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  1. Changes in version 0.1.2.5-xxxx - 200?-??-??
  2. o Major features:
  3. - Enable "BEGIN_DIR" cells: prefer to connect to the directory
  4. server via TLS so we do encrypted directory requests rather than
  5. plaintext. On by default; disable via the TunnelDirConns config
  6. option if you like.
  7. - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
  8. capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
  9. than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
  10. - Authorities now include server versions in networkstatus. This adds
  11. about 2% to the side of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
  12. clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
  13. The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
  14. protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
  15. - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the
  16. same directory as tor.exe (Bug #356) and default to using the torrc
  17. located in the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service.
  18. Patch from Matt Edman.
  19. - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
  20. would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used to
  21. send them.
  22. o Minor features:
  23. - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
  24. the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
  25. for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  26. - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
  27. disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
  28. a timely fashion.
  29. - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: add dns server and ipv6
  30. support.
  31. - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
  32. - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
  33. accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
  34. options files.
  35. - Reject *:563 (NTTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
  36. NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
  37. - Authorities do not recommend exits as guards if this would shift
  38. excess load to the exit nodes.
  39. - Avoid some inadvertent info leaks by making clients reject hostnames
  40. with invalid characters. Add an option "AllowNonRFC953Hostnames"
  41. to disable this behavior, in case somebody is running a private
  42. network with hosts called @, !, and #.
  43. - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
  44. addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
  45. - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
  46. documentation.
  47. - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least 0.1.0.x:
  48. AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and SysLog. Use
  49. AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB; use Log to set log options.
  50. - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport option so clients can
  51. open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without having downloaded
  52. their descriptors yet.
  53. - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
  54. dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour
  55. has gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us
  56. a 503.
  57. - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
  58. AvoidDiskWrites is set.
  59. - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
  60. "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
  61. secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
  62. - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be preceded by
  63. "opt".
  64. - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
  65. count the failure against the total number of failures allowed for the
  66. thing we're trying to download.
  67. - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory connections;
  68. don't report X-Your-Address-Is is when it's an internal address; and
  69. never believe reported remote addresses when they're internal.
  70. - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
  71. - Add support to tor-resolve for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
  72. - We now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
  73. wildcarded addresses, and change our exit policy to reject *:* if
  74. it's happening. (Bug #364)
  75. - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
  76. our tests for DNS hijacking.
  77. - Block an obscure DoS attack from directory caches.
  78. o Security bugfixes:
  79. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  80. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  81. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  82. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  83. is set.
  84. - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
  85. 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
  86. - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
  87. keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
  88. we never stay up for a week ourselves.
  89. o Major bugfixes:
  90. - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
  91. timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
  92. give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
  93. 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
  94. after that. (May fix bug 326.)
  95. - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
  96. schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
  97. seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
  98. a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
  99. o Minor bugfixes:
  100. - Fix a bug when a PF socket is first used. (Patch from Fabian Keil.)
  101. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  102. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  103. unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  104. - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file that
  105. would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading (reported
  106. by John Kimble).
  107. - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
  108. to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
  109. it by name.
  110. - Routers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
  111. even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
  112. family lists efficiently.
  113. - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
  114. nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
  115. user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
  116. bug 363.)
  117. - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
  118. - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
  119. changed.
  120. - Cleaned-up code and documentation in NT services. Patch from Matt
  121. Edman.
  122. - Removed the supposedly misleading error message mentioned in Bug #294.
  123. Patch from Matt Edman.
  124. - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
  125. our nameservers have failed. (Bug #326.)
  126. - When we only have one nameserver, raise the threshold for deciding that
  127. the nameserver is dead. (Also bug #326)
  128. o Controller features:
  129. - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
  130. - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
  131. actual keys.
  132. - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
  133. - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
  134. entry guard status as it changes.
  135. o Controller bugfixes:
  136. - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. (Bug
  137. reported by Mike Perry.)
  138. - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
  139. when the last second's write or read exceeds the alloted bandwidth.
  140. - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
  141. controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
  142. Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
  143. o Major features:
  144. - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
  145. 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
  146. SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
  147. o Minor features:
  148. - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
  149. immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
  150. successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
  151. watching for STREAM events.
  152. - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
  153. hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
  154. - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
  155. operations, for profiling.
  156. o Major bugfixes:
  157. - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
  158. approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
  159. an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
  160. - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
  161. the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
  162. until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
  163. Zajcev Evgeny.)
  164. - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
  165. startup.
  166. o Minor bugfixes:
  167. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  168. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  169. - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
  170. without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
  171. restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
  172. per day.
  173. - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
  174. correctly in the Windows installer.
  175. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  176. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  177. - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
  178. MIPSpro C compiler.
  179. - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
  180. when we're running as a client.
  181. Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
  182. o Minor features:
  183. - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
  184. discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
  185. recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
  186. the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
  187. routers for even longer.
  188. - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
  189. don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
  190. authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
  191. - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
  192. headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
  193. caching HTTP proxies.
  194. - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
  195. address.
  196. o Minor features, controller:
  197. - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
  198. field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
  199. event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
  200. a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
  201. Mike Perry)
  202. - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
  203. controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
  204. - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
  205. working much like those for circuit events.
  206. - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
  207. about the current status of a router.
  208. - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
  209. a router's status has changed.
  210. - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
  211. can tell which events and features are supported.
  212. - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
  213. client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
  214. o Security bugfixes:
  215. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  216. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  217. o Minor bugfixes:
  218. - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
  219. uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
  220. - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
  221. service circuits (reported by mwenge).
  222. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  223. - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
  224. about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
  225. long nicknames where appropriate.
  226. - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
  227. build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
  228. - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
  229. chews through many circuits before giving up.
  230. - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
  231. esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
  232. - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
  233. stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
  234. - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
  235. make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
  236. not requested.
  237. - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
  238. printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
  239. - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
  240. for sure!)
  241. - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
  242. - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
  243. corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
  244. with mmap). This bug was harmless.
  245. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
  246. to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
  247. make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
  248. unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
  249. - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
  250. (reported by fookoowa).
  251. - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
  252. and reported by some Centos users.
  253. - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
  254. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
  255. - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
  256. values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
  257. - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
  258. Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
  259. before we check for libevent.
  260. Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
  261. o Major features:
  262. - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
  263. and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
  264. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  265. records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  266. IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
  267. now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
  268. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
  269. lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
  270. - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
  271. connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
  272. to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
  273. - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
  274. total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
  275. the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
  276. - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
  277. DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
  278. redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
  279. DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
  280. RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
  281. lets you turn it off.
  282. - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
  283. that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
  284. a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
  285. us into the directory more quickly.
  286. o New/improved config options:
  287. - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
  288. choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
  289. - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
  290. servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
  291. is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
  292. all the machines on the same subnet.
  293. - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
  294. directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
  295. if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
  296. the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
  297. - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
  298. for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
  299. as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
  300. authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
  301. to continue being hidden service authorities too.
  302. - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
  303. o Minor features, controller:
  304. - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
  305. identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
  306. - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
  307. of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
  308. for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
  309. and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
  310. for more information.
  311. - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
  312. best guess to the user.
  313. - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
  314. descriptor has changed.
  315. - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
  316. o Minor features, other:
  317. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
  318. requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
  319. useful to the network.
  320. - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
  321. - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
  322. a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
  323. authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
  324. clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
  325. - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
  326. For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
  327. its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
  328. - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
  329. to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
  330. - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
  331. not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
  332. - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
  333. OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
  334. because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
  335. o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
  336. - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
  337. in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
  338. could return an unnamed server instead.
  339. - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
  340. to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
  341. and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
  342. - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
  343. many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
  344. a more attractive target for compromise.)
  345. - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
  346. able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
  347. only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
  348. o Major bugfixes, other:
  349. - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
  350. - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
  351. an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  352. Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
  353. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  354. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  355. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
  356. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  357. its circuits on demand.
  358. - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
  359. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  360. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  361. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  362. o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
  363. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  364. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  365. we don't recognize.
  366. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  367. the first time.
  368. - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
  369. from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
  370. printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  371. - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
  372. "extendcircuit" request.
  373. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  374. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  375. - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
  376. is detached.
  377. - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
  378. - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
  379. instead of "X resolved to X".
  380. - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
  381. - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
  382. 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
  383. authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
  384. us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
  385. - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
  386. 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
  387. - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
  388. ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
  389. an address.
  390. - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
  391. ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
  392. then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
  393. - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
  394. result more than once.
  395. - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
  396. non-versioning dirservers.
  397. - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
  398. via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
  399. o Minor bugfixes, performance:
  400. - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
  401. - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
  402. algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  403. - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  404. malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  405. - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
  406. a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
  407. - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
  408. o Packaging, features:
  409. - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
  410. now universal binaries.
  411. - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
  412. to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
  413. - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
  414. o Packaging, bugfixes:
  415. - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
  416. - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
  417. - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
  418. building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
  419. Debian woody.
  420. - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
  421. - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
  422. - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
  423. o Documentation
  424. - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
  425. ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
  426. - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
  427. multiple times.
  428. Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
  429. o Major features:
  430. - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
  431. build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
  432. --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
  433. - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
  434. IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
  435. kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
  436. error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
  437. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  438. application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
  439. 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  440. that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  441. - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
  442. this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
  443. into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
  444. implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
  445. without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
  446. - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
  447. descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
  448. as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
  449. files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
  450. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  451. /16 network when constructing a circuit.
  452. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  453. a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  454. o Minor features:
  455. - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  456. split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  457. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  458. also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  459. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  460. or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  461. it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  462. win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  463. recommendation system saner.)
  464. - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
  465. to Phobos).
  466. - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  467. don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  468. - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
  469. - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
  470. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  471. such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  472. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  473. haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
  474. causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  475. you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
  476. - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  477. descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  478. your ORPort is set.
  479. - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
  480. no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  481. authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  482. long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  483. connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  484. more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  485. 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  486. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  487. to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  488. - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
  489. bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
  490. separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
  491. it is.
  492. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  493. to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  494. we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  495. other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  496. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  497. and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  498. o Major bugfixes:
  499. - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  500. so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  501. - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  502. if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  503. our DirPort now, etc.
  504. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  505. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  506. move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  507. Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  508. the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  509. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  510. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  511. voodoo.
  512. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  513. whether the config options are bad or good.
  514. - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
  515. address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
  516. pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
  517. in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
  518. eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
  519. - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  520. its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  521. back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  522. o Minor bugfixes:
  523. - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
  524. - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  525. - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  526. when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  527. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  528. useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  529. - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
  530. before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
  531. - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
  532. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  533. - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
  534. server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
  535. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  536. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  537. as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  538. of it), is not therefore "up".
  539. - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  540. actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  541. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  542. throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  543. handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  544. goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  545. Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
  546. o Security bugfixes:
  547. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  548. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  549. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  550. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  551. is set.
  552. o Minor bugfixes:
  553. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  554. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  555. unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  556. Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
  557. o Major bugfixes:
  558. - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
  559. an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
  560. answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  561. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
  562. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  563. its circuits on demand.
  564. - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
  565. require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
  566. we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
  567. connections more stable on average.
  568. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  569. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  570. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  571. o Security bugfixes:
  572. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  573. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  574. o Minor bugfixes:
  575. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  576. the first time.
  577. - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
  578. certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
  579. handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  580. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  581. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  582. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  583. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  584. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  585. Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
  586. o Major bugfixes:
  587. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  588. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  589. - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
  590. whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
  591. do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
  592. This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
  593. - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
  594. it can't resolve its hostname.
  595. - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
  596. and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  597. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  598. o Minor bugfixes:
  599. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  600. - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
  601. "extendcircuit" request.
  602. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  603. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  604. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  605. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  606. voodoo.
  607. - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
  608. uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
  609. only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
  610. tolower().
  611. - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
  612. methods: these are known to be buggy.
  613. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  614. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  615. we don't recognize.
  616. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  617. o Major bugfixes:
  618. - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  619. due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  620. bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  621. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  622. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  623. then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  624. circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  625. changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  626. test reachability, so you won't publish.
  627. o Minor bugfixes:
  628. - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  629. and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  630. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  631. a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  632. a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  633. later than now.
  634. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  635. own server descriptor yet.
  636. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  637. o Major bugfixes:
  638. - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  639. reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  640. servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  641. make sure to test via one of these.
  642. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  643. descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  644. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  645. descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  646. servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  647. o Minor bugfixes:
  648. - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  649. "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  650. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  651. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  652. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  653. - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  654. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  655. directory authority.
  656. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  657. while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  658. exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  659. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  660. o Other fixes:
  661. - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  662. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  663. first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  664. right after that.
  665. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  666. and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  667. again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  668. current guards when picking a new guard.
  669. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  670. is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  671. when we had more than one pending.
  672. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  673. Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  674. a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  675. - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  676. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  677. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  678. mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  679. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  680. middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  681. debug the reachability problems better.
  682. o Log / documentation fixes:
  683. - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  684. log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  685. about protocol violations by others.
  686. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  687. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  688. about what happened to our old torrc.
  689. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  690. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
  691. - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
  692. logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  693. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  694. and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
  695. Palfrader).
  696. - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  697. a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  698. "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
  699. - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  700. out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  701. - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  702. your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
  703. HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  704. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
  705. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  706. to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  707. on malicious huge inputs.
  708. o Security fixes, major:
  709. - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  710. non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
  711. sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
  712. misreading their logs.
  713. - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
  714. nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  715. when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  716. become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  717. dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  718. config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  719. want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  720. Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
  721. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  722. destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  723. which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  724. that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  725. authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  726. use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  727. if you can.
  728. - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
  729. . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  730. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  731. firewall options forbid.
  732. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  733. firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  734. can only proxy to certain destinations.
  735. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  736. - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  737. out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  738. through privoxy.
  739. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  740. keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  741. each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  742. periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  743. - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  744. node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  745. already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
  746. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  747. are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
  748. to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
  749. preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
  750. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  751. was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
  752. o Security fixes, minor:
  753. - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
  754. Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  755. easily.
  756. - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
  757. mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
  758. is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  759. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  760. if we've not heard of a server.
  761. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  762. OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  763. startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  764. - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
  765. the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  766. humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  767. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  768. don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
  769. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  770. circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  771. introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  772. useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  773. aids some statistical attacks.
  774. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  775. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  776. have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  777. exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  778. - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  779. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  780. service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  781. back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  782. that anyway.
  783. o Packaging improvements:
  784. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
  785. search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  786. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
  787. there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  788. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  789. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
  790. "-Wall -g -O2".
  791. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  792. run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  793. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  794. the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  795. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  796. Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  797. target arch.
  798. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  799. if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  800. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  801. connections.
  802. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  803. tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  804. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
  805. They are useless now.
  806. - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
  807. easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
  808. is reachable by you.
  809. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  810. Thoenen.
  811. o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
  812. - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
  813. - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
  814. digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
  815. - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
  816. download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
  817. fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  818. - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
  819. - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
  820. download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
  821. download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
  822. and isolating attacks better.
  823. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  824. hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  825. - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
  826. haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  827. tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  828. minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  829. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  830. not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  831. go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  832. to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
  833. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  834. are known.
  835. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  836. can answer v2 directory requests too.
  837. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  838. docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
  839. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  840. mirrors still cache and serve it).
  841. - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
  842. before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  843. - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
  844. for clients and for servers.
  845. - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  846. - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  847. without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  848. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  849. support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  850. to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  851. - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
  852. reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
  853. - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
  854. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  855. authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  856. o Other directory improvements:
  857. - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
  858. fifth authoritative directory servers.
  859. - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
  860. a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  861. when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
  862. to hang up on them.
  863. - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
  864. of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
  865. be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  866. it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  867. - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
  868. entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
  869. every 20 minutes.
  870. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  871. the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  872. attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  873. to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  874. connections more reliable.
  875. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  876. like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  877. top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  878. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  879. from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  880. we fail to connect).
  881. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  882. o Controller protocol improvements:
  883. - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  884. than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
  885. in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
  886. applications without caring how our protocol works.
  887. - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  888. entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  889. - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  890. many bytes we've used in this time period.
  891. - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
  892. AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  893. a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  894. entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  895. - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
  896. expose guard nodes, config options/names.
  897. - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
  898. - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
  899. stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
  900. don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
  901. or "signal reload".
  902. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  903. we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  904. option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  905. - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
  906. controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
  907. a router in its role as directory authority.
  908. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  909. latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  910. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  911. it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  912. .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  913. that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  914. - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
  915. the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  916. changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  917. worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  918. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  919. for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
  920. controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
  921. a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
  922. let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
  923. - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
  924. directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
  925. dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
  926. is enabled.
  927. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  928. that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  929. "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
  930. - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  931. message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
  932. just tell them to go read their logs.
  933. o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
  934. - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
  935. chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  936. a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  937. try to be a bit more fair.
  938. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  939. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  940. and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
  941. and we're using a default DirPort.
  942. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  943. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  944. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  945. build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  946. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  947. services faster on the service end.
  948. - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
  949. remove them.
  950. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  951. warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  952. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  953. server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  954. line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  955. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  956. of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
  957. bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
  958. abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
  959. in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  960. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  961. truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  962. descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  963. purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  964. - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  965. 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  966. translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  967. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  968. of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  969. - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  970. Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  971. - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
  972. might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
  973. - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  974. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  975. o Other bugfixes and improvements:
  976. - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
  977. remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
  978. lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
  979. so we can be backward-compatible.
  980. - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
  981. resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
  982. if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
  983. themselves as localhost can guess their address.
  984. - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  985. it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  986. This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
  987. initial descriptor forever.
  988. - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  989. hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  990. the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  991. the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  992. rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  993. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  994. reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  995. has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  996. servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  997. high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  998. suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  999. - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  1000. circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  1001. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  1002. connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  1003. space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  1004. feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  1005. been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  1006. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  1007. socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
  1008. leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
  1009. - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
  1010. - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  1011. closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  1012. ports that have changed.
  1013. - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
  1014. requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
  1015. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  1016. broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  1017. connections once a week.
  1018. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  1019. would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  1020. servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  1021. - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  1022. string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  1023. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  1024. get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  1025. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  1026. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  1027. able to discover them.
  1028. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
  1029. want to make it an NT service.
  1030. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  1031. running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  1032. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
  1033. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  1034. memory leaks better.
  1035. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  1036. use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  1037. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
  1038. statistics are now uint64_t's.
  1039. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  1040. log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  1041. Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  1042. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  1043. our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  1044. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  1045. so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  1046. default ulimit -n is 1024.
  1047. - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  1048. and its existence is confusing some users.
  1049. o Config option fixes:
  1050. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
  1051. to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  1052. addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  1053. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
  1054. - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
  1055. that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
  1056. for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
  1057. - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  1058. since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  1059. or port.
  1060. - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  1061. we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  1062. This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  1063. November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
  1064. - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  1065. torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  1066. it would silently ignore the 6668.
  1067. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
  1068. e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  1069. silently resetting it to its default.
  1070. - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  1071. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
  1072. will be more likely to learn that it exists.
  1073. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  1074. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  1075. config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  1076. that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  1077. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  1078. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  1079. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  1080. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  1081. - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
  1082. Address config option.
  1083. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  1084. reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  1085. o Config option features:
  1086. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  1087. do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  1088. already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  1089. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  1090. dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  1091. makes sense.
  1092. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  1093. and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  1094. info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  1095. PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  1096. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  1097. option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  1098. Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  1099. - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
  1100. accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
  1101. smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
  1102. in at least some cases.)
  1103. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
  1104. as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  1105. revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  1106. - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
  1107. with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
  1108. by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
  1109. nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
  1110. currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
  1111. even if we know they're jerks.
  1112. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
  1113. applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  1114. socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  1115. with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  1116. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  1117. you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  1118. every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  1119. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  1120. because older Tors do not understand it.
  1121. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  1122. moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
  1123. - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  1124. get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  1125. around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  1126. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  1127. for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  1128. to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  1129. - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  1130. unattached before we fail it?
  1131. - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  1132. at least this many seconds ago.
  1133. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  1134. at least this many seconds ago.
  1135. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  1136. using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  1137. o Improved and clearer log messages:
  1138. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  1139. them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  1140. lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  1141. by default.
  1142. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  1143. of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  1144. log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  1145. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  1146. have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  1147. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
  1148. move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  1149. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  1150. temporarily unreachable.
  1151. - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  1152. Windows-style errno back.
  1153. - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  1154. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  1155. culling them.
  1156. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  1157. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  1158. even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
  1159. exactly for this case.
  1160. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  1161. warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
  1162. don't warn twice about the same name.
  1163. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  1164. unreachability.
  1165. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  1166. it was self-testing that told us so.
  1167. - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  1168. as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  1169. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  1170. the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  1171. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  1172. will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  1173. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  1174. log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  1175. - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  1176. circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
  1177. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  1178. established a circuit.
  1179. - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  1180. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
  1181. lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  1182. and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  1183. since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  1184. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  1185. rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  1186. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  1187. "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  1188. - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  1189. line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  1190. - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
  1191. descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
  1192. a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  1193. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  1194. a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  1195. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  1196. server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  1197. we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  1198. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  1199. as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  1200. testing for reachability.
  1201. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  1202. more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  1203. to the torrc.
  1204. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
  1205. Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  1206. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1207. - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  1208. sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  1209. o Other important bugfixes:
  1210. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  1211. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  1212. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  1213. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  1214. o Backported features:
  1215. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  1216. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  1217. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  1218. without getting overloaded.
  1219. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  1220. once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  1221. 503's whenever they feel busy.
  1222. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  1223. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  1224. directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  1225. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  1226. from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  1227. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  1228. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1229. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  1230. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  1231. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  1232. - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  1233. too -- so detect and avoid this.
  1234. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  1235. giving an error).
  1236. - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  1237. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  1238. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  1239. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  1240. don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  1241. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  1242. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  1243. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  1244. rendezvous circuits.
  1245. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  1246. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1247. - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  1248. messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  1249. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  1250. advertising it because of hibernation.
  1251. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  1252. - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
  1253. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  1254. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  1255. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  1256. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  1257. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  1258. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  1259. the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  1260. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  1261. - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  1262. exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  1263. policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  1264. as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  1265. reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  1266. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  1267. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1268. - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  1269. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  1270. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  1271. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  1272. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  1273. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  1274. be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  1275. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  1276. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  1277. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  1278. - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  1279. most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  1280. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  1281. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  1282. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1283. - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  1284. (CVE-2005-2643).
  1285. - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  1286. controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  1287. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  1288. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1289. - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  1290. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  1291. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  1292. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  1293. pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  1294. in the start menu.
  1295. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  1296. new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  1297. not-broken.
  1298. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  1299. o New directory servers:
  1300. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  1301. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1302. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  1303. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  1304. pthreads libraries.
  1305. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  1306. claims its dirport is 0.
  1307. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  1308. getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  1309. Edman for the fix.
  1310. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  1311. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1312. - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  1313. exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  1314. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  1315. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  1316. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  1317. - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  1318. Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  1319. o Fixes on Win32:
  1320. - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
  1321. patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
  1322. - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
  1323. servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
  1324. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  1325. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
  1326. means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
  1327. has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  1328. - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
  1329. file.
  1330. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  1331. Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  1332. o Assert / crash bugs:
  1333. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  1334. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  1335. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  1336. (CVE-2005-2050).
  1337. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  1338. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  1339. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  1340. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
  1341. pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
  1342. o Resource leaks:
  1343. - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
  1344. forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
  1345. duplicate ram over time.
  1346. - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
  1347. reentry and threadsafeness.
  1348. - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  1349. netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
  1350. resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
  1351. threading issues.
  1352. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  1353. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  1354. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  1355. point at your Tor server.
  1356. - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
  1357. Adam Langley.)
  1358. - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
  1359. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  1360. we're leaking.
  1361. o Protocol correctness:
  1362. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  1363. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  1364. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  1365. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
  1366. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  1367. to abandon partially built circuits.
  1368. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  1369. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  1370. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  1371. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  1372. descriptors we just dropped.
  1373. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  1374. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
  1375. and to take errno into account where possible.
  1376. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  1377. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  1378. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  1379. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  1380. o Robustness improvements:
  1381. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  1382. - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
  1383. nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  1384. appropriate nodes.
  1385. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  1386. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  1387. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  1388. that will want high uptime circuits.
  1389. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  1390. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  1391. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  1392. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  1393. - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
  1394. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  1395. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  1396. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  1397. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  1398. - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
  1399. we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
  1400. make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
  1401. make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
  1402. circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  1403. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  1404. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  1405. for google.com" problem.
  1406. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  1407. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  1408. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  1409. these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  1410. provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  1411. clients yet.
  1412. o Reachability testing.
  1413. - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
  1414. DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
  1415. descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
  1416. DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
  1417. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  1418. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  1419. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  1420. - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
  1421. they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
  1422. already connected to them.
  1423. - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
  1424. or later.
  1425. o Dirserver fixes:
  1426. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  1427. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  1428. nickname+key are allowed.
  1429. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  1430. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  1431. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  1432. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  1433. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  1434. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  1435. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  1436. have quite wrong clocks).
  1437. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  1438. addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  1439. IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  1440. their descriptors are being rejected.
  1441. o Efficiency improvements:
  1442. - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
  1443. and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
  1444. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
  1445. kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
  1446. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  1447. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  1448. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  1449. after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  1450. if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  1451. assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  1452. error message.
  1453. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  1454. reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  1455. it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  1456. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  1457. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  1458. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  1459. OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  1460. OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  1461. of CPU time plus memory.
  1462. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  1463. directory every time you regenerate it.
  1464. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  1465. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  1466. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  1467. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  1468. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  1469. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  1470. lowercase when you first see them.
  1471. o Hidden services:
  1472. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  1473. hidden services better.
  1474. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  1475. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  1476. when we try to launch one.
  1477. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
  1478. after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
  1479. attempts to build a circuit.
  1480. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  1481. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  1482. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  1483. normal web requests.
  1484. o Controller:
  1485. - More Tor controller support. See
  1486. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  1487. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  1488. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  1489. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  1490. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  1491. to make it easier to write controllers.
  1492. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  1493. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  1494. Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
  1495. log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
  1496. new log event types.
  1497. o New config options/defaults:
  1498. - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  1499. the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  1500. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  1501. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  1502. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  1503. exit policy.
  1504. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  1505. config option.
  1506. - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
  1507. based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
  1508. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  1509. the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
  1510. willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
  1511. capacity too.)
  1512. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  1513. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  1514. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  1515. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  1516. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  1517. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  1518. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  1519. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  1520. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  1521. required exit node for certain sites.
  1522. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  1523. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  1524. your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  1525. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  1526. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  1527. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  1528. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  1529. - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
  1530. a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
  1531. servers).
  1532. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
  1533. on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
  1534. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  1535. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  1536. private-IP addresses.
  1537. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  1538. smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
  1539. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
  1540. a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  1541. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  1542. LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  1543. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  1544. is valid without actually launching Tor.
  1545. o Logging improvements:
  1546. - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
  1547. contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  1548. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
  1549. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  1550. yell so much.
  1551. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  1552. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  1553. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  1554. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  1555. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  1556. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  1557. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  1558. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  1559. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  1560. wrong.
  1561. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  1562. it was.
  1563. - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  1564. already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  1565. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  1566. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  1567. - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  1568. pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
  1569. o New contrib scripts:
  1570. - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
  1571. script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  1572. addresses/ports.
  1573. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  1574. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  1575. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  1576. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  1577. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  1578. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  1579. via addresses like
  1580. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  1581. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  1582. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  1583. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  1584. on FreeBSD)
  1585. o Misc bugfixes:
  1586. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  1587. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  1588. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  1589. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  1590. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  1591. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  1592. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  1593. the socks reject.
  1594. - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
  1595. something more reasonable when first installing.
  1596. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  1597. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  1598. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  1599. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  1600. get the nodes.
  1601. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  1602. artificially capped at 500kB.
  1603. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  1604. addresses.
  1605. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  1606. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  1607. they could use instead.
  1608. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  1609. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
  1610. installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  1611. the user asks you to.
  1612. o Misc features:
  1613. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
  1614. rather than just rejecting it.
  1615. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  1616. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  1617. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  1618. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  1619. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  1620. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  1621. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  1622. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  1623. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  1624. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  1625. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  1626. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  1627. the same series.
  1628. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  1629. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  1630. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  1631. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  1632. they're malformed.
  1633. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  1634. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  1635. for now.
  1636. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  1637. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  1638. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  1639. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  1640. come later.
  1641. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  1642. whether the server is hibernating.
  1643. Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  1644. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  1645. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  1646. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  1647. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  1648. (CVE-2005-2050).
  1649. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  1650. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1651. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  1652. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  1653. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  1654. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  1655. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1656. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  1657. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  1658. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  1659. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  1660. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  1661. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  1662. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1663. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  1664. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  1665. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  1666. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  1667. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  1668. creating actual system users.
  1669. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  1670. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  1671. in 0.1.0.x).
  1672. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  1673. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  1674. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  1675. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  1676. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  1677. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  1678. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  1679. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  1680. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  1681. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  1682. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  1683. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  1684. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  1685. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  1686. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  1687. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  1688. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  1689. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  1690. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  1691. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  1692. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  1693. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  1694. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  1695. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  1696. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  1697. existing torrc files.
  1698. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  1699. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  1700. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1701. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  1702. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  1703. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  1704. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  1705. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  1706. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  1707. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  1708. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  1709. file descriptors available.
  1710. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  1711. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  1712. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  1713. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  1714. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1715. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  1716. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  1717. freak out.
  1718. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  1719. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  1720. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  1721. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  1722. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  1723. logs, etc.
  1724. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  1725. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  1726. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  1727. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  1728. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  1729. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  1730. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  1731. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  1732. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  1733. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  1734. 800kB/s of capacity.
  1735. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  1736. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  1737. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1738. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  1739. need as much processor time.
  1740. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  1741. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  1742. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  1743. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  1744. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  1745. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  1746. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  1747. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  1748. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  1749. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  1750. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  1751. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  1752. resetting.
  1753. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  1754. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  1755. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  1756. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  1757. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  1758. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  1759. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  1760. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  1761. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  1762. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  1763. to a file.
  1764. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  1765. style address, then we'd crash.
  1766. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  1767. a dirserver is broken.
  1768. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  1769. may work better.
  1770. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  1771. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  1772. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  1773. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  1774. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  1775. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  1776. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  1777. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  1778. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  1779. take any away.
  1780. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  1781. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  1782. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  1783. DataDirectory.
  1784. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  1785. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  1786. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  1787. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  1788. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  1789. values at once couldn't work.
  1790. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  1791. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  1792. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  1793. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  1794. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  1795. they can handle any number of routers.
  1796. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  1797. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  1798. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  1799. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  1800. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  1801. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  1802. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  1803. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  1804. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  1805. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  1806. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1807. - Make hibernation actually work.
  1808. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  1809. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  1810. don't use the stream status code.
  1811. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  1812. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  1813. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  1814. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  1815. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  1816. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  1817. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  1818. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  1819. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  1820. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  1821. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  1822. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  1823. bit platforms.
  1824. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  1825. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  1826. win32 socket errors better.
  1827. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  1828. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  1829. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  1830. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  1831. happier.
  1832. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  1833. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  1834. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  1835. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  1836. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  1837. right after sending the begin cell.
  1838. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  1839. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  1840. exit nodes too. Oops.
  1841. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  1842. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  1843. the user would get no response.
  1844. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  1845. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  1846. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  1847. forever.
  1848. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  1849. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  1850. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  1851. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  1852. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  1853. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  1854. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  1855. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  1856. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  1857. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  1858. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  1859. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  1860. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  1861. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  1862. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  1863. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  1864. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  1865. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  1866. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  1867. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  1868. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  1869. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  1870. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  1871. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  1872. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  1873. so we don't see those messages days later.
  1874. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  1875. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  1876. bug).
  1877. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  1878. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  1879. they ran out of file descriptors.
  1880. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  1881. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  1882. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  1883. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  1884. recent enough.
  1885. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  1886. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  1887. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  1888. the ones we find in directories.)
  1889. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  1890. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  1891. if you don't want it open.
  1892. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  1893. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  1894. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  1895. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  1896. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  1897. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  1898. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  1899. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  1900. overflow behavior.
  1901. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  1902. hey.)
  1903. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  1904. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  1905. o Features (circuits and streams):
  1906. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  1907. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  1908. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  1909. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  1910. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  1911. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  1912. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  1913. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  1914. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  1915. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  1916. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  1917. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  1918. from Geoff Goodell.
  1919. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  1920. pick it anyway.
  1921. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  1922. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  1923. to fill the last cell completely.
  1924. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  1925. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  1926. o Features (bandwidth):
  1927. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  1928. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  1929. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  1930. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  1931. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  1932. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  1933. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  1934. your billing cycle starts on.
  1935. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  1936. hibernation properties by
  1937. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  1938. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  1939. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  1940. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  1941. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  1942. o Features (directories):
  1943. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  1944. nickname to its identity key.
  1945. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  1946. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  1947. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  1948. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  1949. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  1950. appropriate.
  1951. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  1952. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  1953. running-routers.z
  1954. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  1955. will be able to get a directory.
  1956. - Http proxy support
  1957. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  1958. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  1959. be routed through this host.
  1960. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  1961. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  1962. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  1963. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  1964. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  1965. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  1966. o Features (packages and install):
  1967. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  1968. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  1969. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  1970. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  1971. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  1972. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  1973. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  1974. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  1975. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  1976. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  1977. is broken.
  1978. o Features (ui controller):
  1979. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  1980. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  1981. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  1982. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  1983. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  1984. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  1985. with the control port.
  1986. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  1987. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  1988. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  1989. configuration to torrc.
  1990. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  1991. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  1992. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  1993. o Features (config and command-line):
  1994. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  1995. not on the command line.
  1996. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  1997. options.
  1998. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  1999. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  2000. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  2001. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  2002. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  2003. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  2004. - New log format in config:
  2005. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  2006. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  2007. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  2008. from their dirserver.
  2009. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  2010. and then exit.
  2011. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  2012. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  2013. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  2014. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  2015. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  2016. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  2017. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  2018. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  2019. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  2020. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  2021. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  2022. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  2023. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  2024. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  2025. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  2026. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  2027. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  2028. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  2029. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  2030. than once per minute.
  2031. o Features (other):
  2032. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  2033. get back to normal.)
  2034. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  2035. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  2036. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  2037. log more informatively.
  2038. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  2039. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  2040. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  2041. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  2042. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  2043. them act more like real nodes.
  2044. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  2045. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  2046. 1024) file descriptors.
  2047. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  2048. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  2049. o Bugfixes:
  2050. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  2051. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  2052. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  2053. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  2054. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  2055. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  2056. intermittent connections.
  2057. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  2058. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  2059. reattaches.
  2060. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  2061. in reporting stats locally.
  2062. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  2063. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  2064. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  2065. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  2066. o Bugfixes:
  2067. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  2068. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  2069. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  2070. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  2071. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  2072. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  2073. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  2074. list to decide who's running.
  2075. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  2076. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  2077. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  2078. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  2079. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  2080. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  2081. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  2082. for pointing out this bug.)
  2083. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  2084. directory.
  2085. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  2086. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  2087. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  2088. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  2089. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  2090. o Protocol changes:
  2091. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  2092. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  2093. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  2094. hadn't heard of before.
  2095. o Features:
  2096. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  2097. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  2098. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  2099. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  2100. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  2101. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  2102. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  2103. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  2104. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  2105. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  2106. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  2107. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  2108. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  2109. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  2110. - Directory caching.
  2111. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  2112. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  2113. directory they've pulled down.
  2114. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  2115. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  2116. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  2117. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  2118. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  2119. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  2120. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  2121. by hash-of-key).
  2122. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  2123. This isn't used yet.
  2124. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  2125. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  2126. clients don't use this yet.)
  2127. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  2128. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  2129. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  2130. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  2131. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  2132. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  2133. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  2134. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  2135. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  2136. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  2137. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  2138. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  2139. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  2140. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  2141. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  2142. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  2143. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  2144. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  2145. - File and name management:
  2146. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  2147. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  2148. as datadir.
  2149. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  2150. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  2151. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  2152. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  2153. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  2154. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  2155. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  2156. to use.
  2157. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  2158. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  2159. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  2160. locally.
  2161. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  2162. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  2163. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  2164. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  2165. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  2166. - New docs in the tarball:
  2167. - tor-doc.html.
  2168. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  2169. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  2170. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  2171. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  2172. know you might want to get it verified.
  2173. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  2174. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  2175. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  2176. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  2177. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  2178. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  2179. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  2180. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  2181. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  2182. "GET /".
  2183. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  2184. an exitnode.
  2185. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  2186. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  2187. or exit nodes.
  2188. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  2189. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  2190. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  2191. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  2192. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  2193. ask them to resolve the host "".
  2194. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  2195. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  2196. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  2197. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  2198. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  2199. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  2200. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  2201. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  2202. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  2203. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  2204. them.
  2205. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  2206. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  2207. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  2208. exit nodes.
  2209. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  2210. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  2211. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  2212. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  2213. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  2214. o Fixes for security bugs:
  2215. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  2216. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  2217. a trusted dirserver.
  2218. o Other bugfixes:
  2219. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  2220. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  2221. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  2222. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  2223. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  2224. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  2225. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  2226. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  2227. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  2228. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  2229. have failed.
  2230. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  2231. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  2232. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  2233. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  2234. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  2235. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  2236. easily.
  2237. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  2238. settings too.
  2239. o Features:
  2240. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  2241. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  2242. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  2243. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  2244. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  2245. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  2246. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  2247. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  2248. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  2249. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  2250. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  2251. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  2252. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  2253. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  2254. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  2255. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  2256. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  2257. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  2258. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  2259. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  2260. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  2261. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  2262. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  2263. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  2264. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  2265. server.
  2266. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  2267. o Features:
  2268. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  2269. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  2270. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  2271. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  2272. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  2273. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  2274. if you decrypted them correctly.
  2275. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  2276. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  2277. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  2278. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  2279. in-memory directories too.
  2280. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  2281. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  2282. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  2283. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  2284. just close the circ.
  2285. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  2286. - Better debugging for tls errors
  2287. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  2288. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  2289. o Bugfixes:
  2290. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  2291. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  2292. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  2293. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  2294. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  2295. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  2296. it tells you about the first error.
  2297. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  2298. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  2299. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  2300. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  2301. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  2302. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  2303. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  2304. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  2305. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  2306. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  2307. o Portability:
  2308. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  2309. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  2310. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  2311. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  2312. torrc. (Woo!)
  2313. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  2314. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  2315. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  2316. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  2317. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  2318. expect it to have a nickname.
  2319. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  2320. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  2321. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  2322. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  2323. the dns farm to do it.
  2324. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  2325. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  2326. directory.
  2327. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  2328. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  2329. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  2330. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  2331. but that aren't warnings
  2332. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  2333. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  2334. we would crash.
  2335. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  2336. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  2337. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  2338. - include missing header fcntl.h
  2339. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  2340. - deal with hardware word alignment
  2341. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  2342. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  2343. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  2344. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  2345. by kill -USR1 currently.
  2346. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  2347. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  2348. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  2349. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  2350. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  2351. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  2352. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  2353. o Bugfixes:
  2354. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  2355. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  2356. - And fix a few endian issues.
  2357. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  2358. o New features:
  2359. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  2360. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  2361. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  2362. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  2363. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  2364. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  2365. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  2366. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  2367. about as a server.
  2368. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  2369. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  2370. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  2371. o Bugfixes:
  2372. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  2373. simply not true.
  2374. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  2375. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  2376. side isn't reading right then.
  2377. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  2378. RecommendedVersions
  2379. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  2380. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  2381. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  2382. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  2383. o New features:
  2384. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  2385. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  2386. e.g. poblano.
  2387. o Bugfixes:
  2388. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  2389. crashed.
  2390. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  2391. o Bugfixes:
  2392. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  2393. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  2394. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  2395. connection is finished.
  2396. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  2397. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  2398. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  2399. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  2400. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  2401. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  2402. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  2403. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  2404. rather than warn and continue.
  2405. - Make --version work
  2406. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  2407. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  2408. o New features:
  2409. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  2410. knows it's working.
  2411. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  2412. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  2413. clearly thwarted.)
  2414. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  2415. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  2416. so you can collect coredumps there.
  2417. o Bugfixes:
  2418. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  2419. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  2420. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  2421. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  2422. dns cache actually gets populated.
  2423. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  2424. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  2425. end cell down it first.
  2426. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  2427. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  2428. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  2429. o New features:
  2430. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  2431. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  2432. errors happen.
  2433. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  2434. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  2435. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  2436. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  2437. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  2438. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  2439. it.
  2440. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  2441. o Bugfixes:
  2442. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  2443. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  2444. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  2445. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  2446. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  2447. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  2448. dirservers.
  2449. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  2450. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  2451. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  2452. o New features:
  2453. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  2454. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  2455. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  2456. tor. It even has a man page.
  2457. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  2458. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  2459. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  2460. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  2461. his/her torrc.
  2462. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  2463. o Bugfixes:
  2464. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  2465. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  2466. o New features:
  2467. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  2468. it, apt-getters. :)
  2469. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  2470. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  2471. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  2472. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  2473. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  2474. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  2475. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  2476. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  2477. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  2478. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  2479. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  2480. to new ones.
  2481. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  2482. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  2483. o Bugfixes:
  2484. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  2485. after a while.
  2486. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  2487. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  2488. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  2489. o Bugfixes:
  2490. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  2491. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  2492. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  2493. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  2494. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  2495. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  2496. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  2497. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  2498. logfile so you know it's working.
  2499. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  2500. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  2501. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  2502. o Bugfixes:
  2503. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  2504. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  2505. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  2506. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  2507. o Bugfixes:
  2508. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  2509. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  2510. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  2511. o Features:
  2512. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  2513. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  2514. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  2515. with MorphMix).
  2516. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  2517. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  2518. relay cells.
  2519. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  2520. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  2521. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  2522. this hop.
  2523. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  2524. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  2525. been made so far.
  2526. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  2527. o Bugfixes:
  2528. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  2529. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  2530. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  2531. o Features:
  2532. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  2533. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  2534. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  2535. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  2536. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  2537. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  2538. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  2539. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  2540. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  2541. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  2542. exit nodes.
  2543. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  2544. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  2545. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2546. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  2547. really screw things up.
  2548. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  2549. working.
  2550. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  2551. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  2552. established.
  2553. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  2554. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  2555. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  2556. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  2557. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  2558. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  2559. o Documentation:
  2560. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  2561. o Configuration:
  2562. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  2563. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  2564. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  2565. ORPort>0.
  2566. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  2567. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  2568. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2569. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  2570. - to get ownership/permissions right
  2571. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  2572. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  2573. pull down a directory again
  2574. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  2575. causing server crashes
  2576. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  2577. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  2578. - exit if bind() fails
  2579. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  2580. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  2581. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  2582. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  2583. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  2584. o Documentation:
  2585. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  2586. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  2587. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  2588. are down.
  2589. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  2590. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  2591. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  2592. exists, rather than failing
  2593. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  2594. which AP connections are standing by
  2595. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  2596. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  2597. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  2598. circuit.
  2599. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  2600. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  2601. o Configuration:
  2602. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  2603. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  2604. where to bind
  2605. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  2606. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  2607. - Reloads config on HUP
  2608. - Usage info on -h or --help
  2609. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  2610. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  2611. o General stability:
  2612. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  2613. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  2614. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  2615. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  2616. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  2617. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  2618. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  2619. o Buffers:
  2620. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  2621. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  2622. o Autoconf improvements:
  2623. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  2624. - Make install now works
  2625. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  2626. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  2627. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  2628. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  2629. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  2630. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  2631. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup