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  1. Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc1 - 2005-03-xx
  2. o New features:
  3. - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
  4. to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
  5. and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
  6. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  7. hidden services better.
  8. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  9. config option.
  10. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  11. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  12. - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
  13. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  14. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  15. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  16. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  17. - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
  18. patch by Matt Edman).
  19. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  20. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  21. required exit node for certain sites.
  22. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  23. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  24. your exit keeps changing.
  25. - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
  26. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  27. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  28. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  29. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  30. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  31. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  32. - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
  33. parse directories and find tor nodes that exit to listed
  34. nodes/ports.
  35. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  36. privoxy uses tor. Seems to be configured for debian by default.
  37. - Report HTTP reasons to when getting a response from directory
  38. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  39. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  40. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  41. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  42. o Robustness/stability fixes:
  43. - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
  44. poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
  45. cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
  46. on Windows too.
  47. - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
  48. we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
  49. to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
  50. threadsafeness.
  51. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  52. - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
  53. and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  54. appropriate nodes.
  55. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  56. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  57. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  58. that will want high uptime circuits.
  59. - When attaching a stream to a circuit, pay attention to its
  60. requirements.
  61. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  62. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  63. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  64. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  65. - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
  66. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  67. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  68. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  69. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  70. - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
  71. to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
  72. circs around if we've required internal circs lately (with high
  73. uptime if we've seen that lately).
  74. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  75. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  76. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  77. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  78. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  79. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  80. when we try to launch one.
  81. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
  82. rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
  83. - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
  84. "ShutdownWaitLength".
  85. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  86. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  87. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  88. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
  89. and to take errno into account where possible.
  90. o Bug fixes:
  91. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  92. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  93. - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
  94. file more reasonable.
  95. - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
  96. into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
  97. addresses -- it won't.
  98. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  99. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  100. for google.com" problem.
  101. - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
  102. so it's not just "unknown platform".
  103. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel)
  104. if they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option
  105. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  106. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  107. they're malformed.
  108. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  109. they could use instead.
  110. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  111. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
  112. means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
  113. already has it bound_. So, don't do that on Win32.
  114. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  115. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  116. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  117. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  118. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  119. the same series.
  120. o Helpful fixes:
  121. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers
  122. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  123. it was.
  124. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  125. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  126. private-IP addresses.
  127. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  128. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  129. for now.
  130. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  131. smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
  132. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  133. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  134. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  135. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  136. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  137. wrong.
  138. - Since we ship our own privoxy on os x, tweak it so it doesn't write
  139. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  140. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  141. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  142. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  143. - If we're hibernating and we get a sigint, exit immediately.
  144. - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
  145. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  146. we're leaking.
  147. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  148. addresses.
  149. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  150. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  151. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  152. whether the server is hibernating.
  153. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  154. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  155. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  156. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  157. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  158. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  159. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  160. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  161. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  162. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  163. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  164. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  165. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  166. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  167. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  168. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  169. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  170. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  171. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  172. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  173. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  174. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  175. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  176. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  177. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  178. existing torrc files.
  179. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  180. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  181. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  182. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  183. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  184. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  185. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  186. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  187. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  188. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  189. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  190. file descriptors available.
  191. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  192. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  193. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  194. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  195. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  196. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  197. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  198. freak out.
  199. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  200. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  201. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  202. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  203. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  204. logs, etc.
  205. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  206. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  207. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  208. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  209. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  210. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  211. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  212. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  213. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  214. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  215. 800kB/s of capacity.
  216. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  217. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  218. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  219. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  220. need as much processor time.
  221. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  222. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  223. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  224. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  225. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  226. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  227. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  228. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  229. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  230. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  231. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  232. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  233. resetting.
  234. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  235. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  236. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  237. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  238. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  239. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  240. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  241. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  242. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  243. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  244. to a file.
  245. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  246. style address, then we'd crash.
  247. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  248. a dirserver is broken.
  249. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  250. may work better.
  251. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  252. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  253. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  254. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  255. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  256. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  257. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  258. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  259. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  260. take any away.
  261. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  262. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  263. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  264. DataDirectory.
  265. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  266. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  267. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  268. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  269. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  270. values at once couldn't work.
  271. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  272. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  273. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  274. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  275. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  276. they can handle any number of routers.
  277. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  278. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  279. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  280. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  281. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  282. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  283. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  284. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  285. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  286. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  287. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  288. - Make hibernation actually work.
  289. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  290. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  291. don't use the stream status code.
  292. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  293. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  294. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  295. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  296. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  297. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  298. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  299. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  300. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  301. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  302. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  303. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  304. bit platforms.
  305. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  306. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  307. win32 socket errors better.
  308. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  309. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  310. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  311. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  312. happier.
  313. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  314. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  315. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  316. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  317. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  318. right after sending the begin cell.
  319. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  320. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  321. exit nodes too. Oops.
  322. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  323. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  324. the user would get no response.
  325. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  326. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  327. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  328. forever.
  329. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  330. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  331. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  332. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  333. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  334. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  335. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  336. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  337. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  338. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  339. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  340. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  341. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  342. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  343. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  344. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  345. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  346. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  347. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  348. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  349. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  350. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  351. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  352. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  353. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  354. so we don't see those messages days later.
  355. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  356. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  357. bug).
  358. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  359. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  360. they ran out of file descriptors.
  361. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  362. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  363. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  364. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  365. recent enough.
  366. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  367. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  368. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  369. the ones we find in directories.)
  370. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  371. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  372. if you don't want it open.
  373. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  374. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  375. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  376. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  377. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  378. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  379. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  380. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  381. overflow behavior.
  382. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  383. hey.)
  384. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  385. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  386. o Features (circuits and streams):
  387. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  388. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  389. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  390. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  391. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  392. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  393. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  394. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  395. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  396. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  397. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  398. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  399. from Geoff Goodell.
  400. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  401. pick it anyway.
  402. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  403. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  404. to fill the last cell completely.
  405. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  406. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  407. o Features (bandwidth):
  408. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  409. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  410. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  411. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  412. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  413. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  414. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  415. your billing cycle starts on.
  416. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  417. hibernation properties by
  418. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  419. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  420. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  421. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  422. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  423. o Features (directories):
  424. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  425. nickname to its identity key.
  426. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  427. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  428. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  429. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  430. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  431. appropriate.
  432. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  433. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  434. running-routers.z
  435. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  436. will be able to get a directory.
  437. - Http proxy support
  438. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  439. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  440. be routed through this host.
  441. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  442. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  443. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  444. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  445. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  446. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  447. o Features (packages and install):
  448. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  449. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  450. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  451. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  452. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  453. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  454. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  455. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  456. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  457. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  458. is broken.
  459. o Features (ui controller):
  460. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  461. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  462. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  463. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  464. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  465. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  466. with the control port.
  467. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  468. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  469. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  470. configuration to torrc.
  471. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  472. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  473. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  474. o Features (config and command-line):
  475. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  476. not on the command line.
  477. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  478. options.
  479. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  480. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  481. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  482. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  483. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  484. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  485. - New log format in config:
  486. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  487. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  488. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  489. from their dirserver.
  490. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  491. and then exit.
  492. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  493. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  494. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  495. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  496. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  497. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  498. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  499. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  500. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  501. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  502. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  503. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  504. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  505. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  506. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  507. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  508. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  509. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  510. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  511. than once per minute.
  512. o Features (other):
  513. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  514. get back to normal.)
  515. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  516. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  517. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  518. log more informatively.
  519. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  520. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  521. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  522. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  523. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  524. them act more like real nodes.
  525. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  526. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  527. 1024) file descriptors.
  528. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  529. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  530. o Bugfixes:
  531. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  532. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  533. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  534. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  535. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  536. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  537. intermittent connections.
  538. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  539. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  540. reattaches.
  541. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  542. in reporting stats locally.
  543. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  544. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  545. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  546. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  547. o Bugfixes:
  548. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  549. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  550. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  551. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  552. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  553. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  554. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  555. list to decide who's running.
  556. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  557. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  558. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  559. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  560. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  561. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  562. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  563. for pointing out this bug.)
  564. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  565. directory.
  566. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  567. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  568. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  569. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  570. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  571. o Protocol changes:
  572. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  573. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  574. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  575. hadn't heard of before.
  576. o Features:
  577. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  578. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  579. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  580. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  581. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  582. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  583. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  584. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  585. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  586. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  587. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  588. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  589. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  590. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  591. - Directory caching.
  592. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  593. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  594. directory they've pulled down.
  595. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  596. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  597. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  598. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  599. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  600. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  601. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  602. by hash-of-key).
  603. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  604. This isn't used yet.
  605. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  606. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  607. clients don't use this yet.)
  608. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  609. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  610. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  611. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  612. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  613. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  614. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  615. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  616. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  617. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  618. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  619. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  620. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  621. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  622. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  623. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  624. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  625. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  626. - File and name management:
  627. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  628. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  629. as datadir.
  630. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  631. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  632. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  633. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  634. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  635. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  636. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  637. to use.
  638. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  639. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  640. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  641. locally.
  642. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  643. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  644. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  645. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  646. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  647. - New docs in the tarball:
  648. - tor-doc.html.
  649. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  650. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  651. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  652. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  653. know you might want to get it verified.
  654. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  655. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  656. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  657. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  658. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  659. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  660. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  661. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  662. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  663. "GET /".
  664. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  665. an exitnode.
  666. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  667. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  668. or exit nodes.
  669. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  670. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  671. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  672. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  673. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  674. ask them to resolve the host "".
  675. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  676. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  677. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  678. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  679. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  680. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  681. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  682. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  683. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  684. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  685. them.
  686. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  687. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  688. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  689. exit nodes.
  690. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  691. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  692. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  693. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  694. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  695. o Fixes for security bugs:
  696. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  697. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  698. a trusted dirserver.
  699. o Other bugfixes:
  700. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  701. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  702. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  703. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  704. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  705. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  706. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  707. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  708. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  709. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  710. have failed.
  711. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  712. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  713. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  714. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  715. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  716. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  717. easily.
  718. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  719. settings too.
  720. o Features:
  721. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  722. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  723. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  724. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  725. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  726. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  727. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  728. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  729. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  730. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  731. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  732. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  733. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  734. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  735. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  736. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  737. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  738. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  739. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  740. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  741. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  742. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  743. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  744. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  745. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  746. server.
  747. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  748. o Features:
  749. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  750. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  751. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  752. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  753. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  754. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  755. if you decrypted them correctly.
  756. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  757. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  758. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  759. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  760. in-memory directories too.
  761. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  762. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  763. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  764. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  765. just close the circ.
  766. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  767. - Better debugging for tls errors
  768. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  769. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  770. o Bugfixes:
  771. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  772. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  773. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  774. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  775. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  776. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  777. it tells you about the first error.
  778. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  779. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  780. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  781. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  782. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  783. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  784. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  785. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  786. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  787. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  788. o Portability:
  789. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  790. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  791. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  792. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  793. torrc. (Woo!)
  794. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  795. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  796. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  797. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  798. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  799. expect it to have a nickname.
  800. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  801. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  802. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  803. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  804. the dns farm to do it.
  805. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  806. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  807. directory.
  808. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  809. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  810. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  811. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  812. but that aren't warnings
  813. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  814. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  815. we would crash.
  816. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  817. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  818. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  819. - include missing header fcntl.h
  820. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  821. - deal with hardware word alignment
  822. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  823. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  824. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  825. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  826. by kill -USR1 currently.
  827. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  828. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  829. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  830. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  831. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  832. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  833. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  834. o Bugfixes:
  835. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  836. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  837. - And fix a few endian issues.
  838. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  839. o New features:
  840. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  841. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  842. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  843. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  844. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  845. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  846. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  847. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  848. about as a server.
  849. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  850. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  851. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  852. o Bugfixes:
  853. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  854. simply not true.
  855. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  856. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  857. side isn't reading right then.
  858. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  859. RecommendedVersions
  860. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  861. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  862. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  863. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  864. o New features:
  865. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  866. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  867. e.g. poblano.
  868. o Bugfixes:
  869. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  870. crashed.
  871. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  872. o Bugfixes:
  873. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  874. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  875. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  876. connection is finished.
  877. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  878. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  879. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  880. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  881. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  882. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  883. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  884. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  885. rather than warn and continue.
  886. - Make --version work
  887. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  888. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  889. o New features:
  890. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  891. knows it's working.
  892. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  893. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  894. clearly thwarted.)
  895. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  896. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  897. so you can collect coredumps there.
  898. o Bugfixes:
  899. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  900. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  901. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  902. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  903. dns cache actually gets populated.
  904. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  905. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  906. end cell down it first.
  907. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  908. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  909. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  910. o New features:
  911. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  912. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  913. errors happen.
  914. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  915. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  916. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  917. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  918. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  919. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  920. it.
  921. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  922. o Bugfixes:
  923. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  924. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  925. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  926. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  927. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  928. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  929. dirservers.
  930. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  931. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  932. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  933. o New features:
  934. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  935. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  936. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  937. tor. It even has a man page.
  938. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  939. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  940. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  941. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  942. his/her torrc.
  943. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  944. o Bugfixes:
  945. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  946. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  947. o New features:
  948. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  949. it, apt-getters. :)
  950. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  951. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  952. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  953. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  954. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  955. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  956. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  957. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  958. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  959. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  960. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  961. to new ones.
  962. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  963. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  964. o Bugfixes:
  965. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  966. after a while.
  967. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  968. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  969. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  970. o Bugfixes:
  971. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  972. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  973. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  974. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  975. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  976. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  977. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  978. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  979. logfile so you know it's working.
  980. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  981. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  982. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  983. o Bugfixes:
  984. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  985. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  986. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  987. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  988. o Bugfixes:
  989. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  990. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  991. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  992. o Features:
  993. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  994. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  995. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  996. with MorphMix).
  997. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  998. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  999. relay cells.
  1000. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  1001. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  1002. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  1003. this hop.
  1004. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  1005. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  1006. been made so far.
  1007. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  1008. o Bugfixes:
  1009. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  1010. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  1011. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  1012. o Features:
  1013. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  1014. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  1015. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  1016. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  1017. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  1018. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  1019. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  1020. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  1021. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  1022. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  1023. exit nodes.
  1024. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  1025. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  1026. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  1027. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  1028. really screw things up.
  1029. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  1030. working.
  1031. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  1032. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  1033. established.
  1034. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  1035. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  1036. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  1037. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  1038. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  1039. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  1040. o Documentation:
  1041. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  1042. o Configuration:
  1043. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  1044. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  1045. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  1046. ORPort>0.
  1047. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  1048. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  1049. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  1050. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  1051. - to get ownership/permissions right
  1052. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  1053. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  1054. pull down a directory again
  1055. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  1056. causing server crashes
  1057. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  1058. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  1059. - exit if bind() fails
  1060. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  1061. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  1062. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  1063. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  1064. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  1065. o Documentation:
  1066. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  1067. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  1068. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  1069. are down.
  1070. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  1071. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  1072. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  1073. exists, rather than failing
  1074. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  1075. which AP connections are standing by
  1076. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  1077. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  1078. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  1079. circuit.
  1080. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  1081. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  1082. o Configuration:
  1083. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  1084. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  1085. where to bind
  1086. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  1087. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  1088. - Reloads config on HUP
  1089. - Usage info on -h or --help
  1090. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  1091. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  1092. o General stability:
  1093. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  1094. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  1095. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  1096. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  1097. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  1098. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  1099. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  1100. o Buffers:
  1101. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  1102. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  1103. o Autoconf improvements:
  1104. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  1105. - Make install now works
  1106. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  1107. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  1108. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  1109. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  1110. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  1111. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  1112. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup