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  1. Changes so far in 0.0.9:
  2. rc2:
  3. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
  4. - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
  5. - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
  6. and seconds.
  7. - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
  8. they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
  9. long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
  10. rc1:
  11. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  12. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  13. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  14. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  15. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  16. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  17. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  18. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  19. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
  20. - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
  21. - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
  22. 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
  23. them too.)
  24. - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
  25. - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
  26. o Features:
  27. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  28. hibernation properties by
  29. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  30. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  31. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  32. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  33. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  34. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  35. get back to normal.)
  36. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  37. pick it anyway.
  38. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  39. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  40. to fill the last cell completely.
  41. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  42. pre6:
  43. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  44. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  45. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  46. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  47. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  48. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  49. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  50. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  51. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  52. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  53. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
  54. - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
  55. - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
  56. 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
  57. - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
  58. - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
  59. it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
  60. - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
  61. down a lot.
  62. - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
  63. - Make kill -USR1 work again.
  64. - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
  65. of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
  66. - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
  67. have it on start-up.
  68. o Features:
  69. - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
  70. running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
  71. - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
  72. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  73. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  74. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  75. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  76. configuration to torrc.
  77. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  78. - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
  79. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  80. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  81. - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
  82. we catch.
  83. - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
  84. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  85. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  86. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  87. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  88. log more informatively.
  89. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  90. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  91. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  92. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  93. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  94. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  95. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  96. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  97. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  98. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  99. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  100. pre5:
  101. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  102. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  103. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  104. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  105. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  106. bug).
  107. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  108. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  109. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  110. they ran out of file descriptors.
  111. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  112. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  113. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  114. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  115. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  116. recent enough.
  117. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  118. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
  119. - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
  120. - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
  121. enough version of the resolve code to work right.
  122. o Major Features:
  123. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
  124. set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
  125. consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
  126. month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
  127. at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
  128. hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
  129. specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
  130. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  131. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  132. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  133. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  134. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  135. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  136. with the control port.
  137. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  138. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  139. - New log format in config:
  140. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  141. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  142. o Minor Features:
  143. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  144. from their dirserver.
  145. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  146. and then exit.
  147. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  148. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  149. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  150. them act more like real nodes.
  151. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  152. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  153. is broken.
  154. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  155. nickname to its identity key.
  156. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  157. not on the command line.
  158. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  159. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  160. 1024) file descriptors.
  161. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  162. - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  163. hey.)
  164. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  165. - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
  166. - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
  167. pre4:
  168. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
  169. - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
  170. descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
  171. an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
  172. - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
  173. configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
  174. - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
  175. exit policy, not reject *:*.
  176. - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
  177. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  178. o Features:
  179. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  180. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  181. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  182. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  183. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  184. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  185. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  186. pre3:
  187. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
  188. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  189. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  190. the ones we find in directories.)
  191. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  192. bit platforms.
  193. - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
  194. as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
  195. the dirserver.
  196. - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
  197. close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
  198. would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
  199. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
  200. - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
  201. provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
  202. - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
  203. corruption.
  204. - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
  205. - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
  206. any more exit policy lines.
  207. o Features:
  208. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  209. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  210. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  211. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  212. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  213. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  214. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  215. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  216. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  217. will be able to get a directory.
  218. - Http proxy support
  219. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  220. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  221. be routed through this host.
  222. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  223. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  224. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  225. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  226. pre2:
  227. o Bugfixes on pre1:
  228. - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
  229. - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
  230. pre1:
  231. o Bugfixes:
  232. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  233. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  234. if you don't want it open.
  235. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
  236. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  237. happier.
  238. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  239. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  240. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  241. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  242. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  243. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  244. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  245. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  246. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  247. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  248. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  249. before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  250. assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  251. the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
  252. o Features:
  253. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  254. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  255. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  256. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  257. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  258. options.
  259. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  260. appropriate.
  261. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  262. We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  263. specified in HTTP 1.0.
  264. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  265. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  266. than once per minute
  267. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  268. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  269. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  270. o Bugfixes:
  271. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  272. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  273. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  274. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  275. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  276. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  277. intermittent connections.
  278. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  279. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  280. reattaches.
  281. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  282. in reporting stats locally.
  283. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  284. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  285. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  286. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  287. o Bugfixes:
  288. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  289. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  290. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  291. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  292. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  293. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  294. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  295. list to decide who's running.
  296. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  297. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  298. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  299. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  300. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  301. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  302. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  303. for pointing out this bug.)
  304. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  305. directory.
  306. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  307. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  308. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  309. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  310. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  311. o Protocol changes:
  312. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  313. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  314. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  315. hadn't heard of before.
  316. o Features:
  317. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  318. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  319. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  320. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  321. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  322. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  323. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  324. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  325. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  326. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  327. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  328. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  329. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  330. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  331. - Directory caching.
  332. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  333. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  334. directory they've pulled down.
  335. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  336. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  337. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  338. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  339. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  340. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  341. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  342. by hash-of-key).
  343. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  344. This isn't used yet.
  345. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  346. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  347. clients don't use this yet.)
  348. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  349. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  350. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  351. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  352. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  353. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  354. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  355. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  356. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  357. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  358. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  359. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  360. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  361. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  362. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  363. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  364. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  365. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  366. - File and name management:
  367. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  368. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  369. as datadir.
  370. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  371. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  372. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  373. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  374. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  375. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  376. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  377. to use.
  378. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  379. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  380. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  381. locally.
  382. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  383. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  384. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  385. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  386. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  387. - New docs in the tarball:
  388. - tor-doc.html.
  389. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  390. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  391. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  392. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  393. know you might want to get it verified.
  394. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  395. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  396. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  397. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  398. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  399. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  400. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  401. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  402. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  403. "GET /".
  404. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  405. an exitnode.
  406. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  407. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  408. or exit nodes.
  409. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  410. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  411. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  412. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  413. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  414. ask them to resolve the host "".
  415. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  416. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  417. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  418. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  419. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  420. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  421. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  422. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  423. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  424. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  425. them.
  426. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  427. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  428. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  429. exit nodes.
  430. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  431. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  432. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  433. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  434. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  435. o Fixes for security bugs:
  436. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  437. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  438. a trusted dirserver.
  439. o Other bugfixes:
  440. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  441. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  442. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  443. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  444. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  445. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  446. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  447. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  448. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  449. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  450. have failed.
  451. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  452. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  453. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  454. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  455. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  456. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  457. easily.
  458. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  459. settings too.
  460. o Features:
  461. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  462. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  463. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  464. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  465. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  466. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  467. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  468. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  469. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  470. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  471. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  472. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  473. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  474. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  475. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  476. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  477. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  478. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  479. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  480. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  481. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  482. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  483. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  484. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  485. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  486. server.
  487. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  488. o Features:
  489. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  490. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  491. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  492. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  493. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  494. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  495. if you decrypted them correctly.
  496. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  497. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  498. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  499. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  500. in-memory directories too.
  501. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  502. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  503. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  504. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  505. just close the circ.
  506. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  507. - Better debugging for tls errors
  508. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  509. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  510. o Bugfixes:
  511. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  512. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  513. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  514. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  515. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  516. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  517. it tells you about the first error.
  518. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  519. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  520. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  521. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  522. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  523. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  524. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  525. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  526. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  527. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  528. o Portability:
  529. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  530. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  531. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  532. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  533. torrc. (Woo!)
  534. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  535. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  536. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  537. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  538. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  539. expect it to have a nickname.
  540. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  541. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  542. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  543. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  544. the dns farm to do it.
  545. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  546. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  547. directory.
  548. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  549. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  550. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  551. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  552. but that aren't warnings
  553. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  554. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  555. we would crash.
  556. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  557. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  558. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  559. - include missing header fcntl.h
  560. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  561. - deal with hardware word alignment
  562. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  563. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  564. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  565. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  566. by kill -USR1 currently.
  567. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  568. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  569. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  570. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  571. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  572. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  573. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  574. o Bugfixes:
  575. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  576. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  577. - And fix a few endian issues.
  578. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  579. o New features:
  580. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  581. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  582. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  583. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  584. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  585. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  586. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  587. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  588. about as a server.
  589. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  590. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  591. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  592. o Bugfixes:
  593. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  594. simply not true.
  595. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  596. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  597. side isn't reading right then.
  598. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  599. RecommendedVersions
  600. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  601. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  602. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  603. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  604. o New features:
  605. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  606. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  607. e.g. poblano.
  608. o Bugfixes:
  609. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  610. crashed.
  611. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  612. o Bugfixes:
  613. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  614. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  615. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  616. connection is finished.
  617. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  618. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  619. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  620. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  621. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  622. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  623. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  624. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  625. rather than warn and continue.
  626. - Make --version work
  627. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  628. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  629. o New features:
  630. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  631. knows it's working.
  632. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  633. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  634. clearly thwarted.)
  635. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  636. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  637. so you can collect coredumps there.
  638. o Bugfixes:
  639. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  640. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  641. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  642. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  643. dns cache actually gets populated.
  644. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  645. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  646. end cell down it first.
  647. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  648. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  649. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  650. o New features:
  651. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  652. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  653. errors happen.
  654. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  655. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  656. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  657. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  658. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  659. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  660. it.
  661. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  662. o Bugfixes:
  663. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  664. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  665. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  666. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  667. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  668. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  669. dirservers.
  670. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  671. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  672. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  673. o New features:
  674. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  675. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  676. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  677. tor. It even has a man page.
  678. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  679. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  680. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  681. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  682. his/her torrc.
  683. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  684. o Bugfixes:
  685. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  686. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  687. o New features:
  688. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  689. it, apt-getters. :)
  690. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  691. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  692. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  693. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  694. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  695. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  696. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  697. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  698. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  699. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  700. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  701. to new ones.
  702. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  703. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  704. o Bugfixes:
  705. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  706. after a while.
  707. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  708. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  709. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  710. o Bugfixes:
  711. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  712. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  713. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  714. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  715. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  716. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  717. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  718. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  719. logfile so you know it's working.
  720. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  721. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  722. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  723. o Bugfixes:
  724. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  725. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  726. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  727. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  728. o Bugfixes:
  729. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  730. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  731. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  732. o Features:
  733. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  734. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  735. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  736. with MorphMix).
  737. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  738. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  739. relay cells.
  740. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  741. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  742. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  743. this hop.
  744. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  745. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  746. been made so far.
  747. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  748. o Bugfixes:
  749. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  750. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  751. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  752. o Features:
  753. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  754. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  755. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  756. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  757. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  758. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  759. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  760. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  761. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  762. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  763. exit nodes.
  764. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  765. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  766. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  767. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  768. really screw things up.
  769. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  770. working.
  771. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  772. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  773. established.
  774. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  775. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  776. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  777. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  778. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  779. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  780. o Documentation:
  781. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  782. o Configuration:
  783. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  784. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  785. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  786. ORPort>0.
  787. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  788. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  789. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  790. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  791. - to get ownership/permissions right
  792. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  793. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  794. pull down a directory again
  795. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  796. causing server crashes
  797. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  798. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  799. - exit if bind() fails
  800. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  801. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  802. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  803. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  804. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  805. o Documentation:
  806. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  807. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  808. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  809. are down.
  810. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  811. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  812. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  813. exists, rather than failing
  814. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  815. which AP connections are standing by
  816. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  817. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  818. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  819. circuit.
  820. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  821. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  822. o Configuration:
  823. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  824. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  825. where to bind
  826. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  827. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  828. - Reloads config on HUP
  829. - Usage info on -h or --help
  830. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  831. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  832. o General stability:
  833. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  834. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  835. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  836. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  837. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  838. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  839. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  840. o Buffers:
  841. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  842. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  843. o Autoconf improvements:
  844. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  845. - Make install now works
  846. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  847. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  848. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  849. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  850. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  851. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  852. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup