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