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