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  1. Changes so far in 0.0.9:
  2. pre1:
  3. o Bugfixes:
  4. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  5. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  6. if you don't want it open.
  7. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  8. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
  9. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  10. intermittent connections.
  11. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  12. happier.
  13. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  14. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  15. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  16. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  17. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  18. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  19. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  20. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  21. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  22. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  23. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  24. before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  25. assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  26. the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
  27. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  28. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  29. o Features:
  30. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  31. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  32. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  33. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  34. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  35. options.
  36. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  37. appropriate.
  38. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  39. We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  40. specified in HTTP 1.0.
  41. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  42. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  43. than once per minute
  44. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  45. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  46. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  47. o Bugfixes:
  48. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  49. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  50. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  51. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  52. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  53. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  54. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  55. list to decide who's running.
  56. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  57. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  58. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  59. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  60. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  61. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  62. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  63. for pointing out this bug.)
  64. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  65. directory.
  66. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  67. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  68. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  69. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  70. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  71. o Protocol changes:
  72. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  73. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  74. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  75. hadn't heard of before.
  76. o Features:
  77. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  78. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  79. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  80. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  81. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  82. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  83. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  84. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  85. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  86. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  87. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  88. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  89. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  90. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  91. - Directory caching.
  92. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  93. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  94. directory they've pulled down.
  95. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  96. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  97. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  98. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  99. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  100. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  101. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  102. by hash-of-key).
  103. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  104. This isn't used yet.
  105. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  106. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  107. clients don't use this yet.)
  108. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  109. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  110. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  111. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  112. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  113. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  114. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  115. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  116. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  117. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  118. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  119. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  120. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  121. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  122. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  123. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  124. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  125. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  126. - File and name management:
  127. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  128. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  129. as datadir.
  130. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  131. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  132. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  133. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  134. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  135. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  136. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  137. to use.
  138. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  139. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  140. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  141. locally.
  142. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  143. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  144. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  145. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  146. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  147. - New docs in the tarball:
  148. - tor-doc.html.
  149. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  150. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  151. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  152. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  153. know you might want to get it verified.
  154. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  155. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  156. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  157. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  158. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  159. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  160. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  161. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  162. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  163. "GET /".
  164. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  165. an exitnode.
  166. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  167. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  168. or exit nodes.
  169. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  170. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  171. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  172. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  173. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  174. ask them to resolve the host "".
  175. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  176. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  177. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  178. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  179. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  180. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  181. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  182. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  183. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  184. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  185. them.
  186. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  187. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  188. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  189. exit nodes.
  190. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  191. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  192. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  193. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  194. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  195. o Fixes for security bugs:
  196. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  197. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  198. a trusted dirserver.
  199. o Other bugfixes:
  200. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  201. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  202. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  203. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  204. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  205. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  206. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  207. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  208. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  209. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  210. have failed.
  211. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  212. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  213. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  214. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  215. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  216. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  217. easily.
  218. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  219. settings too.
  220. o Features:
  221. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  222. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  223. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  224. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  225. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  226. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  227. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  228. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  229. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  230. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  231. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  232. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  233. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  234. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  235. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  236. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  237. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  238. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  239. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  240. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  241. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  242. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  243. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  244. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  245. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  246. server.
  247. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  248. o Features:
  249. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  250. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  251. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  252. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  253. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  254. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  255. if you decrypted them correctly.
  256. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  257. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  258. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  259. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  260. in-memory directories too.
  261. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  262. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  263. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  264. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  265. just close the circ.
  266. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  267. - Better debugging for tls errors
  268. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  269. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  270. o Bugfixes:
  271. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  272. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  273. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  274. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  275. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  276. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  277. it tells you about the first error.
  278. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  279. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  280. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  281. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  282. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  283. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  284. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  285. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  286. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  287. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  288. o Portability:
  289. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  290. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  291. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  292. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  293. torrc. (Woo!)
  294. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  295. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  296. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  297. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  298. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  299. expect it to have a nickname.
  300. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  301. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  302. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  303. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  304. the dns farm to do it.
  305. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  306. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  307. directory.
  308. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  309. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  310. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  311. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  312. but that aren't warnings
  313. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  314. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  315. we would crash.
  316. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  317. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  318. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  319. - include missing header fcntl.h
  320. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  321. - deal with hardware word alignment
  322. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  323. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  324. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  325. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  326. by kill -USR1 currently.
  327. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  328. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  329. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  330. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  331. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  332. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  333. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  334. o Bugfixes:
  335. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  336. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  337. - And fix a few endian issues.
  338. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  339. o New features:
  340. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  341. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  342. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  343. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  344. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  345. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  346. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  347. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  348. about as a server.
  349. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  350. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  351. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  352. o Bugfixes:
  353. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  354. simply not true.
  355. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  356. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  357. side isn't reading right then.
  358. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  359. RecommendedVersions
  360. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  361. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  362. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  363. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  364. o New features:
  365. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  366. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  367. e.g. poblano.
  368. o Bugfixes:
  369. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  370. crashed.
  371. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  372. o Bugfixes:
  373. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  374. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  375. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  376. connection is finished.
  377. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  378. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  379. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  380. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  381. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  382. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  383. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  384. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  385. rather than warn and continue.
  386. - Make --version work
  387. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  388. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  389. o New features:
  390. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  391. knows it's working.
  392. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  393. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  394. clearly thwarted.)
  395. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  396. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  397. so you can collect coredumps there.
  398. o Bugfixes:
  399. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  400. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  401. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  402. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  403. dns cache actually gets populated.
  404. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  405. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  406. end cell down it first.
  407. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  408. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  409. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  410. o New features:
  411. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  412. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  413. errors happen.
  414. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  415. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  416. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  417. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  418. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  419. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  420. it.
  421. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  422. o Bugfixes:
  423. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  424. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  425. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  426. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  427. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  428. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  429. dirservers.
  430. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  431. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  432. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  433. o New features:
  434. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  435. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  436. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  437. tor. It even has a man page.
  438. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  439. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  440. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  441. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  442. his/her torrc.
  443. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  444. o Bugfixes:
  445. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  446. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  447. o New features:
  448. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  449. it, apt-getters. :)
  450. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  451. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  452. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  453. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  454. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  455. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  456. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  457. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  458. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  459. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  460. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  461. to new ones.
  462. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  463. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  464. o Bugfixes:
  465. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  466. after a while.
  467. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  468. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  469. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  470. o Bugfixes:
  471. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  472. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  473. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  474. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  475. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  476. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  477. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  478. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  479. logfile so you know it's working.
  480. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  481. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  482. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  483. o Bugfixes:
  484. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  485. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  486. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  487. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  488. o Bugfixes:
  489. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  490. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  491. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  492. o Features:
  493. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  494. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  495. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  496. with MorphMix).
  497. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  498. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  499. relay cells.
  500. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  501. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  502. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  503. this hop.
  504. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  505. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  506. been made so far.
  507. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  508. o Bugfixes:
  509. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  510. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  511. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  512. o Features:
  513. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  514. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  515. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  516. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  517. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  518. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  519. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  520. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  521. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  522. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  523. exit nodes.
  524. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  525. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  526. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  527. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  528. really screw things up.
  529. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  530. working.
  531. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  532. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  533. established.
  534. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  535. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  536. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  537. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  538. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  539. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  540. o Documentation:
  541. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  542. o Configuration:
  543. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  544. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  545. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  546. ORPort>0.
  547. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  548. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  549. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  550. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  551. - to get ownership/permissions right
  552. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  553. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  554. pull down a directory again
  555. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  556. causing server crashes
  557. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  558. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  559. - exit if bind() fails
  560. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  561. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  562. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  563. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  564. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  565. o Documentation:
  566. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  567. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  568. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  569. are down.
  570. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  571. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  572. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  573. exists, rather than failing
  574. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  575. which AP connections are standing by
  576. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  577. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  578. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  579. circuit.
  580. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  581. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  582. o Configuration:
  583. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  584. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  585. where to bind
  586. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  587. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  588. - Reloads config on HUP
  589. - Usage info on -h or --help
  590. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  591. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  592. o General stability:
  593. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  594. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  595. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  596. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  597. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  598. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  599. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  600. o Buffers:
  601. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  602. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  603. o Autoconf improvements:
  604. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  605. - Make install now works
  606. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  607. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  608. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  609. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  610. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  611. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  612. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup