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  1. This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
  2. of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
  3. each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
  4. Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
  5. Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
  6. a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
  7. gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  8. o Major bugfixes:
  9. - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
  10. with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
  11. is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
  12. - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
  13. a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
  14. sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
  15. by rovv.
  16. - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
  17. one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
  18. current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
  19. pointed out by rovv.
  20. o Minor bugfixes:
  21. - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
  22. 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  23. - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
  24. when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  25. - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
  26. Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
  27. - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
  28. option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
  29. option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
  30. Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
  31. - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
  32. stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
  33. session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
  34. ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bug found by Geoff Goodell.
  35. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
  36. - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
  37. option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
  38. /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
  39. Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
  40. - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
  41. or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
  42. on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
  43. on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
  44. - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
  45. getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
  46. 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
  47. Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
  48. This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
  49. distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
  50. network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
  51. rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
  52. become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
  53. includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
  54. o New v3 directory design:
  55. - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
  56. about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
  57. network status document rather than each publishing their own
  58. opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
  59. document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
  60. authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
  61. the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
  62. for details.
  63. - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
  64. in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
  65. ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
  66. dannenberg (run by CCC).
  67. - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
  68. long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
  69. generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
  70. to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
  71. "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
  72. - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
  73. v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
  74. Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
  75. - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
  76. less often, now that v3 is recommended.
  77. o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
  78. - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
  79. 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
  80. be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
  81. to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
  82. attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
  83. OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
  84. to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
  85. - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
  86. so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
  87. plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
  88. certain censored countries by default again.
  89. - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
  90. Tor's x509 certificates.
  91. o Implement bridge relays:
  92. - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
  93. listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
  94. list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
  95. known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
  96. See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
  97. - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
  98. bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
  99. to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
  100. and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
  101. rather than "v2,v3".
  102. - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
  103. relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
  104. bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
  105. can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
  106. mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
  107. bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
  108. all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
  109. - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
  110. for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
  111. stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
  112. so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
  113. o Implement bridge directory authorities:
  114. - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
  115. they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
  116. a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
  117. including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
  118. yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
  119. - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
  120. - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
  121. bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
  122. responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
  123. - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
  124. bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
  125. controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
  126. to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
  127. bridges are functioning.
  128. - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
  129. but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
  130. they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
  131. - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
  132. the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
  133. - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
  134. the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
  135. known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
  136. knows that password. Unset by default.
  137. - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
  138. report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
  139. privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
  140. able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
  141. certain countries start trying to block bridges.
  142. - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
  143. reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
  144. to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
  145. the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
  146. and bridges@torproject.org.
  147. o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
  148. - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
  149. dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
  150. for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
  151. anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
  152. The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
  153. - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
  154. resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
  155. generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
  156. allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
  157. default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
  158. patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
  159. - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
  160. address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
  161. longer a completely silly thing to do.
  162. o Major features (relay usability):
  163. - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
  164. a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
  165. relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
  166. OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
  167. proposal 111 for details.
  168. - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
  169. User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
  170. under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
  171. before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
  172. pick these ports.)
  173. - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
  174. SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
  175. on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
  176. o Major features (directory authorities):
  177. - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
  178. mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
  179. whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
  180. whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
  181. "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
  182. stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
  183. - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
  184. to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
  185. how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
  186. nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
  187. - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
  188. to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
  189. median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
  190. proposal 108.
  191. - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
  192. routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
  193. extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
  194. 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
  195. extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
  196. authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
  197. info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
  198. caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
  199. download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
  200. - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
  201. a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
  202. "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
  203. same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
  204. disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
  205. - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
  206. cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
  207. if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
  208. annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
  209. each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
  210. general, controller, or bridge.
  211. o Major features (other):
  212. - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
  213. Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
  214. vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
  215. 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
  216. by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
  217. - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
  218. hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
  219. function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
  220. on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
  221. fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
  222. - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
  223. "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
  224. connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
  225. connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
  226. fetching.
  227. o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
  228. - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
  229. used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
  230. Sebastian Hahn.
  231. - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
  232. with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
  233. - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
  234. use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
  235. list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
  236. kind of the revenge of bug 222.
  237. - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
  238. directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
  239. - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
  240. don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
  241. unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
  242. o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
  243. - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
  244. Dan Kaminsky.
  245. - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
  246. a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
  247. - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
  248. as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
  249. o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
  250. - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
  251. a private address space. Patch from lodger.
  252. - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
  253. relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
  254. bug 516.
  255. - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
  256. address maps to an internal address space.
  257. - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
  258. - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
  259. at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
  260. Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
  261. complements proposal 107.
  262. - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
  263. Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
  264. Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
  265. - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
  266. a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
  267. reported by taranis and lodger.
  268. - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
  269. using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
  270. pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
  271. - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
  272. put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
  273. clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
  274. anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
  275. the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
  276. set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
  277. or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
  278. - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
  279. enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
  280. guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
  281. bug 448.
  282. - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
  283. being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
  284. o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
  285. - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
  286. can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
  287. avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
  288. enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
  289. - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
  290. listeners. Reported by mwenge.
  291. o Major bugfixes (other):
  292. - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
  293. would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
  294. 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
  295. by nwf.
  296. - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
  297. to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
  298. saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
  299. pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
  300. each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
  301. automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
  302. only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
  303. - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
  304. mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
  305. IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
  306. - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
  307. huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
  308. clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
  309. - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
  310. and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
  311. circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
  312. so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
  313. more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
  314. scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
  315. o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
  316. - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
  317. write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
  318. newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
  319. make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
  320. and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
  321. eat all of our bandwidth.
  322. - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
  323. look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
  324. at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
  325. Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
  326. order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
  327. - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
  328. Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
  329. bug 688, reported by mfr.
  330. - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
  331. - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
  332. rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
  333. bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
  334. o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
  335. - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
  336. preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
  337. - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
  338. to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
  339. the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
  340. - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
  341. failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
  342. - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
  343. MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
  344. rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
  345. they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
  346. o Performance improvements (memory):
  347. - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
  348. replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
  349. Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
  350. ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
  351. - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
  352. used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
  353. of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
  354. also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
  355. memory fragmentation.
  356. - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
  357. Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
  358. client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
  359. queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
  360. will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
  361. of traffic.
  362. - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
  363. of them were actually distinct.
  364. - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
  365. RAM overhead used.
  366. - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
  367. for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
  368. 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
  369. - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
  370. of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
  371. - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
  372. empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
  373. performance-intensive.
  374. - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
  375. - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
  376. efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
  377. - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
  378. against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
  379. include paths.
  380. o Performance improvements (socket management):
  381. - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
  382. active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
  383. our allocated connection limit.
  384. - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
  385. anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
  386. Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
  387. in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
  388. client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
  389. workaround.
  390. - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
  391. cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
  392. o Performance improvements (CPU use):
  393. - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
  394. is interested in a given message.
  395. - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
  396. speed startup, especially on directory caches.
  397. - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
  398. the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
  399. implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
  400. OpenSSL.
  401. - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
  402. instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
  403. advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
  404. voodoo.
  405. - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
  406. counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
  407. network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
  408. they are the same).
  409. - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
  410. needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
  411. - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
  412. on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
  413. between processes.
  414. o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
  415. - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
  416. already have enough directory information to build circuits.
  417. - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
  418. authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
  419. no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
  420. working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
  421. versions anyway.
  422. - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
  423. relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
  424. decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
  425. - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
  426. estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
  427. handle more, do another bandwidth test.
  428. - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
  429. directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
  430. documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
  431. since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
  432. - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
  433. on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
  434. You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
  435. config option.
  436. o Changed config option behavior (features):
  437. - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
  438. helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
  439. file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
  440. - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
  441. Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
  442. ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
  443. this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
  444. - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
  445. have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
  446. - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
  447. PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
  448. - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
  449. accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
  450. and are reaching it.
  451. - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
  452. CookieAuthentication at the same time.
  453. - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
  454. stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
  455. o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
  456. - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
  457. generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
  458. based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
  459. - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
  460. AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
  461. - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
  462. - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
  463. set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
  464. and ioerror.
  465. - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
  466. BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
  467. they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
  468. - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
  469. minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
  470. - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
  471. - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
  472. lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
  473. in Oct 2004.)
  474. - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
  475. now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
  476. o New config options:
  477. - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
  478. AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
  479. of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
  480. running a test network on a single host.
  481. - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
  482. AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
  483. user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
  484. rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
  485. - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
  486. authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
  487. networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
  488. the approved-routers file.
  489. - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
  490. authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
  491. v2 directory information.
  492. o Minor features (other):
  493. - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
  494. to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
  495. on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
  496. - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
  497. accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
  498. negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
  499. proposal 110.
  500. - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
  501. to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
  502. we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
  503. a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
  504. bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
  505. - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
  506. an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
  507. fix for bug 535.
  508. - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
  509. than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
  510. when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
  511. routers anyway.
  512. - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
  513. in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
  514. and don't expire the descriptor until then.
  515. - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
  516. of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
  517. from localhost.
  518. - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
  519. we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
  520. if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
  521. back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
  522. - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
  523. none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
  524. - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
  525. from croup.)
  526. - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
  527. can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
  528. logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
  529. - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
  530. port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
  531. of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
  532. adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
  533. - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
  534. contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
  535. meet stdio.
  536. o Minor bugfixes (other):
  537. - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
  538. errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
  539. unhandled errors.
  540. - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
  541. address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
  542. network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
  543. - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
  544. example, when answering a directory request), reset the
  545. time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
  546. on the socket.
  547. - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
  548. bandwidthburst values.
  549. - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
  550. using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
  551. down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
  552. to mark all our entry points down.
  553. - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
  554. it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
  555. supposed to tolerate these servers now.
  556. - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
  557. a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
  558. address.
  559. - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
  560. more often than they are allowed to appear.
  561. - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
  562. - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  563. cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
  564. - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
  565. - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
  566. O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
  567. bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
  568. o Controller features:
  569. - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
  570. that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
  571. - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
  572. - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
  573. ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
  574. something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
  575. addresses.
  576. - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
  577. multiple controller passwords.
  578. - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
  579. hard time generating real Internet newlines.
  580. - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
  581. "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
  582. Robert Hogan.
  583. - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
  584. GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
  585. - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
  586. cookie authentication file, and config option
  587. CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
  588. - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
  589. match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  590. - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
  591. from Robert Hogan.
  592. - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
  593. Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
  594. - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
  595. controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
  596. support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
  597. - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
  598. with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
  599. Patch from Tup.
  600. - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
  601. use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
  602. preemptively.
  603. - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
  604. so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
  605. - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
  606. - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
  607. whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
  608. are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
  609. - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
  610. the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
  611. - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
  612. Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
  613. - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
  614. as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
  615. report the value as a "minimum skew."
  616. o Controller bugfixes:
  617. - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
  618. "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
  619. - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
  620. processes can't run us out of memory.
  621. - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
  622. so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
  623. - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
  624. correctly.
  625. - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
  626. running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
  627. it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
  628. "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
  629. - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
  630. signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
  631. 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
  632. the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
  633. isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
  634. - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
  635. compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
  636. field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
  637. - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
  638. - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
  639. server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
  640. by daejees.
  641. - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
  642. caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
  643. by daejees.
  644. - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
  645. circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
  646. to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
  647. - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
  648. WARN-severity events.
  649. o Portability / building / compiling:
  650. - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
  651. warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
  652. - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
  653. To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
  654. - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
  655. build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
  656. - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
  657. - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
  658. - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
  659. - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
  660. know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
  661. warning.
  662. - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
  663. string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
  664. some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
  665. the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
  666. Use this version consistently in log messages.
  667. - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
  668. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  669. partial results on small file reads.
  670. - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
  671. - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
  672. a directory. Fix from lodger.
  673. - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
  674. many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
  675. - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
  676. on mingw.
  677. - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
  678. invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
  679. to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
  680. logging for the unit tests.
  681. - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
  682. non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
  683. programs.
  684. - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
  685. some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
  686. Fixes bug 707.
  687. - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
  688. Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
  689. - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
  690. require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
  691. from coderman.
  692. o Logging improvements:
  693. - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
  694. logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
  695. - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
  696. - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
  697. - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
  698. make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
  699. - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
  700. errors.
  701. - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
  702. as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
  703. Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
  704. the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
  705. - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
  706. - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
  707. it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
  708. - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
  709. consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
  710. - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
  711. hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
  712. - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
  713. Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
  714. - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
  715. about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
  716. - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
  717. Good in combination with --hash-password.
  718. - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
  719. ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
  720. yet.
  721. - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
  722. wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
  723. - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
  724. - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
  725. free-lists.
  726. - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
  727. - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
  728. message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
  729. OpenBSD or Windows or what.
  730. - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
  731. buffer type.
  732. - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
  733. logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
  734. - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
  735. try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
  736. makes the log messages nicer.
  737. - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
  738. "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
  739. o Contributed scripts and tools:
  740. - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
  741. the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
  742. Perry.
  743. - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
  744. Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
  745. adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
  746. - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
  747. server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
  748. a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
  749. explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
  750. connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
  751. - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
  752. operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
  753. o Newly deprecated features:
  754. - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
  755. GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
  756. protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
  757. - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
  758. o Removed features:
  759. - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
  760. corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
  761. feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
  762. - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
  763. since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
  764. eventdns code.
  765. - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
  766. - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
  767. bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
  768. 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
  769. if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
  770. downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
  771. - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
  772. it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
  773. 2004.
  774. - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
  775. from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
  776. assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
  777. send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
  778. - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
  779. and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
  780. more easily.
  781. - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
  782. and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
  783. and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
  784. - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
  785. them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
  786. patch from Karsten Loesing.
  787. - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
  788. We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
  789. to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
  790. - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
  791. that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
  792. arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
  793. code), this assumption no longer holds.
  794. - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
  795. obsolete.
  796. Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
  797. Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
  798. exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
  799. exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  800. o Security fixes:
  801. - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
  802. relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
  803. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
  804. many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
  805. on network address.
  806. o Major bugfixes:
  807. - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
  808. buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
  809. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
  810. on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
  811. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
  812. service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
  813. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
  814. requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
  815. crashing or mis-answering these requests.
  816. - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
  817. not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
  818. purpose. Fixes bug 539.
  819. o Minor bugfixes:
  820. - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
  821. rebuild our server descriptor.
  822. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
  823. networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
  824. unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
  825. - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
  826. in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
  827. nonstandard integer types.
  828. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
  829. --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
  830. - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
  831. directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
  832. that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
  833. by lodger.
  834. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
  835. responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
  836. that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
  837. when they receive them.
  838. - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
  839. This includes some 64-bit systems.
  840. - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
  841. the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
  842. from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
  843. - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
  844. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
  845. router_get_by_hexdigest().
  846. - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
  847. port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
  848. happened.
  849. Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
  850. Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
  851. hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
  852. bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
  853. lists for a few hours each day.
  854. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  855. - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
  856. happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
  857. connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
  858. "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
  859. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  860. - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
  861. rend_process_relay_cell().
  862. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  863. - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
  864. hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
  865. they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
  866. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
  867. connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
  868. digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
  869. changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
  870. o Major bugfixes (other):
  871. - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
  872. HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
  873. dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
  874. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
  875. as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
  876. circuit cannibalization).
  877. - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
  878. the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
  879. Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
  880. that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
  881. clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
  882. consensus. Fixes bug 529.
  883. o Minor bugfixes:
  884. - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
  885. --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
  886. bug 499.
  887. - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
  888. router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
  889. absent. Resolves bug 467.
  890. - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
  891. a way to trigger this remotely.)
  892. - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
  893. OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
  894. were reporting the dir port.)
  895. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
  896. command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
  897. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
  898. the future. Fixes bug 434.
  899. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
  900. in the future.
  901. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
  902. onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
  903. the onion key from getting rotated.
  904. - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
  905. this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
  906. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
  907. cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
  908. is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
  909. - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
  910. option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  911. Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
  912. Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
  913. X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
  914. ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
  915. security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
  916. should upgrade.
  917. In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
  918. path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
  919. have upgraded.
  920. o Major bugfixes (security):
  921. - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
  922. deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
  923. become more of a headache than it's worth.
  924. o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
  925. - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
  926. proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
  927. from Mike Perry.
  928. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
  929. will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
  930. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
  931. guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
  932. three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
  933. by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
  934. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
  935. - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
  936. they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
  937. some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
  938. circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
  939. o Minor features (controller):
  940. - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
  941. is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
  942. a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
  943. protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
  944. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  945. - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
  946. greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
  947. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
  948. the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
  949. its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
  950. two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
  951. powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
  952. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  953. - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
  954. use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
  955. Based on patch from Mike Perry.
  956. - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
  957. weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
  958. would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
  959. if we ran off the end of the list.
  960. - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
  961. cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
  962. where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
  963. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
  964. every time we change any piece of our config.
  965. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
  966. encourage people using them to stop.
  967. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
  968. from tup.
  969. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
  970. servers to choose a circuit.
  971. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
  972. unparseable piece of it.
  973. Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
  974. Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
  975. remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
  976. configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
  977. in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
  978. TorK, etc. Or worse.
  979. o Major security fixes:
  980. - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
  981. do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
  982. Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
  983. Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
  984. problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
  985. bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
  986. o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  987. - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
  988. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  989. - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
  990. an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
  991. - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
  992. routerlist while inserting a new router.
  993. - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
  994. don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
  995. from croup.)
  996. - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
  997. orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
  998. definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
  999. o Major bugfixes (security):
  1000. - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
  1001. found by croup.
  1002. - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
  1003. the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
  1004. and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
  1005. - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
  1006. bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
  1007. cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
  1008. - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
  1009. never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
  1010. guard list unless we need to.
  1011. o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
  1012. - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
  1013. don't get overused as guards.
  1014. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  1015. - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
  1016. version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
  1017. - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
  1018. once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
  1019. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  1020. - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
  1021. connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
  1022. Resolves bug 444.
  1023. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  1024. - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  1025. cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
  1026. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
  1027. bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
  1028. unlikely. Patch from lodger.
  1029. - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
  1030. - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
  1031. Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
  1032. Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
  1033. change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
  1034. and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
  1035. o Directory authority changes:
  1036. - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
  1037. IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
  1038. or use hidden services.
  1039. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  1040. - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
  1041. as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
  1042. but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
  1043. behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
  1044. - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
  1045. to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
  1046. - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
  1047. - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
  1048. by lodger.)
  1049. o Major bugfixes (security):
  1050. - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
  1051. that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
  1052. that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
  1053. o Major bugfixes (resource management):
  1054. - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
  1055. networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
  1056. every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
  1057. - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
  1058. don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
  1059. not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
  1060. - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
  1061. lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
  1062. think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
  1063. o Minor bugfixes:
  1064. - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
  1065. purpose=controller.
  1066. - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
  1067. we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
  1068. network-statuses.
  1069. - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
  1070. having a hard time downloading.
  1071. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  1072. partial results on small file reads.
  1073. - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
  1074. routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
  1075. the gaps in the store get very large.
  1076. o Minor features:
  1077. - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
  1078. authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
  1079. documents.
  1080. - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
  1081. OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
  1082. Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
  1083. This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
  1084. selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
  1085. address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
  1086. well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
  1087. other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
  1088. Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
  1089. of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
  1090. free speech on the Internet.
  1091. o Major features, client performance:
  1092. - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
  1093. let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
  1094. succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
  1095. choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
  1096. - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
  1097. middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
  1098. is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
  1099. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  1100. application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
  1101. 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  1102. that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  1103. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
  1104. to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
  1105. make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
  1106. unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
  1107. o Major features, client functionality:
  1108. - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
  1109. server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
  1110. plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
  1111. config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
  1112. you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
  1113. - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
  1114. bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
  1115. mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
  1116. can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
  1117. through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
  1118. - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
  1119. 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
  1120. SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
  1121. o Major features, servers:
  1122. - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
  1123. with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
  1124. asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
  1125. would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
  1126. authenticated, so use with care.
  1127. - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
  1128. and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
  1129. masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
  1130. lots of memory.
  1131. - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
  1132. checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
  1133. that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
  1134. to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
  1135. in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
  1136. easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
  1137. o Improvements on DNS support:
  1138. - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
  1139. from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
  1140. concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
  1141. multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
  1142. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  1143. records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  1144. IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
  1145. now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
  1146. - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
  1147. DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
  1148. redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
  1149. DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
  1150. RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
  1151. lets you turn it off.
  1152. - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
  1153. wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
  1154. their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
  1155. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
  1156. requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
  1157. useful to the network.
  1158. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  1159. useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  1160. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
  1161. lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
  1162. - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
  1163. our tests for DNS hijacking.
  1164. o Improvements on reachability testing:
  1165. - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
  1166. established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
  1167. so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
  1168. bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
  1169. - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  1170. so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  1171. - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
  1172. if their identity keys are as expected.
  1173. - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
  1174. chews through many circuits before giving up.
  1175. - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
  1176. to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
  1177. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  1178. to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  1179. we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  1180. other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  1181. - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  1182. authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  1183. long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  1184. connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  1185. more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  1186. 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  1187. o Improvements on rate limiting:
  1188. - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
  1189. capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
  1190. than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
  1191. - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
  1192. would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
  1193. to send them.
  1194. - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
  1195. they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
  1196. more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
  1197. - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
  1198. - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
  1199. connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
  1200. - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
  1201. writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
  1202. trying to flush.
  1203. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  1204. a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  1205. o Major features, NT services:
  1206. - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
  1207. command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
  1208. "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
  1209. existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
  1210. will look for its configuration file in the service user's
  1211. %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
  1212. directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
  1213. directory.)
  1214. - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
  1215. directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
  1216. the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
  1217. from Matt Edman.
  1218. - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
  1219. get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
  1220. exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
  1221. command line.
  1222. - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
  1223. stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
  1224. o Directory authority improvements:
  1225. - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
  1226. bandwidth cutoffs.
  1227. - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
  1228. - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
  1229. too much load to the exit nodes.
  1230. - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
  1231. about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
  1232. clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
  1233. The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
  1234. protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
  1235. - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
  1236. clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
  1237. having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
  1238. moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
  1239. - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
  1240. can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
  1241. broken. Not used yet.
  1242. - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
  1243. approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
  1244. authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
  1245. of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
  1246. that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
  1247. - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
  1248. non-versioning dirservers.
  1249. - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
  1250. without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
  1251. restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
  1252. per day.
  1253. - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
  1254. a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
  1255. authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
  1256. clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
  1257. o Directory mirrors and clients:
  1258. - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
  1259. directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
  1260. - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
  1261. dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
  1262. gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
  1263. - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
  1264. longer count the failure against the total number of failures
  1265. allowed for the object we're trying to download.
  1266. - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
  1267. discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
  1268. recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
  1269. the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
  1270. routers for even longer.
  1271. - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
  1272. headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
  1273. caching HTTP proxies.
  1274. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  1275. haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
  1276. causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  1277. you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
  1278. o Major fixes, crashes:
  1279. - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
  1280. one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
  1281. - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
  1282. out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
  1283. bug 390.)
  1284. - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
  1285. cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
  1286. - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
  1287. stream is detached.
  1288. - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
  1289. uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
  1290. - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
  1291. service circuits (reported by mwenge).
  1292. - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
  1293. and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
  1294. - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
  1295. handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
  1296. on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
  1297. - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
  1298. o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
  1299. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  1300. /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
  1301. "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
  1302. want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
  1303. - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
  1304. 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
  1305. - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
  1306. keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
  1307. we never stay up for a week ourselves.
  1308. - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
  1309. in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
  1310. could return an unnamed server instead.
  1311. - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
  1312. many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
  1313. a more attractive target for compromise.)
  1314. - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
  1315. able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
  1316. only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
  1317. - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
  1318. Stefan Nordhausen.
  1319. - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
  1320. connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
  1321. o Major fixes, other:
  1322. - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
  1323. uptime in the descriptor.
  1324. - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
  1325. up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
  1326. - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
  1327. indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
  1328. discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
  1329. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  1330. move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  1331. Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  1332. the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  1333. - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  1334. if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  1335. our DirPort now, etc.
  1336. - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  1337. its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  1338. back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  1339. o New config options or behaviors:
  1340. - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
  1341. in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
  1342. EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
  1343. - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
  1344. ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
  1345. are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
  1346. - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
  1347. - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
  1348. the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
  1349. for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  1350. - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
  1351. disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
  1352. a timely fashion.
  1353. - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
  1354. the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
  1355. - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
  1356. - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
  1357. accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
  1358. options files.
  1359. - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
  1360. NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
  1361. - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
  1362. avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
  1363. AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
  1364. is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
  1365. - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
  1366. and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
  1367. setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
  1368. - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
  1369. 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
  1370. SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
  1371. to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
  1372. - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
  1373. - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
  1374. suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
  1375. - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
  1376. choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
  1377. - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
  1378. directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
  1379. if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
  1380. the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
  1381. - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
  1382. for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
  1383. as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
  1384. authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
  1385. to continue being hidden service authorities too.
  1386. - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
  1387. - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
  1388. ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
  1389. an address.
  1390. - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  1391. descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  1392. your ORPort is set.
  1393. o Docs:
  1394. - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
  1395. new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
  1396. versions too.
  1397. - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
  1398. addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
  1399. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  1400. and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  1401. o Packaging, porting, and contrib
  1402. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  1403. whether the config options are bad or good.
  1404. - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
  1405. to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
  1406. - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
  1407. take arguments rather than require direct editing.
  1408. - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
  1409. result more than once.
  1410. - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
  1411. - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
  1412. esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
  1413. - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
  1414. values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
  1415. - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
  1416. - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
  1417. Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
  1418. before we check for libevent.
  1419. - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
  1420. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  1421. or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  1422. it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  1423. win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  1424. recommendation system saner.)
  1425. - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
  1426. define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
  1427. - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
  1428. now universal binaries.
  1429. - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
  1430. - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
  1431. for sure!)
  1432. - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
  1433. and many others).
  1434. - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  1435. - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
  1436. ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
  1437. then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
  1438. - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
  1439. bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
  1440. o Minor features, controller:
  1441. - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
  1442. control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
  1443. the next development series, so it's good to give people some
  1444. advance warning.
  1445. - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
  1446. use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  1447. - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
  1448. impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
  1449. mwenge; closes bug 394.)
  1450. - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
  1451. address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
  1452. directive.
  1453. - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
  1454. make them generated in every case where we get a successful
  1455. connected or resolved cell.
  1456. - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
  1457. available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
  1458. - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
  1459. can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
  1460. - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
  1461. - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
  1462. - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
  1463. actual keys.
  1464. - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
  1465. - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
  1466. entry guard status as it changes.
  1467. - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
  1468. immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
  1469. successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
  1470. watching for STREAM events.
  1471. - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
  1472. field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
  1473. event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
  1474. a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
  1475. Mike Perry)
  1476. - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
  1477. controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
  1478. - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
  1479. working much like those for circuit events.
  1480. - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
  1481. about the current status of a router.
  1482. - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
  1483. a router's status has changed.
  1484. - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
  1485. can tell which events and features are supported.
  1486. - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
  1487. client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
  1488. - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
  1489. identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
  1490. - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
  1491. of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
  1492. for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
  1493. and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
  1494. for more information.
  1495. - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
  1496. best guess to the user.
  1497. - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
  1498. descriptor has changed.
  1499. - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
  1500. - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  1501. don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  1502. o Minor bugfixes, controller:
  1503. - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
  1504. event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
  1505. - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
  1506. to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
  1507. - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
  1508. implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
  1509. ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
  1510. - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
  1511. clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
  1512. that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
  1513. 3 of bug 367.)
  1514. - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
  1515. protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
  1516. "INTERNAL".
  1517. - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
  1518. we finally get the IP from an exit node.
  1519. - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
  1520. long.
  1521. - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
  1522. flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
  1523. the controller from learning about current events.
  1524. - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
  1525. reported by Mike Perry.
  1526. - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
  1527. when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
  1528. - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
  1529. controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
  1530. - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
  1531. about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
  1532. long nicknames where appropriate.
  1533. - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
  1534. make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
  1535. not requested.
  1536. - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
  1537. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
  1538. - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
  1539. the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
  1540. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  1541. o Minor features, code performance:
  1542. - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
  1543. algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  1544. - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
  1545. time.
  1546. - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
  1547. some profiles, but not others.)
  1548. - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
  1549. arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
  1550. (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
  1551. - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
  1552. operations, for profiling.
  1553. - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  1554. malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  1555. - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  1556. split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  1557. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  1558. also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  1559. - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
  1560. This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
  1561. o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
  1562. - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
  1563. - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
  1564. no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
  1565. in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
  1566. we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
  1567. - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
  1568. even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
  1569. family lists conveniently.
  1570. o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
  1571. - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
  1572. recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
  1573. - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
  1574. DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
  1575. - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
  1576. For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
  1577. its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
  1578. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  1579. such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  1580. - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  1581. when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  1582. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  1583. as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  1584. of it), is not therefore "up".
  1585. o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
  1586. - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
  1587. what version a router is running.
  1588. - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
  1589. "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
  1590. secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
  1591. - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
  1592. preceded by "opt".
  1593. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  1594. to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  1595. - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  1596. actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  1597. - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
  1598. changed.
  1599. o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
  1600. - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
  1601. whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
  1602. bug 373.)
  1603. - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
  1604. time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
  1605. time it is now.
  1606. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  1607. throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  1608. handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  1609. goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  1610. - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
  1611. handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
  1612. days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
  1613. - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
  1614. "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
  1615. - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
  1616. unstable ones.
  1617. - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
  1618. 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
  1619. authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
  1620. but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
  1621. - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
  1622. 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
  1623. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  1624. - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
  1625. get one we don't recognize.
  1626. Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
  1627. o Security bugfixes:
  1628. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  1629. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  1630. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  1631. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  1632. is set.
  1633. o Minor bugfixes:
  1634. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  1635. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  1636. unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  1637. Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
  1638. o Major bugfixes:
  1639. - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
  1640. an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
  1641. answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  1642. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
  1643. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  1644. its circuits on demand.
  1645. - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
  1646. require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
  1647. we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
  1648. connections more stable on average.
  1649. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  1650. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  1651. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  1652. o Security bugfixes:
  1653. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  1654. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  1655. o Minor bugfixes:
  1656. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  1657. the first time.
  1658. - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
  1659. certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
  1660. handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  1661. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  1662. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  1663. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  1664. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  1665. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  1666. Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
  1667. o Major bugfixes:
  1668. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  1669. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  1670. - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
  1671. whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
  1672. do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
  1673. This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
  1674. - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
  1675. it can't resolve its hostname.
  1676. - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
  1677. and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  1678. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  1679. o Minor bugfixes:
  1680. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  1681. - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
  1682. "extendcircuit" request.
  1683. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  1684. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  1685. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  1686. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  1687. voodoo.
  1688. - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
  1689. uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
  1690. only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
  1691. tolower().
  1692. - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
  1693. methods: these are known to be buggy.
  1694. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  1695. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  1696. we don't recognize.
  1697. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  1698. o Major bugfixes:
  1699. - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  1700. due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  1701. bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  1702. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  1703. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  1704. then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  1705. circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  1706. changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  1707. test reachability, so you won't publish.
  1708. o Minor bugfixes:
  1709. - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  1710. and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  1711. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  1712. a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  1713. a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  1714. later than now.
  1715. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  1716. own server descriptor yet.
  1717. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  1718. o Major bugfixes:
  1719. - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  1720. reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  1721. servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  1722. make sure to test via one of these.
  1723. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  1724. descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  1725. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  1726. descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  1727. servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  1728. o Minor bugfixes:
  1729. - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  1730. "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  1731. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  1732. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  1733. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  1734. - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  1735. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  1736. directory authority.
  1737. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  1738. while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  1739. exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  1740. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  1741. o Other fixes:
  1742. - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  1743. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  1744. first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  1745. right after that.
  1746. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  1747. and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  1748. again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  1749. current guards when picking a new guard.
  1750. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  1751. is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  1752. when we had more than one pending.
  1753. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  1754. Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  1755. a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  1756. - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  1757. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  1758. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  1759. mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  1760. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  1761. middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  1762. debug the reachability problems better.
  1763. o Log / documentation fixes:
  1764. - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  1765. log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  1766. about protocol violations by others.
  1767. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  1768. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  1769. about what happened to our old torrc.
  1770. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  1771. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
  1772. - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
  1773. logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  1774. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  1775. and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
  1776. Palfrader).
  1777. - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  1778. a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  1779. "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
  1780. - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  1781. out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  1782. - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  1783. your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
  1784. HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  1785. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
  1786. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  1787. to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  1788. on malicious huge inputs.
  1789. o Security fixes, major:
  1790. - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  1791. non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
  1792. sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
  1793. misreading their logs.
  1794. - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
  1795. nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  1796. when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  1797. become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  1798. dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  1799. config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  1800. want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  1801. Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
  1802. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  1803. destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  1804. which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  1805. that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  1806. authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  1807. use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  1808. if you can.
  1809. - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
  1810. . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  1811. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  1812. firewall options forbid.
  1813. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  1814. firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  1815. can only proxy to certain destinations.
  1816. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  1817. - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  1818. out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  1819. through privoxy.
  1820. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  1821. keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  1822. each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  1823. periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  1824. - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  1825. node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  1826. already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
  1827. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  1828. are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
  1829. to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
  1830. preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
  1831. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  1832. was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
  1833. o Security fixes, minor:
  1834. - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
  1835. Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  1836. easily.
  1837. - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
  1838. mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
  1839. is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  1840. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  1841. if we've not heard of a server.
  1842. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  1843. OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  1844. startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  1845. - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
  1846. the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  1847. humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  1848. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  1849. don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
  1850. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  1851. circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  1852. introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  1853. useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  1854. aids some statistical attacks.
  1855. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  1856. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  1857. have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  1858. exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  1859. - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  1860. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  1861. service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  1862. back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  1863. that anyway.
  1864. o Packaging improvements:
  1865. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
  1866. search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  1867. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
  1868. there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  1869. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  1870. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
  1871. "-Wall -g -O2".
  1872. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  1873. run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  1874. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  1875. the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  1876. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  1877. Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  1878. target arch.
  1879. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  1880. if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  1881. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  1882. connections.
  1883. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  1884. tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  1885. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
  1886. They are useless now.
  1887. - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
  1888. easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
  1889. is reachable by you.
  1890. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  1891. Thoenen.
  1892. o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
  1893. - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
  1894. - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
  1895. digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
  1896. - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
  1897. download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
  1898. fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  1899. - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
  1900. - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
  1901. download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
  1902. download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
  1903. and isolating attacks better.
  1904. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  1905. hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  1906. - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
  1907. haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  1908. tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  1909. minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  1910. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  1911. not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  1912. go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  1913. to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
  1914. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  1915. are known.
  1916. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  1917. can answer v2 directory requests too.
  1918. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  1919. docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
  1920. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  1921. mirrors still cache and serve it).
  1922. - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
  1923. before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  1924. - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
  1925. for clients and for servers.
  1926. - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  1927. - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  1928. without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  1929. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  1930. support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  1931. to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  1932. - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
  1933. reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
  1934. - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
  1935. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  1936. authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  1937. o Other directory improvements:
  1938. - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
  1939. fifth authoritative directory servers.
  1940. - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
  1941. a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  1942. when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
  1943. to hang up on them.
  1944. - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
  1945. of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
  1946. be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  1947. it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  1948. - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
  1949. entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
  1950. every 20 minutes.
  1951. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  1952. the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  1953. attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  1954. to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  1955. connections more reliable.
  1956. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  1957. like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  1958. top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  1959. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  1960. from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  1961. we fail to connect).
  1962. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  1963. o Controller protocol improvements:
  1964. - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  1965. than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
  1966. in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
  1967. applications without caring how our protocol works.
  1968. - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  1969. entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  1970. - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  1971. many bytes we've used in this time period.
  1972. - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
  1973. AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  1974. a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  1975. entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  1976. - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
  1977. expose guard nodes, config options/names.
  1978. - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
  1979. - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
  1980. stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
  1981. don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
  1982. or "signal reload".
  1983. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  1984. we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  1985. option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  1986. - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
  1987. controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
  1988. a router in its role as directory authority.
  1989. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  1990. latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  1991. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  1992. it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  1993. .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  1994. that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  1995. - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
  1996. the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  1997. changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  1998. worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  1999. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  2000. for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
  2001. controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
  2002. a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
  2003. let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
  2004. - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
  2005. directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
  2006. dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
  2007. is enabled.
  2008. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  2009. that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  2010. "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
  2011. - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  2012. message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
  2013. just tell them to go read their logs.
  2014. o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
  2015. - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
  2016. chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  2017. a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  2018. try to be a bit more fair.
  2019. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  2020. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  2021. and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
  2022. and we're using a default DirPort.
  2023. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  2024. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  2025. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  2026. build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  2027. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  2028. services faster on the service end.
  2029. - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
  2030. remove them.
  2031. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  2032. warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  2033. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  2034. server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  2035. line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  2036. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  2037. of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
  2038. bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
  2039. abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
  2040. in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  2041. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  2042. truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  2043. descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  2044. purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  2045. - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  2046. 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  2047. translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  2048. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  2049. of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  2050. - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  2051. Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  2052. - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
  2053. might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
  2054. - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  2055. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  2056. o Other bugfixes and improvements:
  2057. - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
  2058. remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
  2059. lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
  2060. so we can be backward-compatible.
  2061. - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
  2062. resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
  2063. if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
  2064. themselves as localhost can guess their address.
  2065. - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  2066. it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  2067. This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
  2068. initial descriptor forever.
  2069. - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  2070. hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  2071. the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  2072. the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  2073. rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  2074. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  2075. reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  2076. has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  2077. servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  2078. high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  2079. suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  2080. - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  2081. circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  2082. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  2083. connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  2084. space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  2085. feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  2086. been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  2087. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  2088. socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
  2089. leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
  2090. - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
  2091. - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  2092. closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  2093. ports that have changed.
  2094. - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
  2095. requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
  2096. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  2097. broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  2098. connections once a week.
  2099. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  2100. would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  2101. servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  2102. - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  2103. string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  2104. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  2105. get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  2106. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  2107. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  2108. able to discover them.
  2109. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
  2110. want to make it an NT service.
  2111. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  2112. running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  2113. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
  2114. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  2115. memory leaks better.
  2116. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  2117. use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  2118. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
  2119. statistics are now uint64_t's.
  2120. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  2121. log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  2122. Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  2123. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  2124. our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  2125. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  2126. so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  2127. default ulimit -n is 1024.
  2128. - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  2129. and its existence is confusing some users.
  2130. o Config option fixes:
  2131. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
  2132. to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  2133. addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  2134. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
  2135. - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
  2136. that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
  2137. for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
  2138. - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  2139. since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  2140. or port.
  2141. - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  2142. we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  2143. This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  2144. November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
  2145. - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  2146. torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  2147. it would silently ignore the 6668.
  2148. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
  2149. e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  2150. silently resetting it to its default.
  2151. - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  2152. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
  2153. will be more likely to learn that it exists.
  2154. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  2155. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  2156. config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  2157. that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  2158. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  2159. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  2160. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  2161. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  2162. - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
  2163. Address config option.
  2164. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  2165. reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  2166. o Config option features:
  2167. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  2168. do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  2169. already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  2170. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  2171. dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  2172. makes sense.
  2173. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  2174. and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  2175. info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  2176. PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  2177. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  2178. option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  2179. Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  2180. - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
  2181. accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
  2182. smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
  2183. in at least some cases.)
  2184. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
  2185. as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  2186. revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  2187. - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
  2188. with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
  2189. by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
  2190. nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
  2191. currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
  2192. even if we know they're jerks.
  2193. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
  2194. applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  2195. socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  2196. with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  2197. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  2198. you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  2199. every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  2200. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  2201. because older Tors do not understand it.
  2202. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  2203. moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
  2204. - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  2205. get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  2206. around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  2207. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  2208. for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  2209. to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  2210. - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  2211. unattached before we fail it?
  2212. - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  2213. at least this many seconds ago.
  2214. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  2215. at least this many seconds ago.
  2216. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  2217. using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  2218. o Improved and clearer log messages:
  2219. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  2220. them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  2221. lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  2222. by default.
  2223. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  2224. of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  2225. log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  2226. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  2227. have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  2228. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
  2229. move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  2230. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  2231. temporarily unreachable.
  2232. - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  2233. Windows-style errno back.
  2234. - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  2235. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  2236. culling them.
  2237. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  2238. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  2239. even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
  2240. exactly for this case.
  2241. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  2242. warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
  2243. don't warn twice about the same name.
  2244. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  2245. unreachability.
  2246. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  2247. it was self-testing that told us so.
  2248. - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  2249. as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  2250. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  2251. the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  2252. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  2253. will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  2254. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  2255. log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  2256. - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  2257. circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
  2258. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  2259. established a circuit.
  2260. - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  2261. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
  2262. lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  2263. and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  2264. since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  2265. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  2266. rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  2267. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  2268. "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  2269. - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  2270. line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  2271. - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
  2272. descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
  2273. a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  2274. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  2275. a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  2276. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  2277. server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  2278. we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  2279. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  2280. as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  2281. testing for reachability.
  2282. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  2283. more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  2284. to the torrc.
  2285. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
  2286. Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  2287. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2288. - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  2289. sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  2290. o Other important bugfixes:
  2291. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  2292. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  2293. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  2294. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  2295. o Backported features:
  2296. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  2297. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  2298. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  2299. without getting overloaded.
  2300. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  2301. once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  2302. 503's whenever they feel busy.
  2303. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  2304. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  2305. directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  2306. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  2307. from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  2308. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  2309. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2310. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  2311. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  2312. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  2313. - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  2314. too -- so detect and avoid this.
  2315. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  2316. giving an error).
  2317. - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  2318. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  2319. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  2320. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  2321. don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  2322. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  2323. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  2324. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  2325. rendezvous circuits.
  2326. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  2327. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2328. - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  2329. messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  2330. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  2331. advertising it because of hibernation.
  2332. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  2333. - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
  2334. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  2335. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  2336. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  2337. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  2338. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  2339. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  2340. the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  2341. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  2342. - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  2343. exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  2344. policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  2345. as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  2346. reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  2347. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  2348. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2349. - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  2350. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  2351. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  2352. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  2353. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  2354. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  2355. be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  2356. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  2357. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  2358. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  2359. - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  2360. most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  2361. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  2362. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  2363. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2364. - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  2365. (CVE-2005-2643).
  2366. - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  2367. controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  2368. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  2369. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2370. - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  2371. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  2372. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  2373. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  2374. pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  2375. in the start menu.
  2376. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  2377. new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  2378. not-broken.
  2379. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  2380. o New directory servers:
  2381. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  2382. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2383. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  2384. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  2385. pthreads libraries.
  2386. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  2387. claims its dirport is 0.
  2388. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  2389. getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  2390. Edman for the fix.
  2391. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  2392. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  2393. - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  2394. exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  2395. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  2396. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  2397. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  2398. - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  2399. Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  2400. o Fixes on Win32:
  2401. - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
  2402. patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
  2403. - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
  2404. servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
  2405. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  2406. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
  2407. means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
  2408. has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  2409. - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
  2410. file.
  2411. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  2412. Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  2413. o Assert / crash bugs:
  2414. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  2415. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  2416. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  2417. (CVE-2005-2050).
  2418. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  2419. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  2420. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  2421. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
  2422. pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
  2423. o Resource leaks:
  2424. - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
  2425. forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
  2426. duplicate ram over time.
  2427. - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
  2428. reentry and threadsafeness.
  2429. - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  2430. netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
  2431. resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
  2432. threading issues.
  2433. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  2434. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  2435. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  2436. point at your Tor server.
  2437. - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
  2438. Adam Langley.)
  2439. - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
  2440. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  2441. we're leaking.
  2442. o Protocol correctness:
  2443. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  2444. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  2445. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  2446. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
  2447. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  2448. to abandon partially built circuits.
  2449. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  2450. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  2451. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  2452. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  2453. descriptors we just dropped.
  2454. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  2455. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
  2456. and to take errno into account where possible.
  2457. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  2458. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  2459. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  2460. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  2461. o Robustness improvements:
  2462. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  2463. - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
  2464. nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  2465. appropriate nodes.
  2466. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  2467. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  2468. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  2469. that will want high uptime circuits.
  2470. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  2471. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  2472. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  2473. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  2474. - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
  2475. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  2476. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  2477. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  2478. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  2479. - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
  2480. we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
  2481. make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
  2482. make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
  2483. circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  2484. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  2485. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  2486. for google.com" problem.
  2487. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  2488. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  2489. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  2490. these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  2491. provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  2492. clients yet.
  2493. o Reachability testing.
  2494. - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
  2495. DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
  2496. descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
  2497. DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
  2498. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  2499. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  2500. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  2501. - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
  2502. they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
  2503. already connected to them.
  2504. - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
  2505. or later.
  2506. o Dirserver fixes:
  2507. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  2508. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  2509. nickname+key are allowed.
  2510. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  2511. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  2512. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  2513. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  2514. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  2515. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  2516. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  2517. have quite wrong clocks).
  2518. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  2519. addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  2520. IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  2521. their descriptors are being rejected.
  2522. o Efficiency improvements:
  2523. - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
  2524. and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
  2525. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
  2526. kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
  2527. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  2528. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  2529. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  2530. after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  2531. if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  2532. assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  2533. error message.
  2534. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  2535. reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  2536. it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  2537. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  2538. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  2539. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  2540. OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  2541. OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  2542. of CPU time plus memory.
  2543. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  2544. directory every time you regenerate it.
  2545. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  2546. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  2547. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  2548. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  2549. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  2550. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  2551. lowercase when you first see them.
  2552. o Hidden services:
  2553. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  2554. hidden services better.
  2555. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  2556. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  2557. when we try to launch one.
  2558. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
  2559. after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
  2560. attempts to build a circuit.
  2561. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  2562. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  2563. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  2564. normal web requests.
  2565. o Controller:
  2566. - More Tor controller support. See
  2567. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  2568. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  2569. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  2570. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  2571. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  2572. to make it easier to write controllers.
  2573. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  2574. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  2575. Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
  2576. log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
  2577. new log event types.
  2578. o New config options/defaults:
  2579. - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  2580. the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  2581. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  2582. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  2583. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  2584. exit policy.
  2585. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  2586. config option.
  2587. - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
  2588. based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
  2589. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  2590. the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
  2591. willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
  2592. capacity too.)
  2593. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  2594. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  2595. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  2596. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  2597. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  2598. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  2599. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  2600. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  2601. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  2602. required exit node for certain sites.
  2603. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  2604. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  2605. your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  2606. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  2607. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  2608. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  2609. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  2610. - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
  2611. a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
  2612. servers).
  2613. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
  2614. on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
  2615. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  2616. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  2617. private-IP addresses.
  2618. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  2619. smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
  2620. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
  2621. a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  2622. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  2623. LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  2624. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  2625. is valid without actually launching Tor.
  2626. o Logging improvements:
  2627. - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
  2628. contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  2629. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
  2630. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  2631. yell so much.
  2632. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  2633. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  2634. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  2635. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  2636. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  2637. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  2638. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  2639. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  2640. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  2641. wrong.
  2642. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  2643. it was.
  2644. - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  2645. already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  2646. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  2647. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  2648. - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  2649. pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
  2650. o New contrib scripts:
  2651. - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
  2652. script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  2653. addresses/ports.
  2654. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  2655. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  2656. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  2657. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  2658. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  2659. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  2660. via addresses like
  2661. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  2662. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  2663. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  2664. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  2665. on FreeBSD)
  2666. o Misc bugfixes:
  2667. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  2668. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  2669. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  2670. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  2671. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  2672. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  2673. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  2674. the socks reject.
  2675. - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
  2676. something more reasonable when first installing.
  2677. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  2678. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  2679. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  2680. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  2681. get the nodes.
  2682. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  2683. artificially capped at 500kB.
  2684. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  2685. addresses.
  2686. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  2687. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  2688. they could use instead.
  2689. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  2690. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
  2691. installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  2692. the user asks you to.
  2693. o Misc features:
  2694. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
  2695. rather than just rejecting it.
  2696. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  2697. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  2698. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  2699. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  2700. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  2701. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  2702. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  2703. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  2704. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  2705. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  2706. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  2707. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  2708. the same series.
  2709. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  2710. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  2711. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  2712. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  2713. they're malformed.
  2714. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  2715. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  2716. for now.
  2717. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  2718. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  2719. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  2720. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  2721. come later.
  2722. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  2723. whether the server is hibernating.
  2724. Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  2725. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  2726. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  2727. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  2728. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  2729. (CVE-2005-2050).
  2730. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  2731. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  2732. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  2733. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  2734. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  2735. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  2736. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  2737. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  2738. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  2739. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  2740. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  2741. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  2742. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  2743. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  2744. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  2745. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  2746. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  2747. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  2748. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  2749. creating actual system users.
  2750. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  2751. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  2752. in 0.1.0.x).
  2753. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  2754. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  2755. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  2756. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  2757. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  2758. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  2759. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  2760. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  2761. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  2762. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  2763. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  2764. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  2765. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  2766. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  2767. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  2768. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  2769. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  2770. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  2771. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  2772. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  2773. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  2774. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  2775. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  2776. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  2777. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  2778. existing torrc files.
  2779. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  2780. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  2781. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  2782. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  2783. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  2784. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  2785. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  2786. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  2787. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  2788. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  2789. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  2790. file descriptors available.
  2791. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  2792. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  2793. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  2794. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  2795. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  2796. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  2797. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  2798. freak out.
  2799. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  2800. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  2801. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  2802. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  2803. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  2804. logs, etc.
  2805. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  2806. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  2807. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  2808. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  2809. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  2810. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  2811. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  2812. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  2813. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  2814. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  2815. 800kB/s of capacity.
  2816. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  2817. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  2818. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  2819. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  2820. need as much processor time.
  2821. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  2822. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  2823. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  2824. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  2825. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  2826. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  2827. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  2828. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  2829. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  2830. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  2831. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  2832. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  2833. resetting.
  2834. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  2835. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  2836. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  2837. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  2838. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  2839. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  2840. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  2841. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  2842. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  2843. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  2844. to a file.
  2845. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  2846. style address, then we'd crash.
  2847. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  2848. a dirserver is broken.
  2849. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  2850. may work better.
  2851. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  2852. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  2853. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  2854. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  2855. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  2856. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  2857. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  2858. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  2859. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  2860. take any away.
  2861. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  2862. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  2863. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  2864. DataDirectory.
  2865. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  2866. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  2867. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  2868. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  2869. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  2870. values at once couldn't work.
  2871. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  2872. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  2873. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  2874. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  2875. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  2876. they can handle any number of routers.
  2877. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  2878. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  2879. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  2880. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  2881. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  2882. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  2883. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  2884. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  2885. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  2886. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  2887. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  2888. - Make hibernation actually work.
  2889. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  2890. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  2891. don't use the stream status code.
  2892. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  2893. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  2894. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  2895. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  2896. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  2897. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  2898. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  2899. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  2900. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  2901. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  2902. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  2903. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  2904. bit platforms.
  2905. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  2906. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  2907. win32 socket errors better.
  2908. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  2909. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  2910. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  2911. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  2912. happier.
  2913. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  2914. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  2915. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  2916. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  2917. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  2918. right after sending the begin cell.
  2919. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  2920. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  2921. exit nodes too. Oops.
  2922. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  2923. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  2924. the user would get no response.
  2925. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  2926. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  2927. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  2928. forever.
  2929. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  2930. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  2931. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  2932. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  2933. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  2934. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  2935. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  2936. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  2937. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  2938. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  2939. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  2940. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  2941. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  2942. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  2943. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  2944. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  2945. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  2946. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  2947. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  2948. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  2949. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  2950. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  2951. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  2952. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  2953. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  2954. so we don't see those messages days later.
  2955. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  2956. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  2957. bug).
  2958. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  2959. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  2960. they ran out of file descriptors.
  2961. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  2962. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  2963. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  2964. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  2965. recent enough.
  2966. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  2967. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  2968. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  2969. the ones we find in directories.)
  2970. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  2971. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  2972. if you don't want it open.
  2973. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  2974. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  2975. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  2976. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  2977. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  2978. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  2979. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  2980. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  2981. overflow behavior.
  2982. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  2983. hey.)
  2984. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  2985. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  2986. o Features (circuits and streams):
  2987. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  2988. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  2989. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  2990. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  2991. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  2992. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  2993. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  2994. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  2995. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  2996. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  2997. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  2998. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  2999. from Geoff Goodell.
  3000. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  3001. pick it anyway.
  3002. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  3003. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  3004. to fill the last cell completely.
  3005. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  3006. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  3007. o Features (bandwidth):
  3008. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  3009. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  3010. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  3011. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  3012. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  3013. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  3014. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  3015. your billing cycle starts on.
  3016. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  3017. hibernation properties by
  3018. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  3019. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  3020. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  3021. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  3022. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  3023. o Features (directories):
  3024. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  3025. nickname to its identity key.
  3026. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  3027. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  3028. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  3029. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  3030. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  3031. appropriate.
  3032. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  3033. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  3034. running-routers.z
  3035. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  3036. will be able to get a directory.
  3037. - Http proxy support
  3038. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  3039. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  3040. be routed through this host.
  3041. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  3042. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  3043. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  3044. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  3045. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  3046. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  3047. o Features (packages and install):
  3048. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  3049. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  3050. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  3051. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  3052. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  3053. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  3054. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  3055. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  3056. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  3057. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  3058. is broken.
  3059. o Features (ui controller):
  3060. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  3061. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  3062. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  3063. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  3064. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  3065. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  3066. with the control port.
  3067. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  3068. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  3069. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  3070. configuration to torrc.
  3071. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  3072. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  3073. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  3074. o Features (config and command-line):
  3075. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  3076. not on the command line.
  3077. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  3078. options.
  3079. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  3080. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  3081. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  3082. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  3083. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  3084. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  3085. - New log format in config:
  3086. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  3087. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  3088. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  3089. from their dirserver.
  3090. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  3091. and then exit.
  3092. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  3093. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  3094. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  3095. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  3096. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  3097. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  3098. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  3099. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  3100. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  3101. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  3102. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  3103. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  3104. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  3105. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  3106. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  3107. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  3108. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  3109. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  3110. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  3111. than once per minute.
  3112. o Features (other):
  3113. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  3114. get back to normal.)
  3115. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  3116. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  3117. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  3118. log more informatively.
  3119. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  3120. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  3121. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  3122. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  3123. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  3124. them act more like real nodes.
  3125. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  3126. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  3127. 1024) file descriptors.
  3128. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  3129. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  3130. o Bugfixes:
  3131. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  3132. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  3133. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  3134. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  3135. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  3136. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  3137. intermittent connections.
  3138. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  3139. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  3140. reattaches.
  3141. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  3142. in reporting stats locally.
  3143. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  3144. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  3145. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  3146. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  3147. o Bugfixes:
  3148. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  3149. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  3150. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  3151. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  3152. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  3153. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  3154. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  3155. list to decide who's running.
  3156. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  3157. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  3158. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  3159. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  3160. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  3161. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  3162. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  3163. for pointing out this bug.)
  3164. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  3165. directory.
  3166. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  3167. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  3168. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  3169. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  3170. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  3171. o Protocol changes:
  3172. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  3173. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  3174. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  3175. hadn't heard of before.
  3176. o Features:
  3177. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  3178. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  3179. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  3180. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  3181. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  3182. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  3183. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  3184. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  3185. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  3186. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  3187. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  3188. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  3189. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  3190. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  3191. - Directory caching.
  3192. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  3193. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  3194. directory they've pulled down.
  3195. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  3196. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  3197. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  3198. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  3199. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  3200. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  3201. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  3202. by hash-of-key).
  3203. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  3204. This isn't used yet.
  3205. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  3206. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  3207. clients don't use this yet.)
  3208. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  3209. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  3210. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  3211. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  3212. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  3213. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  3214. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  3215. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  3216. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  3217. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  3218. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  3219. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  3220. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  3221. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  3222. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  3223. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  3224. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  3225. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  3226. - File and name management:
  3227. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  3228. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  3229. as datadir.
  3230. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  3231. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  3232. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  3233. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  3234. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  3235. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  3236. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  3237. to use.
  3238. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  3239. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  3240. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  3241. locally.
  3242. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  3243. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  3244. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  3245. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  3246. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  3247. - New docs in the tarball:
  3248. - tor-doc.html.
  3249. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  3250. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  3251. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  3252. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  3253. know you might want to get it verified.
  3254. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  3255. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  3256. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  3257. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  3258. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  3259. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  3260. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  3261. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  3262. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  3263. "GET /".
  3264. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  3265. an exitnode.
  3266. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  3267. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  3268. or exit nodes.
  3269. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  3270. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  3271. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  3272. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  3273. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  3274. ask them to resolve the host "".
  3275. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  3276. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  3277. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  3278. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  3279. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  3280. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  3281. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  3282. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  3283. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  3284. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  3285. them.
  3286. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  3287. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  3288. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  3289. exit nodes.
  3290. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  3291. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  3292. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  3293. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  3294. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  3295. o Fixes for security bugs:
  3296. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  3297. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  3298. a trusted dirserver.
  3299. o Other bugfixes:
  3300. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  3301. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  3302. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  3303. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  3304. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  3305. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  3306. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  3307. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  3308. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  3309. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  3310. have failed.
  3311. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  3312. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  3313. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  3314. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  3315. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  3316. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  3317. easily.
  3318. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  3319. settings too.
  3320. o Features:
  3321. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  3322. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  3323. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  3324. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  3325. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  3326. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  3327. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  3328. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  3329. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  3330. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  3331. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  3332. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  3333. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  3334. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  3335. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  3336. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  3337. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  3338. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  3339. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  3340. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  3341. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  3342. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  3343. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  3344. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  3345. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  3346. server.
  3347. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  3348. o Features:
  3349. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  3350. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  3351. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  3352. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  3353. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  3354. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  3355. if you decrypted them correctly.
  3356. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  3357. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  3358. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  3359. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  3360. in-memory directories too.
  3361. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  3362. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  3363. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  3364. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  3365. just close the circ.
  3366. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  3367. - Better debugging for tls errors
  3368. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  3369. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  3370. o Bugfixes:
  3371. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  3372. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  3373. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  3374. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  3375. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  3376. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  3377. it tells you about the first error.
  3378. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  3379. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  3380. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  3381. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  3382. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  3383. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  3384. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  3385. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  3386. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  3387. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  3388. o Portability:
  3389. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  3390. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  3391. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  3392. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  3393. torrc. (Woo!)
  3394. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  3395. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  3396. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  3397. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  3398. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  3399. expect it to have a nickname.
  3400. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  3401. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  3402. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  3403. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  3404. the dns farm to do it.
  3405. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  3406. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  3407. directory.
  3408. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  3409. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  3410. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  3411. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  3412. but that aren't warnings
  3413. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  3414. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  3415. we would crash.
  3416. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  3417. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  3418. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  3419. - include missing header fcntl.h
  3420. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  3421. - deal with hardware word alignment
  3422. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  3423. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  3424. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  3425. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  3426. by kill -USR1 currently.
  3427. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  3428. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  3429. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  3430. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  3431. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  3432. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  3433. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  3434. o Bugfixes:
  3435. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  3436. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  3437. - And fix a few endian issues.
  3438. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  3439. o New features:
  3440. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  3441. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  3442. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  3443. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  3444. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  3445. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  3446. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  3447. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  3448. about as a server.
  3449. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  3450. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  3451. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  3452. o Bugfixes:
  3453. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  3454. simply not true.
  3455. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  3456. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  3457. side isn't reading right then.
  3458. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  3459. RecommendedVersions
  3460. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  3461. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  3462. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  3463. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  3464. o New features:
  3465. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  3466. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  3467. e.g. poblano.
  3468. o Bugfixes:
  3469. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  3470. crashed.
  3471. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  3472. o Bugfixes:
  3473. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  3474. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  3475. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  3476. connection is finished.
  3477. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  3478. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  3479. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  3480. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  3481. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  3482. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  3483. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  3484. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  3485. rather than warn and continue.
  3486. - Make --version work
  3487. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  3488. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  3489. o New features:
  3490. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  3491. knows it's working.
  3492. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  3493. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  3494. clearly thwarted.)
  3495. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  3496. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  3497. so you can collect coredumps there.
  3498. o Bugfixes:
  3499. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  3500. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  3501. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  3502. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  3503. dns cache actually gets populated.
  3504. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  3505. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  3506. end cell down it first.
  3507. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  3508. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  3509. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  3510. o New features:
  3511. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  3512. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  3513. errors happen.
  3514. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  3515. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  3516. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  3517. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  3518. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  3519. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  3520. it.
  3521. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  3522. o Bugfixes:
  3523. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  3524. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  3525. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  3526. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  3527. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  3528. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  3529. dirservers.
  3530. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  3531. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  3532. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  3533. o New features:
  3534. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  3535. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  3536. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  3537. tor. It even has a man page.
  3538. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  3539. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  3540. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  3541. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  3542. his/her torrc.
  3543. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  3544. o Bugfixes:
  3545. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  3546. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  3547. o New features:
  3548. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  3549. it, apt-getters. :)
  3550. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  3551. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  3552. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  3553. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  3554. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  3555. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  3556. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  3557. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  3558. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  3559. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  3560. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  3561. to new ones.
  3562. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  3563. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  3564. o Bugfixes:
  3565. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  3566. after a while.
  3567. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  3568. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  3569. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  3570. o Bugfixes:
  3571. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  3572. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  3573. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  3574. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  3575. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  3576. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  3577. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  3578. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  3579. logfile so you know it's working.
  3580. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  3581. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  3582. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  3583. o Bugfixes:
  3584. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  3585. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  3586. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  3587. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  3588. o Bugfixes:
  3589. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  3590. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  3591. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  3592. o Features:
  3593. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  3594. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  3595. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  3596. with MorphMix).
  3597. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  3598. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  3599. relay cells.
  3600. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  3601. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  3602. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  3603. this hop.
  3604. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  3605. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  3606. been made so far.
  3607. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  3608. o Bugfixes:
  3609. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  3610. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  3611. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  3612. o Features:
  3613. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  3614. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  3615. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  3616. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  3617. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  3618. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  3619. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  3620. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  3621. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  3622. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  3623. exit nodes.
  3624. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  3625. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  3626. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  3627. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  3628. really screw things up.
  3629. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  3630. working.
  3631. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  3632. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  3633. established.
  3634. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  3635. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  3636. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  3637. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  3638. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  3639. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  3640. o Documentation:
  3641. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  3642. o Configuration:
  3643. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  3644. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  3645. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  3646. ORPort>0.
  3647. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  3648. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  3649. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  3650. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  3651. - to get ownership/permissions right
  3652. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  3653. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  3654. pull down a directory again
  3655. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  3656. causing server crashes
  3657. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  3658. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  3659. - exit if bind() fails
  3660. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  3661. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  3662. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  3663. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  3664. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  3665. o Documentation:
  3666. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  3667. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  3668. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  3669. are down.
  3670. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  3671. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  3672. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  3673. exists, rather than failing
  3674. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  3675. which AP connections are standing by
  3676. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  3677. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  3678. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  3679. circuit.
  3680. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  3681. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  3682. o Configuration:
  3683. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  3684. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  3685. where to bind
  3686. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  3687. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  3688. - Reloads config on HUP
  3689. - Usage info on -h or --help
  3690. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  3691. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  3692. o General stability:
  3693. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  3694. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  3695. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  3696. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  3697. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  3698. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  3699. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  3700. o Buffers:
  3701. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  3702. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  3703. o Autoconf improvements:
  3704. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  3705. - Make install now works
  3706. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  3707. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  3708. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  3709. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  3710. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  3711. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  3712. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup