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- Changes so far in 0.0.9:
- rc2:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
- - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
- - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
- and seconds.
- - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
- they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
- long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
- rc1:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
- With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
- we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
- socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
- eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
- bytes sitting in the inbuf.
- - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
- - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
- - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
- 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
- them too.)
- - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
- - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
- o Features:
- - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
- hibernation properties by
- AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
- AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
- Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
- - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
- kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
- - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
- get back to normal.)
- - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
- pick it anyway.
- - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
- once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
- to fill the last cell completely.
- - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
- pre6:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
- - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
- half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
- because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
- as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
- - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
- write() call will fail and we handle it there.
- - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
- and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
- - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
- - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
- 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
- - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
- - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
- it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
- - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
- down a lot.
- - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
- - Make kill -USR1 work again.
- - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
- of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
- - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
- have it on start-up.
- o Features:
- - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
- running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
- - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
- - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
- - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
- - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
- - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
- configuration to torrc.
- - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
- - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
- - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
- But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
- - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
- we catch.
- - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
- - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
- - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
- ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
- - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
- log more informatively.
- - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
- - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
- - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
- servers and clients to have any clock skew.
- - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
- - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
- - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
- - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
- - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
- - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
- from each other, to hinder linkability.
- pre5:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
- the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
- - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
- INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
- bug).
- - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
- - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
- Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
- they ran out of file descriptors.
- - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
- - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
- that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
- with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
- don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
- recent enough.
- - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
- - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
- - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
- enough version of the resolve code to work right.
- o Major Features:
- - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
- set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
- consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
- month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
- at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
- hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
- specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
- - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
- client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
- notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
- bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
- Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
- - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
- with the control port.
- - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
- use in authenticating to the control interface.
- - New log format in config:
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
- o Minor Features:
- - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
- from their dirserver.
- - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
- and then exit.
- - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
- out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
- - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
- them act more like real nodes.
- - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
- - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
- is broken.
- - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
- nickname to its identity key.
- - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
- not on the command line.
- - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
- - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
- 1024) file descriptors.
- o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
- - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
- hey.)
- - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
- - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
- - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
- pre4:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
- - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
- descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
- an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
- - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
- configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
- - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
- exit policy, not reject *:*.
- - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
- - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
- o Features:
- - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
- specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
- with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
- - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
- specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
- - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
- server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
- pre3:
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
- - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
- the ones we find in directories.)
- - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
- bit platforms.
- - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
- as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
- the dirserver.
- - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
- close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
- would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
- - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
- provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
- - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
- corruption.
- - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
- - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
- any more exit policy lines.
- o Features:
- - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
- - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
- - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
- parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
- - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
- - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
- repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
- default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
- - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
- will be able to get a directory.
- - Http proxy support
- - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
- - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
- be routed through this host.
- - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
- This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
- - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
- with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
- pre2:
- o Bugfixes on pre1:
- - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
- - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
- pre1:
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
- empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
- if you don't want it open.
- - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
- - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
- happier.
- - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
- more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
- circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
- connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
- a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
- - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
- crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
- there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
- which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
- - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
- before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
- assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
- the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
- o Features:
- - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
- of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
- - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
- lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
- - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
- options.
- - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
- appropriate.
- - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
- We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
- specified in HTTP 1.0.
- - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
- - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
- than once per minute
- - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
- 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
- Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
- clients/servers with an open dirport.
- - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
- our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
- - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
- intermittent connections.
- - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
- - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
- reattaches.
- - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
- in reporting stats locally.
- - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
- immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
- - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
- Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
- itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
- - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
- everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
- - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
- you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
- - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
- list to decide who's running.
- - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
- end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
- - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
- - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
- hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
- - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
- function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
- for pointing out this bug.)
- - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
- directory.
- - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
- don't put it into the client dns cache.
- - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
- address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
- reject *:* until we get our next directory.
- o Protocol changes:
- - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
- intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
- extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
- hadn't heard of before.
- o Features:
- - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
- without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
- - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
- by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
- - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
- list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
- - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
- nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
- - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
- routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
- Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
- - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
- low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
- - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
- - Directory caching.
- - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
- - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
- directory they've pulled down.
- - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
- - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
- DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
- - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
- authdirservers, to stay better synced.
- - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
- if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
- by hash-of-key).
- - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
- This isn't used yet.
- - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
- running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
- clients don't use this yet.)
- - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
- - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
- - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
- options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
- detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
- - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
- ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
- which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
- - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
- should tolerate down dirservers better now.
- - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
- - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
- connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
- - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
- and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
- clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
- - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
- connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
- - File and name management:
- - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
- - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
- as datadir.
- - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
- - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
- - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
- - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
- to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
- - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
- it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
- to use.
- - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
- rather than an is-in-the-list check.
- - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
- locally.
- - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
- - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
- interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
- - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
- - Write tor version at the top of each log file
- - New docs in the tarball:
- - tor-doc.html.
- - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
- - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
- are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
- - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
- know you might want to get it verified.
- - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
- kazaa, gnutella ports.
- - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
- - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
- - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
- snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
- - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
- has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
- - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
- "GET /".
- - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
- an exitnode.
- - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
- we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
- or exit nodes.
- - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
- IP address for outgoing connect()s.
- - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
- Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
- o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
- ask them to resolve the host "".
- Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
- o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
- eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
- Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
- o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
- since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
- Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
- o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
- - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
- to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
- them.
- - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
- would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
- give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
- exit nodes.
- - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
- hidden service per 15-minute period.
- - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
- the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
- even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
- o Fixes for security bugs:
- - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
- random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
- a trusted dirserver.
- o Other bugfixes:
- - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
- start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
- - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
- didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
- but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
- - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
- will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
- - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
- arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
- - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
- have failed.
- - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
- - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
- - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
- breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
- - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
- we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
- easily.
- - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
- settings too.
- o Features:
- - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
- - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
- now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
- - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
- directory (not that we were anywhere close).
- - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
- - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
- separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
- option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
- - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
- Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
- - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
- to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
- - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
- Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
- o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
- not the previous cells like we'd thought.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
- o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
- onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
- out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
- polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
- server.
- Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
- o Features:
- - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
- http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
- hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
- Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
- - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
- - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
- if you decrypted them correctly.
- - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
- exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
- - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
- approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
- in-memory directories too.
- - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
- - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
- - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
- - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
- just close the circ.
- - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
- - Better debugging for tls errors
- - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
- - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
- the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
- - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
- It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
- happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
- operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
- it tells you about the first error.
- - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
- When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
- - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
- - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
- returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
- - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
- o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
- o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
- o Win32's close can't close a socket.
- o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
- o Portability:
- - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
- <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
- Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
- o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
- torrc. (Woo!)
- o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
- o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
- using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
- This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
- o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
- expect it to have a nickname.
- o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
- early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
- o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
- o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
- the dns farm to do it.
- o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
- o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
- directory.
- o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
- rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
- o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
- o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
- but that aren't warnings
- Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
- o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
- we would crash.
- Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
- o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
- o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
- - include missing header fcntl.h
- - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
- - deal with hardware word alignment
- - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
- - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
- o Preliminary work on reputation system:
- - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
- by kill -USR1 currently.
- - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
- circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
- - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
- Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
- - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
- - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
- now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
- - And fix a few endian issues.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
- o New features:
- - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
- try that circuit again: try a new one.
- - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
- - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
- logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
- accept it even without mail from the server operator).
- - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
- - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
- about as a server.
- - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
- - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
- (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
- simply not true.
- - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
- expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
- side isn't reading right then.
- - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
- RecommendedVersions
- - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
- - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
- - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
- o New features:
- - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
- we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
- e.g. poblano.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
- crashed.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
- a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
- - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
- connection is finished.
- - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
- flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
- - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
- - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
- - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
- will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
- - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
- - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
- rather than warn and continue.
- - Make --version work
- - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
- o New features:
- - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
- knows it's working.
- - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
- send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
- clearly thwarted.)
- - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
- - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
- so you can collect coredumps there.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
- didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
- a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
- - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
- dns cache actually gets populated.
- - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
- - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
- end cell down it first.
- - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
- excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
- o New features:
- - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
- - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
- errors happen.
- - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
- Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
- - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
- 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
- - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
- their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
- it.
- - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
- then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
- think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
- - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
- - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
- Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
- dirservers.
- - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
- many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
- o New features:
- - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
- - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
- tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
- tor. It even has a man page.
- - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
- - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
- - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
- so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
- his/her torrc.
- - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
- o Bugfixes:
- - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
- o New features:
- - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
- it, apt-getters. :)
- - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
- bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
- BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
- kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
- BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
- performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
- - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
- than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
- may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
- - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
- from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
- to new ones.
- - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
- have them reattach to new circuits instead.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
- after a while.
- - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
- - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
- closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
- inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
- weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
- eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
- open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
- - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
- - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
- logfile so you know it's working.
- - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
- - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
- - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
- AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
- - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
- adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
- o Features:
- - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
- to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
- - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
- with MorphMix).
- - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
- - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
- relay cells.
- - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
- messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
- use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
- this hop.
- - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
- breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
- been made so far.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
- - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
- counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
- o Features:
- - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
- open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
- the circuit and then we open streams at him.
- - Add port ranges to exit policies
- - Add a conservative default exit policy
- - Warn if you're running tor as root
- - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
- - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
- - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
- your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
- exit nodes.
- - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
- really screw things up.
- - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
- working.
- - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
- handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
- established.
- - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
- - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
- - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
- - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
- - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
- - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
- o Configuration:
- - Change default loglevel to warn.
- - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
- - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
- ORPort>0.
- - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
- - to get ownership/permissions right
- - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
- - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
- pull down a directory again
- - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
- causing server crashes
- - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
- - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
- - exit if bind() fails
- - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
- - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
- - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
- - fix minor bias in PRNG
- - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote the design document (woo)
- o Circuit building and exit policies:
- - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
- are down.
- - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
- bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
- - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
- exists, rather than failing
- - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
- which AP connections are standing by
- - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
- - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
- - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
- circuit.
- - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
- - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
- o Configuration:
- - APPort is now called SocksPort
- - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
- where to bind
- - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
- hardcoded (for dirservers)
- - Reloads config on HUP
- - Usage info on -h or --help
- - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
- o General stability:
- - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
- of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
- - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
- - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
- - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
- to take down the network when I approve a new router
- - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
- o Buffers:
- - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
- - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
- o Autoconf improvements:
- - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
- - Make install now works
- - create var/lib/tor on make install
- - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
- - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
- o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
- - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
- - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
- - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup
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