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
  18079. - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
  18080. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  18081. - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
  18082. server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
  18083. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  18084. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  18085. as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  18086. of it), is not therefore "up".
  18087. - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  18088. actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  18089. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  18090. throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  18091. handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  18092. goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  18093. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  18094. o Major bugfixes:
  18095. - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  18096. due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  18097. bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  18098. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  18099. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  18100. then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  18101. circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  18102. changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  18103. test reachability, so you won't publish.
  18104. o Minor bugfixes:
  18105. - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  18106. and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  18107. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  18108. a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  18109. a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  18110. later than now.
  18111. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  18112. own server descriptor yet.
  18113. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  18114. o Major bugfixes:
  18115. - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  18116. reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  18117. servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  18118. make sure to test via one of these.
  18119. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  18120. descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  18121. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  18122. descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  18123. servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  18124. o Minor bugfixes:
  18125. - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  18126. "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  18127. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  18128. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  18129. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  18130. - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  18131. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  18132. directory authority.
  18133. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  18134. while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  18135. exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  18136. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  18137. o Other fixes:
  18138. - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  18139. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  18140. first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  18141. right after that.
  18142. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  18143. and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  18144. again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  18145. current guards when picking a new guard.
  18146. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  18147. is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  18148. when we had more than one pending.
  18149. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  18150. Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  18151. a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  18152. - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  18153. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  18154. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  18155. mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  18156. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  18157. middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  18158. debug the reachability problems better.
  18159. o Log / documentation fixes:
  18160. - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  18161. log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  18162. about protocol violations by others.
  18163. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  18164. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  18165. about what happened to our old torrc.
  18166. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  18167. o Bugfixes:
  18168. - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
  18169. invalid.
  18170. - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
  18171. - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
  18172. - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
  18173. more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
  18174. Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
  18175. o Minor bugs:
  18176. - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  18177. it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  18178. - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
  18179. old ORPort and receive connections.
  18180. - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
  18181. GNU/kFreeBSD.
  18182. - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
  18183. Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
  18184. and network-statuses.
  18185. - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
  18186. directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
  18187. - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
  18188. registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
  18189. false positives.
  18190. - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
  18191. o Features:
  18192. - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  18193. get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  18194. around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  18195. Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
  18196. o Major fixes:
  18197. - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
  18198. directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
  18199. decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
  18200. - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
  18201. v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
  18202. o Minor fixes:
  18203. - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
  18204. reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
  18205. mirrors.
  18206. - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
  18207. his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
  18208. - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
  18209. - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
  18210. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  18211. - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
  18212. files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
  18213. - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
  18214. rather than not sending anything back at all.
  18215. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  18216. socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
  18217. leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
  18218. - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
  18219. is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
  18220. - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
  18221. - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
  18222. could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
  18223. clients more convinced that it's recommended.
  18224. - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
  18225. with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
  18226. them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
  18227. to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
  18228. - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
  18229. - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
  18230. Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
  18231. - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
  18232. "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
  18233. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  18234. so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  18235. default ulimit -n is 1024.
  18236. o New features:
  18237. - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
  18238. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  18239. for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  18240. to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  18241. Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
  18242. o Major fixes:
  18243. - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
  18244. connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
  18245. have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
  18246. discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
  18247. entry guards running these flawed versions.
  18248. - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
  18249. was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
  18250. - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
  18251. because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
  18252. include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
  18253. o Minor fixes:
  18254. - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
  18255. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
  18256. "-Wall -g -O2".
  18257. - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  18258. and it is confusing some users.
  18259. - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
  18260. - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
  18261. rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
  18262. - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
  18263. win32 versions it thinks it's found.
  18264. o New features:
  18265. - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
  18266. server.
  18267. - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  18268. message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
  18269. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  18270. like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  18271. top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  18272. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  18273. have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  18274. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  18275. - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
  18276. directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
  18277. dirport is set for now.
  18278. o New config options rather than constants in the code:
  18279. - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  18280. unattached before we fail it?
  18281. - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  18282. at least this many seconds ago.
  18283. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  18284. at least this many seconds ago.
  18285. Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
  18286. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
  18287. - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
  18288. or resolve-wait stream.
  18289. - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
  18290. to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
  18291. "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
  18292. - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
  18293. can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
  18294. - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
  18295. a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  18296. when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
  18297. hang up on them.
  18298. - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
  18299. - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
  18300. hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
  18301. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  18302. authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  18303. - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
  18304. given as hex digests.
  18305. - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
  18306. hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
  18307. - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
  18308. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  18309. reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  18310. - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
  18311. for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
  18312. that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
  18313. at the socks side.
  18314. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18315. - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
  18316. remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  18317. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  18318. our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  18319. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
  18320. there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  18321. - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
  18322. our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
  18323. interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
  18324. that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
  18325. o New features:
  18326. - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
  18327. directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
  18328. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  18329. that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  18330. SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
  18331. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  18332. using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  18333. Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
  18334. o Bugfixes and cleanups:
  18335. - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  18336. non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
  18337. sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
  18338. misreading their logs.
  18339. - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
  18340. left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
  18341. the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
  18342. descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
  18343. valid router descriptors.
  18344. - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
  18345. command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
  18346. Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
  18347. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
  18348. (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  18349. silently resetting it to its default.
  18350. - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
  18351. a whole month.
  18352. - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
  18353. o New features:
  18354. - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
  18355. use clean circuits.
  18356. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  18357. for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
  18358. controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
  18359. starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
  18360. command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
  18361. created.
  18362. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  18363. because older Tors do not understand it.
  18364. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  18365. Thoenen.
  18366. Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
  18367. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
  18368. - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
  18369. and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
  18370. - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
  18371. caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
  18372. fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
  18373. - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
  18374. - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
  18375. if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
  18376. not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
  18377. had changed.
  18378. - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
  18379. downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
  18380. - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
  18381. meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
  18382. connections.
  18383. - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
  18384. permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
  18385. o Features:
  18386. - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  18387. as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  18388. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  18389. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  18390. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  18391. without getting overloaded.
  18392. - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
  18393. and remove them.
  18394. - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
  18395. picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  18396. - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
  18397. be forward-compatible.
  18398. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  18399. warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  18400. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  18401. dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  18402. makes sense.
  18403. - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
  18404. ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
  18405. and OR conns to port 443.
  18406. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  18407. Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  18408. target arch.
  18409. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  18410. and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  18411. info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  18412. PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  18413. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  18414. option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  18415. Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  18416. Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  18417. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18418. - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  18419. sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  18420. o Other important bugfixes:
  18421. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  18422. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  18423. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  18424. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  18425. o Backported features:
  18426. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  18427. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  18428. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  18429. without getting overloaded.
  18430. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  18431. once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  18432. 503's whenever they feel busy.
  18433. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  18434. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  18435. directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  18436. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  18437. from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  18438. Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
  18439. o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
  18440. - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
  18441. crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
  18442. - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
  18443. servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
  18444. random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
  18445. know if the crashes continue.
  18446. - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
  18447. somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
  18448. seg faults in at least some cases.)
  18449. - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  18450. a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  18451. "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
  18452. o Major fixes:
  18453. - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
  18454. chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  18455. a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  18456. try to be a bit more fair.
  18457. - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
  18458. descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
  18459. - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
  18460. were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
  18461. it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
  18462. bug that let it go negative.
  18463. - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
  18464. returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
  18465. a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
  18466. transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
  18467. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  18468. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  18469. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  18470. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  18471. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
  18472. 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  18473. addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  18474. o Major features:
  18475. - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
  18476. descriptors.
  18477. - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
  18478. clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
  18479. service descriptors.
  18480. o Minor features:
  18481. - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
  18482. try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
  18483. a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
  18484. - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
  18485. do anything about.
  18486. - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
  18487. the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
  18488. versions *are* still recommended.
  18489. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  18490. the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  18491. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  18492. will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  18493. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  18494. log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  18495. - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
  18496. Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  18497. easily.
  18498. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  18499. config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  18500. that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  18501. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  18502. if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  18503. - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
  18504. "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
  18505. on it. Not used by clients yet.
  18506. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
  18507. search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  18508. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
  18509. - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  18510. circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
  18511. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  18512. established a circuit.
  18513. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  18514. it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  18515. .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  18516. that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  18517. Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
  18518. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
  18519. - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
  18520. Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
  18521. quickly enough. Oops.
  18522. - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
  18523. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18524. - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  18525. Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
  18526. o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
  18527. - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
  18528. - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
  18529. races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
  18530. - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
  18531. - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
  18532. - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
  18533. that moment you dump his server descriptor.
  18534. - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
  18535. assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
  18536. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  18537. and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
  18538. - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  18539. your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
  18540. it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  18541. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
  18542. o Major features:
  18543. - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
  18544. nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  18545. when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  18546. become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  18547. dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  18548. config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  18549. want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  18550. - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
  18551. fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
  18552. authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
  18553. This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
  18554. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  18555. the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  18556. attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  18557. to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  18558. connections more reliable.
  18559. o Major fixes:
  18560. - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  18561. hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  18562. the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  18563. the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  18564. rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  18565. - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
  18566. to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
  18567. fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
  18568. server descriptors so clients can't get them.
  18569. - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
  18570. rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
  18571. really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
  18572. - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
  18573. testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
  18574. 20 minutes.
  18575. o Minor fixes:
  18576. - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
  18577. we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
  18578. network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
  18579. obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
  18580. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
  18581. need to be uint64_t's.
  18582. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  18583. to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  18584. on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
  18585. carefully.
  18586. - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
  18587. setconf/reload.
  18588. - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
  18589. logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
  18590. - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  18591. circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  18592. - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
  18593. of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
  18594. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  18595. connections.
  18596. - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
  18597. a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
  18598. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  18599. "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  18600. - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
  18601. meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
  18602. descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
  18603. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  18604. the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  18605. - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
  18606. requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
  18607. - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  18608. line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  18609. o Minor features:
  18610. - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
  18611. keeping forward and backward compatibility.
  18612. - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
  18613. now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
  18614. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  18615. not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  18616. go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  18617. to bootstrap.
  18618. - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
  18619. cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
  18620. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  18621. can answer v2 directory requests too.
  18622. - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
  18623. they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
  18624. it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  18625. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  18626. of fields.
  18627. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  18628. server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  18629. line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  18630. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
  18631. a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  18632. revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  18633. - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
  18634. "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
  18635. refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
  18636. - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
  18637. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  18638. get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  18639. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  18640. docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
  18641. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  18642. are known.
  18643. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  18644. latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  18645. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  18646. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18647. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  18648. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  18649. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  18650. - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  18651. too -- so detect and avoid this.
  18652. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  18653. giving an error).
  18654. - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  18655. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  18656. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  18657. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  18658. don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  18659. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  18660. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  18661. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  18662. rendezvous circuits.
  18663. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  18664. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18665. - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  18666. messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  18667. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  18668. advertising it because of hibernation.
  18669. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  18670. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  18671. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  18672. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  18673. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  18674. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  18675. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  18676. the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  18677. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  18678. - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  18679. exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  18680. policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  18681. as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  18682. reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  18683. Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
  18684. o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18685. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  18686. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  18687. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  18688. - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  18689. Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  18690. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  18691. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  18692. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  18693. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  18694. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  18695. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  18696. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  18697. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  18698. broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  18699. connections once a week.
  18700. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  18701. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  18702. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  18703. would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  18704. servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  18705. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
  18706. build with -ldl.
  18707. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  18708. rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  18709. - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
  18710. o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18711. - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
  18712. the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  18713. humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  18714. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  18715. don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
  18716. - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
  18717. . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  18718. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  18719. firewall options forbid.
  18720. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  18721. firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  18722. can only proxy to certain destinations.
  18723. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  18724. circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  18725. introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  18726. useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  18727. aids some statistical attacks.
  18728. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  18729. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  18730. have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  18731. exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  18732. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
  18733. - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
  18734. flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
  18735. server descriptor sometimes.
  18736. - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
  18737. - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
  18738. sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
  18739. - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
  18740. user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
  18741. the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
  18742. controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
  18743. option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
  18744. DirServer lines.
  18745. - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
  18746. case the controller wants to change that too.
  18747. - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
  18748. accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
  18749. - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
  18750. chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
  18751. be verified.
  18752. - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
  18753. circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
  18754. address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
  18755. otherwise.
  18756. - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
  18757. descriptors that they know they will reject.
  18758. o Features and updates:
  18759. - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
  18760. significantly faster.
  18761. - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
  18762. rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
  18763. - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  18764. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  18765. do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  18766. already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  18767. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
  18768. applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  18769. socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  18770. with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  18771. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
  18772. lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  18773. and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  18774. since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  18775. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  18776. you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  18777. every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  18778. - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
  18779. all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
  18780. as authoritative dirserver.
  18781. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  18782. tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  18783. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
  18784. Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
  18785. o Usability improvements:
  18786. - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  18787. since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  18788. or port.
  18789. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  18790. them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  18791. lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  18792. by default.
  18793. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  18794. of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  18795. log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  18796. - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
  18797. instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
  18798. - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  18799. string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  18800. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  18801. memory leaks better.
  18802. - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
  18803. default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
  18804. their operators to pay close attention.
  18805. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  18806. a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  18807. o Performance improvements:
  18808. - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
  18809. haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  18810. tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  18811. minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  18812. - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
  18813. - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
  18814. can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
  18815. to resolve a performance bottleneck.
  18816. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  18817. truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  18818. descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  18819. DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  18820. - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  18821. 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  18822. translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  18823. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  18824. of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  18825. o Security improvements:
  18826. - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
  18827. clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
  18828. fingerprint of server.
  18829. - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
  18830. to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
  18831. weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
  18832. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18833. - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
  18834. more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
  18835. crash bug. It might also slow things down.
  18836. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  18837. keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  18838. each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  18839. periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  18840. - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  18841. node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  18842. already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
  18843. - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
  18844. upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
  18845. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  18846. connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  18847. space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  18848. feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  18849. been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  18850. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  18851. we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  18852. option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  18853. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
  18854. - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
  18855. - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
  18856. it as obsolete.
  18857. - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
  18858. generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
  18859. we do.
  18860. - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
  18861. server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
  18862. content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
  18863. fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
  18864. - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
  18865. of the controller protocol.
  18866. - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
  18867. are suppressing it because of hibernation.
  18868. - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
  18869. Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
  18870. o New features (major):
  18871. - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
  18872. download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
  18873. and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  18874. See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
  18875. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  18876. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  18877. and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
  18878. we're using a default DirPort.
  18879. - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
  18880. o New features (minor):
  18881. - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
  18882. server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
  18883. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  18884. mirrors still cache and serve it).
  18885. - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
  18886. an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
  18887. deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  18888. - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
  18889. config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
  18890. useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
  18891. and usable even if we know they're jerks.
  18892. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
  18893. of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  18894. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
  18895. - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  18896. without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  18897. - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
  18898. how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
  18899. us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
  18900. responses.
  18901. - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
  18902. using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
  18903. link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
  18904. HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
  18905. - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
  18906. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  18907. OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  18908. startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  18909. o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
  18910. - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
  18911. version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
  18912. - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
  18913. v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
  18914. - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
  18915. - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
  18916. to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
  18917. - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
  18918. its expected nickname if is_named is set.
  18919. o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
  18920. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  18921. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  18922. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  18923. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  18924. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18925. - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  18926. out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  18927. through privoxy.
  18928. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  18929. even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
  18930. for this case.
  18931. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
  18932. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  18933. use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  18934. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  18935. warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
  18936. don't warn twice about the same name.
  18937. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  18938. if we've not heard of the server.
  18939. - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
  18940. - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
  18941. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  18942. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18943. - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  18944. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  18945. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  18946. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  18947. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  18948. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  18949. be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  18950. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  18951. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  18952. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  18953. - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  18954. most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  18955. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  18956. Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
  18957. o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
  18958. - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
  18959. connection to an address not in their exit policy.
  18960. - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
  18961. cause a segfault.
  18962. - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
  18963. fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
  18964. - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  18965. - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  18966. out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  18967. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  18968. unreachability.
  18969. o New features:
  18970. - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
  18971. It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
  18972. nickname) is reachable by you.
  18973. - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
  18974. enabled yet.
  18975. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
  18976. - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  18977. we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  18978. [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  18979. November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
  18980. - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  18981. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  18982. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  18983. from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  18984. we fail to connect).
  18985. - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
  18986. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  18987. service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  18988. back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  18989. that anyway.
  18990. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  18991. it was self-testing that told us so.
  18992. Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
  18993. o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
  18994. - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
  18995. - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
  18996. - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
  18997. - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
  18998. - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
  18999. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  19000. - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
  19001. exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
  19002. 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
  19003. exit policy using him for any exits.
  19004. - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
  19005. at least 0.9.7.
  19006. o New controller features/fixes:
  19007. - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
  19008. AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  19009. a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  19010. entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  19011. - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
  19012. - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
  19013. - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
  19014. - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
  19015. other redundant entries to the torrc file.
  19016. o Start on the new directory design:
  19017. - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
  19018. - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
  19019. "tell me yours").
  19020. - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
  19021. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
  19022. compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
  19023. descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
  19024. memory-efficient.
  19025. - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
  19026. from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
  19027. - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  19028. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  19029. moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
  19030. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  19031. support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  19032. to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  19033. o New features:
  19034. - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
  19035. Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
  19036. be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  19037. it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  19038. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  19039. destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  19040. which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  19041. that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  19042. authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  19043. use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  19044. if you can.
  19045. - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
  19046. controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  19047. changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  19048. worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  19049. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  19050. hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  19051. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  19052. log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  19053. Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  19054. o Config option changes:
  19055. - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
  19056. ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
  19057. For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
  19058. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  19059. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  19060. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  19061. o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19062. - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
  19063. people have started using them for spam too.
  19064. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  19065. reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  19066. has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  19067. servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  19068. high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  19069. suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  19070. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  19071. was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
  19072. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  19073. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  19074. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  19075. build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  19076. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  19077. services faster on the service end.
  19078. - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
  19079. should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
  19080. from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
  19081. it a fair shake next time we try.
  19082. - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
  19083. - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
  19084. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  19085. server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  19086. we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  19087. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  19088. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  19089. able to discover them.
  19090. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  19091. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  19092. are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
  19093. problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
  19094. preferentially resolving them to partition users.
  19095. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  19096. as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  19097. testing for reachability.
  19098. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  19099. more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  19100. to the torrc.
  19101. - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
  19102. option.
  19103. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  19104. run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  19105. Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
  19106. o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
  19107. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19108. - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  19109. torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  19110. it would silently using ignore the 6668.
  19111. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  19112. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19113. - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  19114. (CVE-2005-2643).
  19115. - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  19116. controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  19117. Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
  19118. o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
  19119. o Features:
  19120. - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  19121. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  19122. - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
  19123. options, getinfo keys.
  19124. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  19125. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19126. - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  19127. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  19128. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  19129. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  19130. pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  19131. in the start menu.
  19132. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  19133. new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  19134. not-broken.
  19135. Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
  19136. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
  19137. - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
  19138. function.
  19139. - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
  19140. function.
  19141. - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
  19142. - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
  19143. circuit events and we go offline.
  19144. - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
  19145. - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
  19146. you don't have enough intro points already.
  19147. o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
  19148. - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  19149. many bytes we've used in this time period.
  19150. - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
  19151. a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
  19152. nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
  19153. stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
  19154. enabled by default yet.
  19155. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
  19156. - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
  19157. even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
  19158. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  19159. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  19160. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  19161. o New directory servers:
  19162. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  19163. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19164. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  19165. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  19166. pthreads libraries.
  19167. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  19168. claims its dirport is 0.
  19169. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  19170. getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  19171. Edman for the fix.
  19172. Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
  19173. o New directory servers:
  19174. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  19175. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
  19176. - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
  19177. 0.1.0.11.
  19178. - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
  19179. - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  19180. closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  19181. ports that have changed.
  19182. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  19183. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
  19184. - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  19185. Windows-style errno back.
  19186. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
  19187. they
  19188. want to make it an NT service.
  19189. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
  19190. - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
  19191. name, give the full name in our response.
  19192. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  19193. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  19194. running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  19195. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  19196. pthreads libraries.
  19197. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
  19198. - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
  19199. being used.
  19200. o Features:
  19201. - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
  19202. let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
  19203. in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
  19204. - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  19205. entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  19206. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  19207. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  19208. - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  19209. exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  19210. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  19211. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  19212. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  19213. - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  19214. Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
  19215. o Bugfixes:
  19216. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  19217. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  19218. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  19219. - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  19220. - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
  19221. private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
  19222. fix it.
  19223. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  19224. temporarily unreachable.
  19225. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  19226. culling them.
  19227. o Features:
  19228. - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  19229. than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
  19230. can use the controller from your applications without caring how
  19231. our protocol works.
  19232. - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
  19233. test this?
  19234. Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  19235. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  19236. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  19237. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  19238. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  19239. (CVE-2005-2050).
  19240. Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  19241. o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
  19242. libevent before 1.1a.
  19243. Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
  19244. o Bugfixes:
  19245. - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
  19246. a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
  19247. - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
  19248. - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  19249. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  19250. Administrator.
  19251. - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
  19252. cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
  19253. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  19254. OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  19255. OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  19256. of CPU time plus memory.
  19257. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  19258. normal web requests.
  19259. - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
  19260. tor_lookup_hostname().
  19261. - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  19262. already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  19263. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  19264. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  19265. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  19266. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  19267. on FreeBSD)
  19268. - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
  19269. KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
  19270. HttpProxyAuthenticator
  19271. - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  19272. pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
  19273. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
  19274. certain
  19275. installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  19276. the user asks you to.
  19277. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  19278. addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  19279. IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  19280. their descriptors are being rejected.
  19281. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  19282. come later.
  19283. Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
  19284. o Bugfixes:
  19285. - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
  19286. panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
  19287. - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
  19288. spec file.
  19289. - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
  19290. reentrant either.
  19291. - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
  19292. ancient.
  19293. - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
  19294. - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
  19295. version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
  19296. to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
  19297. even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
  19298. - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
  19299. a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
  19300. keys) from the exit server's process.
  19301. - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
  19302. have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
  19303. - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
  19304. so it doesn't seg fault on error.
  19305. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  19306. point at your Tor server.
  19307. - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
  19308. you're not sending a socks reply back.
  19309. o Features:
  19310. - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
  19311. the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
  19312. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  19313. to make it easier to write controllers.
  19314. Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
  19315. o Bugfixes:
  19316. - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
  19317. installing on Tiger.
  19318. - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
  19319. complain during installation.
  19320. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  19321. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  19322. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  19323. after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  19324. if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  19325. assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  19326. error message.
  19327. - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
  19328. something more reasonable when first installing.
  19329. - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
  19330. Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
  19331. o Bugfixes:
  19332. - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  19333. netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
  19334. functions.
  19335. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
  19336. release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
  19337. - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
  19338. addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
  19339. when using the default exit policy.
  19340. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
  19341. a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  19342. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  19343. LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  19344. - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
  19345. - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
  19346. from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
  19347. - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
  19348. it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
  19349. we fetched a new directory.
  19350. - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
  19351. libevent warning on some Linuxes.
  19352. o Features:
  19353. - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  19354. the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  19355. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  19356. reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  19357. it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  19358. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  19359. these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  19360. provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  19361. clients yet.
  19362. - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
  19363. contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  19364. - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
  19365. save memory on systems that need to fork.
  19366. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  19367. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  19368. is valid without actually launching Tor.
  19369. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
  19370. rather than just rejecting it.
  19371. Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
  19372. o Bugfixes:
  19373. - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
  19374. we didn't like its cert.
  19375. o Features:
  19376. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  19377. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  19378. - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
  19379. on patch from Adam Langley.
  19380. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  19381. the fast servers that have been joining lately.
  19382. - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
  19383. since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
  19384. robustness more.
  19385. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  19386. directory every time you regenerate it.
  19387. - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
  19388. pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
  19389. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  19390. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  19391. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  19392. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  19393. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  19394. Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
  19395. o Bugfixes:
  19396. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  19397. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  19398. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  19399. - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
  19400. logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
  19401. telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
  19402. track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
  19403. and don't log when you are.
  19404. - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
  19405. non-complete success, only say "done" once.
  19406. o Features:
  19407. - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
  19408. of advertised bandwidth capacity.
  19409. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  19410. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  19411. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  19412. Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
  19413. o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
  19414. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  19415. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  19416. - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
  19417. - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
  19418. now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
  19419. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  19420. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  19421. nickname+key are allowed.
  19422. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  19423. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  19424. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  19425. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  19426. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  19427. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  19428. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  19429. have quite wrong clocks).
  19430. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  19431. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  19432. - Efficiency improvements:
  19433. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  19434. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  19435. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  19436. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  19437. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  19438. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  19439. lowercase and be done with it.
  19440. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
  19441. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  19442. to abandon partially built circuits.
  19443. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
  19444. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  19445. yell so much.
  19446. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  19447. exit policy.
  19448. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  19449. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  19450. Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
  19451. - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
  19452. fails.
  19453. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  19454. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  19455. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
  19456. - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
  19457. descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
  19458. obeying the exit policy internally.
  19459. - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
  19460. connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
  19461. connection_free().
  19462. - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
  19463. the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
  19464. when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
  19465. cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
  19466. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
  19467. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  19468. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  19469. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  19470. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  19471. get the nodes.
  19472. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  19473. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  19474. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  19475. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  19476. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  19477. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  19478. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  19479. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  19480. descriptors we just dropped.
  19481. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  19482. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  19483. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  19484. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  19485. artificially capped at 500kB.
  19486. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  19487. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  19488. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  19489. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  19490. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  19491. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  19492. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  19493. Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
  19494. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
  19495. - Fixes on reachability detection:
  19496. - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
  19497. - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
  19498. descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
  19499. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  19500. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  19501. - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
  19502. DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
  19503. - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
  19504. initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
  19505. we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
  19506. and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
  19507. - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
  19508. since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
  19509. server not already connected to them.
  19510. - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
  19511. Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
  19512. bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
  19513. obsolete.)
  19514. - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
  19515. right then.
  19516. - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
  19517. - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
  19518. are in a different state than they actually are.
  19519. - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
  19520. win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
  19521. features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
  19522. libevent log msgs.
  19523. - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
  19524. - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
  19525. - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
  19526. o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
  19527. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  19528. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  19529. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  19530. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  19531. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  19532. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  19533. via addresses like
  19534. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  19535. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  19536. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  19537. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  19538. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  19539. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  19540. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  19541. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  19542. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  19543. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  19544. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  19545. creating actual system users.
  19546. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  19547. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  19548. in 0.1.0.x).
  19549. Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
  19550. o New features:
  19551. - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
  19552. to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
  19553. and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
  19554. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  19555. hidden services better.
  19556. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  19557. config option.
  19558. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  19559. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  19560. - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
  19561. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  19562. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  19563. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  19564. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  19565. - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
  19566. patch by Matt Edman).
  19567. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  19568. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  19569. required exit node for certain sites.
  19570. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  19571. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  19572. your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
  19573. - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
  19574. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  19575. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  19576. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  19577. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  19578. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  19579. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  19580. - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
  19581. parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  19582. addresses/ports.
  19583. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  19584. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  19585. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  19586. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  19587. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  19588. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  19589. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  19590. o Robustness/stability fixes:
  19591. - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
  19592. poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
  19593. cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
  19594. on Windows too.
  19595. - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
  19596. we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
  19597. to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
  19598. threadsafeness.
  19599. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  19600. - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
  19601. and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  19602. appropriate nodes.
  19603. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  19604. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  19605. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  19606. that will want high uptime circuits.
  19607. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  19608. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  19609. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  19610. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  19611. - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
  19612. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  19613. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  19614. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  19615. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  19616. - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
  19617. to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
  19618. circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
  19619. uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  19620. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  19621. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  19622. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  19623. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  19624. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  19625. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  19626. when we try to launch one.
  19627. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
  19628. rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
  19629. - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
  19630. "ShutdownWaitLength".
  19631. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  19632. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  19633. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  19634. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
  19635. and to take errno into account where possible.
  19636. o Bug fixes:
  19637. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
  19638. pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
  19639. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  19640. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  19641. - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
  19642. file more reasonable.
  19643. - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
  19644. into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
  19645. addresses -- it won't.
  19646. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  19647. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  19648. for google.com" problem.
  19649. - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
  19650. so it's not just "unknown platform".
  19651. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
  19652. If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
  19653. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  19654. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  19655. they're malformed.
  19656. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  19657. they could use instead.
  19658. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  19659. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
  19660. means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
  19661. already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  19662. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  19663. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  19664. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  19665. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  19666. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  19667. the same series.
  19668. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  19669. the socks reject.
  19670. o Helpful fixes:
  19671. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  19672. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  19673. it was.
  19674. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  19675. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  19676. private-IP addresses.
  19677. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  19678. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  19679. for now.
  19680. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  19681. smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
  19682. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  19683. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  19684. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  19685. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  19686. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  19687. wrong.
  19688. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  19689. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  19690. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  19691. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  19692. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  19693. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  19694. - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
  19695. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  19696. we're leaking.
  19697. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  19698. addresses.
  19699. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  19700. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  19701. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  19702. whether the server is hibernating.
  19703. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  19704. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  19705. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  19706. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  19707. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  19708. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  19709. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  19710. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  19711. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  19712. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  19713. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  19714. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  19715. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  19716. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  19717. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  19718. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  19719. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  19720. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  19721. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  19722. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  19723. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  19724. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  19725. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  19726. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  19727. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  19728. existing torrc files.
  19729. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  19730. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  19731. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  19732. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  19733. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  19734. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  19735. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  19736. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  19737. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  19738. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  19739. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  19740. file descriptors available.
  19741. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  19742. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  19743. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  19744. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  19745. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  19746. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  19747. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  19748. freak out.
  19749. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  19750. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  19751. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  19752. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  19753. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  19754. logs, etc.
  19755. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  19756. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  19757. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  19758. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  19759. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  19760. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  19761. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  19762. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  19763. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  19764. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  19765. 800kB/s of capacity.
  19766. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  19767. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  19768. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  19769. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  19770. need as much processor time.
  19771. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  19772. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  19773. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  19774. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  19775. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  19776. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  19777. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  19778. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  19779. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  19780. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  19781. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  19782. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  19783. resetting.
  19784. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  19785. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  19786. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  19787. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  19788. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  19789. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  19790. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  19791. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  19792. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  19793. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  19794. to a file.
  19795. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  19796. style address, then we'd crash.
  19797. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  19798. a dirserver is broken.
  19799. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  19800. may work better.
  19801. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  19802. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  19803. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  19804. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  19805. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  19806. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  19807. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  19808. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  19809. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  19810. take any away.
  19811. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  19812. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  19813. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  19814. DataDirectory.
  19815. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  19816. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  19817. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  19818. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  19819. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  19820. values at once couldn't work.
  19821. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  19822. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  19823. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  19824. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  19825. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  19826. they can handle any number of routers.
  19827. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  19828. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  19829. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  19830. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  19831. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  19832. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  19833. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  19834. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  19835. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  19836. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  19837. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  19838. - Make hibernation actually work.
  19839. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  19840. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  19841. don't use the stream status code.
  19842. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  19843. o Cleanups:
  19844. - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
  19845. - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
  19846. o Mistakes:
  19847. - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
  19848. Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
  19849. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
  19850. - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
  19851. - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
  19852. ports we need to build circuits to cover.
  19853. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  19854. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  19855. - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
  19856. - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
  19857. LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
  19858. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19859. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  19860. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  19861. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  19862. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  19863. - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
  19864. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  19865. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  19866. Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
  19867. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
  19868. - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
  19869. we think).
  19870. - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
  19871. - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
  19872. than just chopping them off.
  19873. - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
  19874. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19875. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  19876. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  19877. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  19878. right after sending the begin cell.
  19879. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  19880. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  19881. exit nodes too. Oops.
  19882. o Features:
  19883. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  19884. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  19885. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  19886. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  19887. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  19888. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  19889. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  19890. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  19891. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  19892. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  19893. Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
  19894. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19895. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  19896. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  19897. forever.
  19898. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  19899. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
  19900. - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
  19901. but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
  19902. finding it.
  19903. - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
  19904. instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
  19905. even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
  19906. Clip rather than rejecting.
  19907. - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
  19908. authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
  19909. o Features:
  19910. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  19911. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  19912. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  19913. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  19914. by Geoff Goodell.
  19915. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  19916. Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
  19917. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19918. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  19919. win32 socket errors better.
  19920. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
  19921. - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
  19922. Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
  19923. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19924. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  19925. so we don't see those messages days later.
  19926. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
  19927. - Make tor-resolve work again.
  19928. - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
  19929. - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
  19930. Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
  19931. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
  19932. - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
  19933. - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
  19934. and seconds.
  19935. - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
  19936. they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
  19937. long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
  19938. Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
  19939. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19940. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  19941. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  19942. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  19943. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  19944. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  19945. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  19946. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  19947. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
  19948. - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
  19949. - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
  19950. 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
  19951. them too.)
  19952. - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
  19953. - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
  19954. o Features:
  19955. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  19956. hibernation properties by
  19957. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  19958. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  19959. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  19960. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  19961. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  19962. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  19963. get back to normal.)
  19964. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  19965. pick it anyway.
  19966. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  19967. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  19968. to fill the last cell completely.
  19969. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  19970. Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
  19971. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  19972. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  19973. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  19974. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  19975. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  19976. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  19977. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  19978. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  19979. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  19980. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  19981. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
  19982. - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
  19983. - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
  19984. 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
  19985. - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
  19986. - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
  19987. it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
  19988. - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
  19989. down a lot.
  19990. - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
  19991. - Make kill -USR1 work again.
  19992. - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
  19993. of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
  19994. - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
  19995. have it on start-up.
  19996. o Features:
  19997. - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
  19998. running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
  19999. - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
  20000. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  20001. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  20002. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  20003. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  20004. configuration to torrc.
  20005. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  20006. - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
  20007. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  20008. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  20009. - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
  20010. we catch.
  20011. - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
  20012. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  20013. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  20014. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  20015. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  20016. log more informatively.
  20017. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  20018. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  20019. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  20020. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  20021. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  20022. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  20023. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  20024. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  20025. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  20026. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  20027. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  20028. Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
  20029. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
  20030. - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
  20031. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  20032. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  20033. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  20034. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  20035. bug).
  20036. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  20037. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  20038. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  20039. they ran out of file descriptors.
  20040. - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
  20041. enough version of the resolve code to work right.
  20042. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  20043. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  20044. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  20045. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  20046. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  20047. recent enough.
  20048. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  20049. o Major Features:
  20050. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
  20051. set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
  20052. consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
  20053. month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
  20054. at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
  20055. hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
  20056. specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
  20057. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  20058. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  20059. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  20060. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  20061. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  20062. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  20063. with the control port.
  20064. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  20065. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  20066. - New log format in config:
  20067. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  20068. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  20069. o Minor Features:
  20070. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  20071. from their dirserver.
  20072. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  20073. and then exit.
  20074. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  20075. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  20076. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  20077. them act more like real nodes.
  20078. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  20079. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  20080. is broken.
  20081. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  20082. nickname to its identity key.
  20083. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  20084. not on the command line.
  20085. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  20086. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  20087. 1024) file descriptors.
  20088. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  20089. - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  20090. hey.)
  20091. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  20092. - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
  20093. - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
  20094. Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
  20095. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
  20096. - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
  20097. exit policy, not reject *:*.
  20098. - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
  20099. descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
  20100. an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
  20101. - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
  20102. configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
  20103. - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
  20104. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  20105. o Features:
  20106. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  20107. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  20108. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  20109. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  20110. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  20111. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  20112. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  20113. Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
  20114. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  20115. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  20116. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  20117. the ones we find in directories.)
  20118. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  20119. bit platforms.
  20120. - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
  20121. as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
  20122. the dirserver.
  20123. - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
  20124. close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
  20125. would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
  20126. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
  20127. - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
  20128. provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
  20129. - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
  20130. corruption.
  20131. - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
  20132. - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
  20133. any more exit policy lines.
  20134. o Features:
  20135. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  20136. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  20137. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  20138. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  20139. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  20140. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  20141. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  20142. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  20143. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  20144. will be able to get a directory.
  20145. - Http proxy support
  20146. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  20147. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  20148. be routed through this host.
  20149. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  20150. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  20151. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  20152. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  20153. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  20154. o Bugfixes:
  20155. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  20156. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  20157. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  20158. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  20159. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  20160. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  20161. intermittent connections.
  20162. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  20163. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  20164. reattaches.
  20165. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  20166. in reporting stats locally.
  20167. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  20168. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  20169. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  20170. Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
  20171. o Bugfixes:
  20172. - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
  20173. - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
  20174. Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
  20175. o Bugfixes:
  20176. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  20177. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  20178. if you don't want it open.
  20179. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  20180. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
  20181. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  20182. intermittent connections.
  20183. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  20184. happier.
  20185. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  20186. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  20187. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  20188. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  20189. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  20190. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  20191. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  20192. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  20193. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  20194. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  20195. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  20196. before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  20197. assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  20198. the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
  20199. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  20200. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  20201. o Features:
  20202. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  20203. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  20204. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  20205. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  20206. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  20207. options.
  20208. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  20209. appropriate.
  20210. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  20211. We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  20212. specified in HTTP 1.0.
  20213. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  20214. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  20215. than once per minute.
  20216. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  20217. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  20218. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  20219. o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  20220. Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
  20221. o Make it compile on cygwin again.
  20222. o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  20223. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  20224. Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
  20225. o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
  20226. - Bugfixes:
  20227. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  20228. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  20229. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
  20230. should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
  20231. until we get our next directory.
  20232. - Features:
  20233. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  20234. - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  20235. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
  20236. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  20237. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  20238. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  20239. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  20240. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  20241. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  20242. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  20243. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  20244. "GET /".
  20245. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  20246. an exitnode.
  20247. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  20248. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  20249. or exit nodes.
  20250. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  20251. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  20252. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  20253. o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
  20254. - Bugfixes:
  20255. - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
  20256. - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
  20257. - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
  20258. - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
  20259. routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
  20260. - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
  20261. we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
  20262. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  20263. directory.
  20264. - Features:
  20265. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  20266. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  20267. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  20268. - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
  20269. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  20270. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  20271. ask them to resolve the host "".
  20272. Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
  20273. o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
  20274. - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
  20275. people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
  20276. another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
  20277. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  20278. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  20279. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  20280. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  20281. clients don't use this yet.)
  20282. - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
  20283. at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
  20284. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  20285. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  20286. for pointing out this bug.)
  20287. - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
  20288. fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
  20289. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  20290. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  20291. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  20292. o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
  20293. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  20294. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  20295. - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
  20296. - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
  20297. just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
  20298. - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
  20299. don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
  20300. - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
  20301. wolf unpredictably.
  20302. - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
  20303. that's still handshaking.
  20304. - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
  20305. you'll choose it for your path.
  20306. - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
  20307. end relay cell, etc.
  20308. - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
  20309. - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
  20310. directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
  20311. Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
  20312. o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
  20313. - Security fixes:
  20314. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  20315. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  20316. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  20317. list to decide who's running or verified.
  20318. - Bugfixes and features:
  20319. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  20320. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  20321. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  20322. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  20323. - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
  20324. which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
  20325. o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
  20326. - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
  20327. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  20328. know you might want to get it verified.
  20329. - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
  20330. Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
  20331. o Bugfixes:
  20332. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  20333. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  20334. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  20335. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  20336. o Protocol changes:
  20337. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  20338. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  20339. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  20340. hadn't heard of before.
  20341. o Features:
  20342. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  20343. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  20344. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  20345. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  20346. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  20347. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  20348. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  20349. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  20350. - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
  20351. But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
  20352. - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
  20353. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  20354. - Directory caching.
  20355. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  20356. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  20357. directory they've pulled down.
  20358. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  20359. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  20360. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  20361. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  20362. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  20363. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  20364. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  20365. by hash-of-key).
  20366. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  20367. This isn't used yet.
  20368. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  20369. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  20370. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  20371. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  20372. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  20373. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  20374. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  20375. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  20376. - File and name management:
  20377. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  20378. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  20379. as datadir.
  20380. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  20381. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  20382. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  20383. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  20384. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  20385. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  20386. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  20387. to use.
  20388. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  20389. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  20390. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  20391. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  20392. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  20393. locally.
  20394. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  20395. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  20396. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  20397. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  20398. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  20399. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  20400. - New docs in the tarball:
  20401. - tor-doc.html.
  20402. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  20403. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  20404. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  20405. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  20406. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  20407. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  20408. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  20409. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  20410. o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
  20411. Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
  20412. o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
  20413. - Make it build on Win32 again.
  20414. o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
  20415. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  20416. settings too.
  20417. Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
  20418. o Bugfixes:
  20419. - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
  20420. one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
  20421. - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
  20422. problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
  20423. the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
  20424. list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
  20425. - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
  20426. resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
  20427. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  20428. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  20429. easily.
  20430. o Features:
  20431. - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
  20432. Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
  20433. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  20434. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  20435. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  20436. them.
  20437. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  20438. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  20439. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  20440. exit nodes.
  20441. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  20442. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  20443. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  20444. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  20445. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  20446. o Fixes for security bugs:
  20447. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  20448. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  20449. a trusted dirserver.
  20450. o Other bugfixes:
  20451. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  20452. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  20453. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  20454. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  20455. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  20456. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  20457. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  20458. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  20459. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  20460. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  20461. have failed.
  20462. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  20463. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  20464. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  20465. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  20466. o Features:
  20467. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  20468. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  20469. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  20470. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  20471. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  20472. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  20473. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  20474. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  20475. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  20476. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  20477. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  20478. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  20479. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  20480. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  20481. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  20482. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  20483. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  20484. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  20485. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  20486. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  20487. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  20488. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  20489. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  20490. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  20491. server.
  20492. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  20493. [version bump only]
  20494. Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
  20495. o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
  20496. o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
  20497. to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
  20498. reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
  20499. then dies.
  20500. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  20501. Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
  20502. o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
  20503. circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
  20504. when they had a stream attached. oops.)
  20505. o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  20506. o Better debugging for tls errors
  20507. o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  20508. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  20509. o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  20510. o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  20511. o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  20512. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  20513. o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  20514. o win32's close can't close a socket.
  20515. Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
  20516. o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  20517. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  20518. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  20519. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  20520. it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
  20521. o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  20522. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  20523. 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
  20524. o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  20525. just close the circ.
  20526. o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
  20527. o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
  20528. (this was quite rare).
  20529. Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
  20530. o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  20531. o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  20532. if you decrypted them correctly.
  20533. o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  20534. o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  20535. o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  20536. Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
  20537. o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
  20538. - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
  20539. - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
  20540. a second one and it works.
  20541. - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
  20542. it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
  20543. alice would just have to wait to time out.
  20544. - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
  20545. points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
  20546. again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
  20547. sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
  20548. - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
  20549. as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
  20550. socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
  20551. now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
  20552. i'd still like to find the bug though.
  20553. - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
  20554. count it as a nack
  20555. - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
  20556. ones. oops.
  20557. Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
  20558. o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
  20559. - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
  20560. circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
  20561. he retries a couple of times
  20562. - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
  20563. (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
  20564. - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
  20565. too long (they were sticking around forever).
  20566. - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
  20567. a strict glibc.
  20568. Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
  20569. o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
  20570. - make hup work again
  20571. - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
  20572. - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
  20573. handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
  20574. - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
  20575. the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
  20576. - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
  20577. again
  20578. - bob publishes intro points more correctly
  20579. o changes from 0.0.5:
  20580. - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
  20581. of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  20582. - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  20583. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
  20584. (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
  20585. is flaky).
  20586. - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  20587. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  20588. in-memory directories too
  20589. Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
  20590. o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
  20591. Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
  20592. o Features:
  20593. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  20594. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  20595. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  20596. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  20597. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  20598. [version bump only]
  20599. Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
  20600. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  20601. torrc. (Woo!)
  20602. o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
  20603. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  20604. but that aren't warnings
  20605. Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
  20606. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  20607. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  20608. the dns farm to do it.
  20609. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  20610. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  20611. directory.
  20612. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  20613. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  20614. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  20615. Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
  20616. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  20617. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  20618. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  20619. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  20620. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  20621. expect it to have a nickname.
  20622. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  20623. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  20624. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  20625. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  20626. we would crash.
  20627. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  20628. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  20629. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  20630. - include missing header fcntl.h
  20631. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  20632. - deal with hardware word alignment
  20633. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  20634. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  20635. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  20636. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  20637. by kill -USR1 currently.
  20638. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  20639. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  20640. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  20641. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  20642. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  20643. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  20644. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  20645. o Bugfixes:
  20646. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  20647. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  20648. - And fix a few endian issues.
  20649. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  20650. o New features:
  20651. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  20652. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  20653. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  20654. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  20655. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  20656. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  20657. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  20658. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  20659. about as a server.
  20660. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  20661. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  20662. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  20663. o Bugfixes:
  20664. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  20665. simply not true.
  20666. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  20667. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  20668. side isn't reading right then.
  20669. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  20670. RecommendedVersions
  20671. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  20672. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  20673. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  20674. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  20675. o New features:
  20676. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  20677. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  20678. e.g. poblano.
  20679. o Bugfixes:
  20680. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  20681. crashed.
  20682. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  20683. o Bugfixes:
  20684. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  20685. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  20686. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  20687. connection is finished.
  20688. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  20689. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  20690. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  20691. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  20692. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  20693. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  20694. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  20695. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  20696. rather than warn and continue.
  20697. - Make --version work
  20698. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  20699. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  20700. o New features:
  20701. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  20702. knows it's working.
  20703. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  20704. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  20705. clearly thwarted.)
  20706. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  20707. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  20708. so you can collect coredumps there.
  20709. o Bugfixes:
  20710. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  20711. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  20712. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  20713. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  20714. dns cache actually gets populated.
  20715. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  20716. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  20717. end cell down it first.
  20718. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  20719. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  20720. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  20721. o New features:
  20722. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  20723. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  20724. errors happen.
  20725. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  20726. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  20727. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  20728. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  20729. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  20730. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  20731. it.
  20732. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  20733. o Bugfixes:
  20734. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  20735. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  20736. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  20737. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  20738. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  20739. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  20740. dirservers.
  20741. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  20742. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  20743. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  20744. o New features:
  20745. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  20746. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  20747. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  20748. tor. It even has a man page.
  20749. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  20750. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  20751. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  20752. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  20753. his/her torrc.
  20754. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  20755. o Bugfixes:
  20756. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  20757. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  20758. o New features:
  20759. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  20760. it, apt-getters. :)
  20761. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  20762. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  20763. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  20764. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  20765. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  20766. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  20767. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  20768. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  20769. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  20770. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  20771. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  20772. to new ones.
  20773. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  20774. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  20775. o Bugfixes:
  20776. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  20777. after a while.
  20778. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  20779. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  20780. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  20781. o Bugfixes:
  20782. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  20783. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  20784. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  20785. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  20786. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  20787. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  20788. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  20789. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  20790. logfile so you know it's working.
  20791. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  20792. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  20793. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  20794. o Bugfixes:
  20795. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  20796. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  20797. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  20798. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  20799. o Bugfixes:
  20800. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  20801. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  20802. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  20803. o Features:
  20804. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  20805. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  20806. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  20807. with MorphMix).
  20808. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  20809. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  20810. relay cells.
  20811. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  20812. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  20813. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  20814. this hop.
  20815. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  20816. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  20817. been made so far.
  20818. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  20819. o Bugfixes:
  20820. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  20821. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  20822. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  20823. o Features:
  20824. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  20825. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  20826. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  20827. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  20828. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  20829. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  20830. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  20831. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  20832. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  20833. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  20834. exit nodes.
  20835. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  20836. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  20837. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  20838. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  20839. really screw things up.
  20840. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  20841. working.
  20842. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  20843. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  20844. established.
  20845. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  20846. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  20847. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  20848. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  20849. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  20850. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  20851. o Documentation:
  20852. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  20853. o Configuration:
  20854. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  20855. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  20856. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  20857. ORPort>0.
  20858. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  20859. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  20860. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  20861. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  20862. - to get ownership/permissions right
  20863. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  20864. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  20865. pull down a directory again
  20866. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  20867. causing server crashes
  20868. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  20869. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  20870. - exit if bind() fails
  20871. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  20872. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  20873. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  20874. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  20875. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  20876. o Documentation:
  20877. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  20878. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  20879. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  20880. are down.
  20881. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  20882. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  20883. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  20884. exists, rather than failing
  20885. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  20886. which AP connections are standing by
  20887. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  20888. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  20889. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  20890. circuit.
  20891. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  20892. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  20893. o Configuration:
  20894. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  20895. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  20896. where to bind
  20897. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  20898. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  20899. - Reloads config on HUP
  20900. - Usage info on -h or --help
  20901. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  20902. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  20903. o General stability:
  20904. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  20905. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  20906. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  20907. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  20908. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  20909. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  20910. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  20911. o Buffers:
  20912. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  20913. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  20914. o Autoconf improvements:
  20915. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  20916. - Make install now works
  20917. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  20918. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  20919. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  20920. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  20921. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  20922. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  20923. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup