1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071727374757677787980818283848586878889909192939495969798991001011021031041051061071081091101111121131141151161171181191201211221231241251261271281291301311321331341351361371381391401411421431441451461471481491501511521531541551561571581591601611621631641651661671681691701711721731741751761771781791801811821831841851861871881891901911921931941951961971981992002012022032042052062072082092102112122132142152162172182192202212222232242252262272282292302312322332342352362372382392402412422432442452462472482492502512522532542552562572582592602612622632642652662672682692702712722732742752762772782792802812822832842852862872882892902912922932942952962972982993003013023033043053063073083093103113123133143153163173183193203213223233243253263273283293303313323333343353363373383393403413423433443453463473483493503513523533543553563573583593603613623633643653663673683693703713723733743753763773783793803813823833843853863873883893903913923933943953963973983994004014024034044054064074084094104114124134144154164174184194204214224234244254264274284294304314324334344354364374384394404414424434444454464474484494504514524534544554564574584594604614624634644654664674684694704714724734744754764774784794804814824834844854864874884894904914924934944954964974984995005015025035045055065075085095105115125135145155165175185195205215225235245255265275285295305315325335345355365375385395405415425435445455465475485495505515525535545555565575585595605615625635645655665675685695705715725735745755765775785795805815825835845855865875885895905915925935945955965975985996006016026036046056066076086096106116126136146156166176186196206216226236246256266276286296306316326336346356366376386396406416426436446456466476486496506516526536546556566576586596606616626636646656666676686696706716726736746756766776786796806816826836846856866876886896906916926936946956966976986997007017027037047057067077087097107117127137147157167177187197207217227237247257267277287297307317327337347357367377387397407417427437447457467477487497507517527537547557567577587597607617627637647657667677687697707717727737747757767777787797807817827837847857867877887897907917927937947957967977987998008018028038048058068078088098108118128138148158168178188198208218228238248258268278288298308318328338348358368378388398408418428438448458468478488498508518528538548558568578588598608618628638648658668678688698708718728738748758768778788798808818828838848858868878888898908918928938948958968978988999009019029039049059069079089099109119129139149159169179189199209219229239249259269279289299309319329339349359369379389399409419429439449459469479489499509519529539549559569579589599609619629639649659669679689699709719729739749759769779789799809819829839849859869879889899909919929939949959969979989991000100110021003100410051006100710081009101010111012101310141015101610171018101910201021102210231024102510261027102810291030103110321033103410351036103710381039104010411042104310441045104610471048104910501051105210531054105510561057105810591060106110621063106410651066106710681069107010711072107310741075107610771078107910801081108210831084108510861087108810891090109110921093109410951096109710981099110011011102110311041105110611071108110911101111111211131114111511161117111811191120112111221123112411251126112711281129113011311132113311341135113611371138113911401141114211431144114511461147114811491150115111521153115411551156115711581159116011611162116311641165116611671168116911701171117211731174117511761177117811791180118111821183118411851186118711881189119011911192119311941195119611971198119912001201120212031204120512061207120812091210121112121213121412151216121712181219122012211222122312241225122612271228122912301231123212331234123512361237123812391240124112421243124412451246124712481249125012511252125312541255125612571258125912601261126212631264126512661267126812691270127112721273127412751276127712781279128012811282128312841285128612871288128912901291129212931294129512961297129812991300130113021303130413051306130713081309131013111312131313141315131613171318131913201321132213231324132513261327132813291330133113321333133413351336133713381339134013411342134313441345134613471348134913501351135213531354135513561357135813591360136113621363136413651366136713681369137013711372137313741375137613771378137913801381138213831384138513861387138813891390139113921393139413951396139713981399140014011402140314041405140614071408140914101411141214131414141514161417141814191420142114221423142414251426142714281429143014311432143314341435143614371438143914401441144214431444144514461447144814491450145114521453145414551456145714581459146014611462146314641465146614671468146914701471147214731474147514761477147814791480148114821483148414851486148714881489149014911492149314941495149614971498149915001501150215031504150515061507150815091510151115121513151415151516151715181519152015211522152315241525152615271528152915301531153215331534153515361537153815391540154115421543154415451546154715481549155015511552155315541555155615571558155915601561156215631564156515661567156815691570157115721573157415751576157715781579158015811582158315841585158615871588158915901591159215931594159515961597159815991600160116021603160416051606160716081609161016111612161316141615161616171618161916201621162216231624162516261627162816291630163116321633163416351636163716381639164016411642164316441645164616471648164916501651165216531654165516561657165816591660166116621663166416651666166716681669167016711672167316741675167616771678167916801681168216831684168516861687168816891690169116921693169416951696169716981699170017011702170317041705170617071708170917101711171217131714171517161717171817191720172117221723172417251726172717281729173017311732173317341735173617371738173917401741174217431744174517461747174817491750175117521753175417551756175717581759176017611762176317641765176617671768176917701771177217731774177517761777177817791780178117821783178417851786178717881789179017911792179317941795179617971798179918001801180218031804180518061807180818091810181118121813181418151816181718181819182018211822182318241825182618271828182918301831183218331834183518361837183818391840184118421843184418451846184718481849185018511852185318541855185618571858185918601861186218631864186518661867186818691870187118721873187418751876187718781879188018811882188318841885188618871888188918901891189218931894189518961897189818991900190119021903190419051906190719081909191019111912191319141915191619171918191919201921192219231924192519261927192819291930193119321933193419351936193719381939194019411942194319441945194619471948194919501951195219531954195519561957195819591960196119621963196419651966196719681969197019711972197319741975197619771978197919801981198219831984198519861987198819891990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026202720282029203020312032203320342035203620372038203920402041204220432044204520462047204820492050205120522053205420552056205720582059206020612062206320642065206620672068206920702071207220732074207520762077207820792080208120822083208420852086208720882089209020912092209320942095209620972098209921002101210221032104210521062107210821092110211121122113211421152116211721182119212021212122212321242125212621272128212921302131213221332134213521362137213821392140214121422143214421452146214721482149215021512152215321542155215621572158215921602161216221632164216521662167216821692170217121722173217421752176217721782179218021812182218321842185218621872188218921902191219221932194219521962197219821992200220122022203220422052206220722082209221022112212221322142215221622172218221922202221222222232224222522262227222822292230223122322233223422352236223722382239224022412242224322442245224622472248224922502251225222532254225522562257225822592260226122622263226422652266226722682269227022712272227322742275227622772278227922802281228222832284228522862287228822892290229122922293229422952296229722982299230023012302230323042305230623072308230923102311231223132314231523162317231823192320232123222323232423252326232723282329233023312332233323342335233623372338233923402341234223432344234523462347234823492350235123522353235423552356235723582359236023612362236323642365236623672368236923702371237223732374237523762377237823792380238123822383238423852386238723882389239023912392239323942395239623972398239924002401240224032404240524062407240824092410241124122413241424152416241724182419242024212422242324242425242624272428242924302431243224332434243524362437243824392440244124422443244424452446244724482449245024512452245324542455245624572458245924602461246224632464246524662467246824692470247124722473247424752476247724782479248024812482248324842485248624872488248924902491249224932494249524962497249824992500250125022503250425052506250725082509251025112512251325142515251625172518251925202521252225232524252525262527252825292530253125322533253425352536253725382539254025412542254325442545254625472548254925502551255225532554255525562557255825592560256125622563256425652566256725682569257025712572257325742575257625772578257925802581258225832584258525862587258825892590259125922593259425952596259725982599260026012602260326042605260626072608260926102611261226132614261526162617261826192620262126222623262426252626262726282629263026312632263326342635263626372638263926402641264226432644264526462647264826492650265126522653265426552656265726582659266026612662266326642665266626672668266926702671267226732674267526762677267826792680268126822683268426852686268726882689269026912692269326942695269626972698269927002701270227032704270527062707270827092710271127122713271427152716271727182719272027212722272327242725272627272728272927302731273227332734273527362737273827392740274127422743274427452746274727482749275027512752275327542755275627572758275927602761276227632764276527662767276827692770277127722773277427752776277727782779278027812782278327842785278627872788278927902791279227932794279527962797279827992800280128022803280428052806280728082809281028112812281328142815281628172818281928202821282228232824282528262827282828292830283128322833283428352836283728382839284028412842284328442845284628472848284928502851285228532854285528562857285828592860286128622863286428652866286728682869287028712872287328742875287628772878287928802881288228832884288528862887288828892890289128922893289428952896289728982899290029012902290329042905290629072908290929102911291229132914291529162917291829192920292129222923292429252926292729282929293029312932293329342935293629372938293929402941294229432944294529462947294829492950295129522953295429552956295729582959296029612962296329642965296629672968296929702971297229732974297529762977297829792980298129822983298429852986298729882989299029912992299329942995299629972998299930003001300230033004300530063007300830093010301130123013301430153016301730183019302030213022302330243025302630273028302930303031303230333034303530363037303830393040304130423043304430453046304730483049305030513052305330543055305630573058305930603061306230633064306530663067306830693070307130723073307430753076307730783079308030813082308330843085308630873088308930903091309230933094309530963097309830993100310131023103310431053106310731083109311031113112311331143115311631173118311931203121312231233124312531263127312831293130313131323133313431353136313731383139314031413142314331443145314631473148314931503151315231533154315531563157315831593160316131623163316431653166316731683169317031713172317331743175317631773178317931803181318231833184318531863187318831893190319131923193319431953196319731983199320032013202320332043205320632073208320932103211321232133214321532163217321832193220322132223223322432253226322732283229323032313232323332343235323632373238323932403241324232433244324532463247324832493250325132523253325432553256325732583259326032613262326332643265326632673268326932703271327232733274327532763277327832793280328132823283328432853286328732883289329032913292329332943295329632973298329933003301330233033304330533063307330833093310331133123313331433153316331733183319332033213322332333243325332633273328332933303331333233333334333533363337333833393340334133423343334433453346334733483349335033513352335333543355335633573358335933603361336233633364336533663367336833693370337133723373337433753376337733783379338033813382338333843385338633873388338933903391339233933394339533963397339833993400340134023403340434053406340734083409341034113412341334143415341634173418341934203421342234233424342534263427342834293430343134323433343434353436343734383439344034413442344334443445344634473448344934503451345234533454345534563457345834593460346134623463346434653466346734683469347034713472347334743475347634773478347934803481348234833484348534863487348834893490349134923493349434953496349734983499350035013502350335043505350635073508350935103511351235133514351535163517351835193520352135223523352435253526352735283529353035313532353335343535353635373538353935403541354235433544354535463547354835493550355135523553355435553556355735583559356035613562356335643565356635673568356935703571357235733574357535763577357835793580358135823583358435853586358735883589359035913592359335943595359635973598359936003601360236033604360536063607360836093610361136123613361436153616361736183619362036213622362336243625362636273628362936303631363236333634363536363637363836393640364136423643364436453646364736483649365036513652365336543655365636573658365936603661366236633664366536663667366836693670367136723673367436753676367736783679368036813682368336843685368636873688368936903691369236933694369536963697369836993700370137023703370437053706370737083709371037113712371337143715371637173718371937203721372237233724372537263727372837293730373137323733373437353736373737383739374037413742374337443745374637473748374937503751375237533754375537563757375837593760376137623763376437653766376737683769377037713772377337743775377637773778377937803781378237833784378537863787378837893790379137923793379437953796379737983799380038013802380338043805380638073808380938103811381238133814381538163817381838193820382138223823382438253826382738283829383038313832383338343835383638373838383938403841384238433844384538463847384838493850385138523853385438553856385738583859386038613862386338643865386638673868386938703871387238733874387538763877387838793880388138823883388438853886388738883889389038913892389338943895389638973898389939003901390239033904390539063907390839093910391139123913391439153916391739183919392039213922392339243925392639273928392939303931393239333934393539363937393839393940394139423943394439453946394739483949395039513952395339543955395639573958395939603961396239633964396539663967396839693970397139723973397439753976397739783979398039813982398339843985398639873988398939903991399239933994399539963997399839994000400140024003400440054006400740084009401040114012401340144015401640174018401940204021402240234024402540264027402840294030403140324033403440354036403740384039404040414042404340444045404640474048404940504051405240534054405540564057405840594060406140624063406440654066406740684069407040714072407340744075407640774078407940804081408240834084408540864087408840894090409140924093409440954096409740984099410041014102410341044105410641074108410941104111411241134114411541164117411841194120412141224123412441254126412741284129413041314132413341344135413641374138413941404141414241434144414541464147414841494150415141524153415441554156415741584159416041614162416341644165416641674168416941704171417241734174417541764177417841794180418141824183418441854186418741884189419041914192419341944195419641974198419942004201420242034204420542064207420842094210421142124213421442154216421742184219422042214222422342244225422642274228422942304231423242334234423542364237423842394240424142424243424442454246424742484249425042514252425342544255425642574258425942604261426242634264426542664267426842694270427142724273427442754276427742784279428042814282428342844285428642874288428942904291429242934294429542964297429842994300430143024303430443054306430743084309431043114312431343144315431643174318431943204321432243234324432543264327432843294330433143324333433443354336433743384339434043414342434343444345434643474348434943504351435243534354435543564357435843594360436143624363436443654366436743684369437043714372437343744375437643774378437943804381438243834384438543864387438843894390439143924393439443954396439743984399440044014402440344044405440644074408440944104411441244134414441544164417441844194420442144224423442444254426442744284429443044314432443344344435443644374438443944404441444244434444444544464447444844494450445144524453445444554456445744584459446044614462446344644465446644674468446944704471447244734474447544764477447844794480448144824483448444854486448744884489449044914492449344944495449644974498449945004501450245034504450545064507450845094510451145124513451445154516451745184519452045214522452345244525452645274528452945304531453245334534453545364537453845394540454145424543454445454546454745484549455045514552455345544555455645574558455945604561456245634564456545664567456845694570457145724573457445754576457745784579458045814582458345844585458645874588458945904591459245934594459545964597459845994600460146024603460446054606460746084609461046114612461346144615461646174618461946204621462246234624462546264627462846294630463146324633463446354636463746384639464046414642464346444645464646474648464946504651465246534654465546564657465846594660466146624663466446654666466746684669467046714672467346744675467646774678467946804681468246834684468546864687468846894690469146924693469446954696469746984699470047014702470347044705470647074708470947104711471247134714471547164717471847194720472147224723472447254726472747284729473047314732473347344735473647374738473947404741474247434744474547464747474847494750475147524753475447554756475747584759476047614762476347644765476647674768476947704771477247734774477547764777477847794780478147824783478447854786478747884789479047914792479347944795479647974798479948004801480248034804480548064807480848094810481148124813481448154816481748184819482048214822482348244825482648274828482948304831483248334834483548364837483848394840484148424843484448454846484748484849485048514852485348544855485648574858485948604861486248634864486548664867486848694870487148724873487448754876487748784879488048814882488348844885488648874888488948904891489248934894489548964897489848994900490149024903490449054906490749084909491049114912491349144915491649174918491949204921492249234924492549264927492849294930493149324933 |
- Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-??-??
- o Minor features (security):
- - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that any address
- maps to an internal address space.
- - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
- CookieAuthentication at the same time.
- o Minor features (guard nodes):
- - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that we believe
- added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way, if a user
- temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches back to a new
- one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
- hard time generating real Internet newlines.
- - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
- "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
- Robert Hogan.
- o Removed features:
- - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
- descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
- documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60% (!) of
- compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes implementation of
- proposal 104.
- - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
- and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
- and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
- - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
- them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
- patch from Karsten Loesing.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
- rend_process_relay_cell().
- - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
- hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
- they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
- - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
- connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
- digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
- changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
- router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
- bug 467.
- - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
- "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
- - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
- a way to trigger this remotely.)
- - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
- (Found by Niels Provos with valgrind.)
- - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
- --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
- bug 499.)
- - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
- BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
- were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
- RelayBandwidthRate.
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire contents
- of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor, meet stdio.
- - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
- - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
- - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
- - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
- deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
- become more of a headache than it's worth.
- o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
- - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
- proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
- from Mike Perry.
- - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
- will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
- - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
- guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
- three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
- by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
- o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
- - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
- they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
- some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
- circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
- is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
- a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
- protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
- o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
- greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
- - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
- the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
- its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
- two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
- powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
- use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
- Based on patch from Mike Perry.
- - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
- weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
- would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
- if we ran off the end of the list.
- - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
- cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
- where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
- - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
- every time we change any piece of our config.
- - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
- encourage people using them to stop.
- - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
- from tup.
- - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
- servers to choose a circuit.
- - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
- unparseable piece of it.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
- o Major features:
- - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
- mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
- use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
- to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
- o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
- - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
- proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
- from Mike Perry.
- - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
- will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
- - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
- guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
- three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
- by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
- o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
- - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
- found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- o Minor features:
- - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
- GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
- - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
- of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
- from localhost.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
- routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
- - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
- address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.x)
- - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
- a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
- address.
- - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
- in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
- new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
- - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
- conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
- - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
- servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
- unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
- o Removed features:
- - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
- authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
- no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
- working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
- versions anyway.
- o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
- - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
- - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
- not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
- - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
- Zhou.
- o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
- - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
- they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
- some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
- circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
- reported by lodger.
- o Minor features (directory servers):
- - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
- none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
- o Minor features (directory voting):
- - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
- on startup.
- o Minor features (security):
- - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
- - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
- encourage people using them to stop.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
- is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
- a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
- protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
- - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
- cookie authentication file, and config option
- CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
- o Minor features (unit testing):
- - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
- invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
- to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
- logging for the unit tests.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
- - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
- cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
- where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
- - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
- every time we change any piece of our config.
- - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
- the future. Fixes bug 434.
- - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
- in the future.
- - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
- onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
- the onion key from getting rotated.
- - Clean up torrc sample config file.
- - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
- non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
- programs.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
- - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
- the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
- try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
- - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
- - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
- o Major security fixes:
- - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
- do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
- o Major security fixes:
- - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
- do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
- o Major bugfixes (compilation):
- - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
- defined there.
- o Minor features (performance):
- - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
- empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
- performance-intensive.
- - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
- the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
- now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
- powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
- siightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
- - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
- exists.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
- o Major features:
- - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
- are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
- people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
- with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
- See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
- details.
- - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
- User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
- under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
- before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
- pick these ports.)
- - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
- SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
- on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
- - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
- traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
- o Major features (experimental):
- - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
- vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
- their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
- handling before it's ready for use.
- o Security fixes:
- - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
- at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
- Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
- complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
- - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
- Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
- Damon McCoy.)
- - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
- procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
- some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
- solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
- the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
- o Major bugfixes (directory):
- - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
- a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
- match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
- - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
- from Robert Hogan.)
- - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
- from Robert Hogan.)
- - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
- Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
- from Tup.)
- - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
- controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
- support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
- - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
- tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
- - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
- with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
- (Patch from Tup.)
- o Minor features (misc):
- - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
- from croup.)
- - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
- files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
- the authority identity key.
- - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
- free-lists.
- - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
- - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
- if they generate a network status document that is somehow
- malformed.
- o Traffic load balancing improvements:
- - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
- use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
- (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
- - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
- weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
- would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
- if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
- o Performance improvements:
- - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
- memory free lists.
- - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
- on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
- between processes.
- o Deprecated and removed features:
- - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
- - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
- We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
- to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
- o Minor bugfixes (directory):
- - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
- Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
- - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
- have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
- leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
- - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
- suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
- servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.1-alpha]
- o Minor bugfixes (dns):
- - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
- Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
- - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
- can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
- - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
- changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.2-alpha]
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
- compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
- field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
- - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
- - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
- from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
- - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
- events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
- Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
- o Major bugfixes (compilation):
- - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
- an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
- - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
- routerlist while inserting a new router.
- - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
- don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
- from croup.)
- - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
- orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
- definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
- found by croup.
- - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
- the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
- and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
- - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
- bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
- cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
- - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
- never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
- guard list unless we need to.
- o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
- - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
- don't get overused as guards.
- o Minor bugfixes (directory):
- - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
- version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
- - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
- once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
- o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
- connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
- Resolves bug 444.
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
- cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
- - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
- bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
- unlikely. Patch from lodger.
- - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
- - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
- o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
- - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
- Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
- o Minor features (directory):
- - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
- directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
- (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
- are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
- o Minor build issues:
- - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
- - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
- installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
- in the tarball, not as "x".
- Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
- o Major features, server usability:
- - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
- a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
- relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
- OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
- o Major features, client usability:
- - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
- dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
- for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
- anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
- The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
- - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
- we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
- do all of their connections protected by TLS.
- o Major features, performance and efficiency:
- - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
- routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
- that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
- bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
- the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
- proposal 104.]
- - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
- them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
- extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
- proposal 104.]
- - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
- Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
- client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
- queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
- will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
- of traffic.
- - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
- efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
- - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
- buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
- o Major features, other:
- - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
- can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
- logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
- - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
- Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
- o Security fixes:
- - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
- uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
- in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
- and Damon McCoy.
- o Minor fixes (resource management):
- - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
- of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
- our allocated connection limit.
- - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
- anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
- Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
- in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
- client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
- workaround.
- - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
- for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
- 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
- o Minor features (build):
- - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
- - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
- - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
- know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
- warning.
- - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
- string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
- some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
- the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
- Use this version consistently in log messages.
- o Minor features (logging):
- - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
- - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
- message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
- OpenBSD or Windows or what.
- - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
- buffer type.
- o Minor features (directory system):
- - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
- authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
- not to serve V2 directory information.
- - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
- info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
- implementing proposal 104 simpler.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
- use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
- preemptively.
- - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
- so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
- - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
- - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
- whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
- are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
- o Minor features (hidden services):
- - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
- port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
- of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
- adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
- o Minor features (other):
- - More unit tests.
- - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
- resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
- generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
- allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
- default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
- patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
- - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
- address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
- longer a completely silly thing to do.
- - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
- now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
- - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
- minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
- o Removed features:
- - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
- This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
- since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
- back an error and close the connection.
- - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
- since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
- eventdns code.
- o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
- try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
- makes the log messages nicer.
- - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
- - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
- partial results on small file reads.
- o Minor bugfixes (directory):
- - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
- more often than they are allowed to appear.
- - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
- logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
- o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
- don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
- unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
- server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
- a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
- explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
- connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
- - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
- - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
- cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
- - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
- lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
- in Oct 2004.)
- - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
- - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
- because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
- we restart.
- - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
- - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
- - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
- Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
- server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
- by daejees.
- - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
- caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
- by daejees.
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
- implicit in other procedure arguments.
- - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
- corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
- feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
- - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
- properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
- - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
- - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
- a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
- is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
- o Directory authority changes:
- - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
- IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
- or use hidden services.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
- as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
- but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
- behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
- - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
- to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
- - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
- - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
- by lodger.)
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
- that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
- that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
- o Major bugfixes (resource management):
- - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
- networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
- every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
- - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
- don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
- not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
- - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
- lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
- think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
- purpose=controller.
- - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
- we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
- network-statuses.
- - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
- having a hard time downloading.
- - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
- partial results on small file reads.
- - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
- routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
- the gaps in the store get very large.
- o Minor features:
- - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
- authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
- documents.
- - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
- OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
- o Minor fixes:
- - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
- get one we don't recognize.
- - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
- - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
- directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
- begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
- serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
- event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
- o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
- - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
- to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
- - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
- implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
- ask for GUARDS too.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
- o Major bugfixes (Windows):
- - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
- just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
- on Win98 and friends again.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - Clarify a couple of log messages.
- - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
- o Major bugfixes (Windows):
- - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
- of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
- int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
- truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
- MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
- and maybe also bug 397.)
- o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
- This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
- o Minor bugfixes (server):
- - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
- time.
- o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
- - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
- "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
- uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
- - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
- o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
- load on authorities.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
- cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
- - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
- to INT32_MAX.
- - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
- Stefan Nordhausen.
- - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
- of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
- means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
- the last of bug 326.)
- - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
- descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
- the 0.2.0 branch.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
- one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
- - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
- arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
- except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
- resolves bug 389.)
- - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
- we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
- o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
- in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
- o Major bugfixes (accounting):
- - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
- up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
- clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
- that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
- 3 of bug 367.)
- - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
- protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
- "INTERNAL".
- - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
- we finally get the IP from an exit node.
- - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
- long.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
- recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
- - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
- guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
- from all known directories, not that it will have the average
- bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
- - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
- and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
- - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
- user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
- - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
- other than file-not-found.
- - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
- perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
- - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
- in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
- EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
- - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
- handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
- on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
- - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
- tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
- - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
- no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
- in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
- we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
- - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
- comes back online.
- - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
- DNS request.
- - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
- nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
- control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
- the next development series, so it's good to give people some
- advance warning.
- - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
- use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
- - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
- impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
- mwenge; closes bug 394.)
- - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
- make them generated in every case where we get a successful
- connected or resolved cell.
- o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
- some profiles, but not others.)
- - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
- arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
- (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
- o Minor features:
- - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
- obsolete.
- - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
- certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
- have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
- the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
- clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
- than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
- - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
- which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
- - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
- directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
- - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
- ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
- are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
- - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
- whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
- bug 373.)
- - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
- o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
- - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
- they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
- more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
- - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
- - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
- request.
- - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
- connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
- - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
- uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
- buckets go absurdly negative.
- - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
- writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
- trying to flush.
- o Major bugfixes (NT services):
- - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
- command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
- "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
- existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
- will look for its configuration file in the service user's
- %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
- directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
- directory.)
- o Major bugfixes (other):
- - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
- indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
- discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
- - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
- Del Vecchio).
- - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
- pointer loops.
- - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
- ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
- to become a guard.
- - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
- don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
- to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
- eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
- slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
- to wait for 0.2.0.)
- o Minor bugfixes (dns):
- - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
- possible memory-stomping bugs.
- - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
- an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
- extra bytes.)
- - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
- in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
- - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
- This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
- - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
- - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
- - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
- time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
- time it is now.
- - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
- handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
- days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
- - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
- "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
- - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
- - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
- from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
- download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
- us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
- - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
- connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
- - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
- unstable ones.
- - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
- - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
- - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
- completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
- - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
- if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
- to the resulting address.
- o Major features:
- - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
- let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
- succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
- choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
- o Minor features:
- - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
- new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
- versions too.
- - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
- as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
- override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
- - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
- take arguments rather than require direct editing.
- - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
- DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
- was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
- - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
- directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
- ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
- create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
- - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
- - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
- - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
- get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
- exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
- line.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
- available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
- - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
- can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
- - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
- - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
- address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
- directive.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
- connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
- - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
- advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
- we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
- Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
- weren't planning to resolve.
- - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
- unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
- - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
- flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
- the controller from learning about current events.
- o Minor features (more controller status events):
- - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
- learn when our address changes.
- - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
- can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
- - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
- can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
- to our SocksPort.
- - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
- can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
- - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
- Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
- - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
- when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
- - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
- server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
- are accepted by a directory.
- - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
- server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
- deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
- - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
- when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
- be changed.
- - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
- and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
- about changes to DNS server status.
- o Minor features (directory):
- - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
- too much load to the exit nodes.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
- o Major features:
- - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
- capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
- than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
- - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
- would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
- to send them.
- - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
- directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
- the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
- from Matt Edman.
- - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
- wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
- their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
- - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
- server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
- plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
- config options if you like.
- o Minor features (config and docs):
- - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
- the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
- for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
- - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
- disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
- a timely fashion.
- - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
- the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
- - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
- - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
- accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
- options files.
- - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
- NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
- - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
- avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
- AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
- is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
- - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
- documentation: "make check-docs".
- - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
- addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
- o Minor features (DNS):
- - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
- and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
- - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
- - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
- - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
- our tests for DNS hijacking.
- o Minor features (directory):
- - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
- about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
- clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
- The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
- protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
- - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
- clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
- having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
- moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
- - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
- are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
- Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
- - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
- dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
- gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
- - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
- count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
- for the thing we're trying to download.
- - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
- connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
- address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
- internal.
- - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
- - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
- can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
- broken.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
- - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
- actual keys.
- - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
- - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
- entry guard status as it changes.
- o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
- - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
- 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
- SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
- to set log options.
- - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
- "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
- secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
- - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
- preceded by "opt".
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
- servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
- - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
- - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
- is set.
- - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
- 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
- - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
- keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
- we never stay up for a week ourselves.
- o Major bugfixes (other):
- - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
- timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
- give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
- 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
- after that.
- - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
- schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
- seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
- a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
- - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
- would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
- by John Kimble.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
- AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
- unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
- - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
- - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
- Fabian Keil.
- - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
- to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
- it by name.
- - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
- even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
- family lists conveniently.
- - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
- nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
- user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
- bug 363.)
- - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
- - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
- changed.
- - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
- our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
- raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
- - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
- if their identity keys are as expected.
- - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
- suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
- - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
- reported by Mike Perry.
- - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
- when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
- - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
- controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
- o Security bugfixes:
- - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
- servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
- - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
- - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
- is set.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
- AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
- unlisted router (reported by seeess).
- Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
- o Major features:
- - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
- 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
- SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
- o Minor features:
- - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
- immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
- successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
- watching for STREAM events.
- - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
- hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
- - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
- operations, for profiling.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
- approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
- an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
- - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
- the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
- until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
- Zajcev Evgeny.)
- - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
- startup.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
- don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
- - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
- without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
- restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
- per day.
- - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
- correctly in the Windows installer.
- - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
- Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
- - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
- MIPSpro C compiler.
- - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
- when we're running as a client.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
- an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
- answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
- - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
- hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
- its circuits on demand.
- - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
- require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
- we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
- connections more stable on average.
- - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
- tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
- servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
- o Security bugfixes:
- - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
- cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
- the first time.
- - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
- certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
- handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
- - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
- - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
- don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
- - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
- Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
- o Minor features:
- - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
- discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
- recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
- the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
- routers for even longer.
- - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
- don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
- authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
- - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
- headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
- caching HTTP proxies.
- - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
- address.
- o Minor features, controller:
- - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
- field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
- event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
- a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
- Mike Perry)
- - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
- controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
- - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
- working much like those for circuit events.
- - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
- about the current status of a router.
- - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
- a router's status has changed.
- - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
- can tell which events and features are supported.
- - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
- client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
- o Security bugfixes:
- - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
- cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
- uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
- - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
- service circuits (reported by mwenge).
- - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
- - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
- about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
- long nicknames where appropriate.
- - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
- build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
- - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
- chews through many circuits before giving up.
- - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
- esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
- - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
- stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
- - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
- make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
- not requested.
- - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
- printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
- - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
- for sure!)
- - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
- - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
- corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
- with mmap). This bug was harmless.
- - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
- to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
- make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
- unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
- - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
- (reported by fookoowa).
- - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
- and reported by some Centos users.
- - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
- SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
- - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
- values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
- - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
- Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
- before we check for libevent.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
- o Major features:
- - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
- and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
- - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
- records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
- IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
- now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
- - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
- lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
- - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
- connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
- to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
- - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
- total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
- the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
- - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
- DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
- redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
- DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
- RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
- lets you turn it off.
- - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
- that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
- a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
- us into the directory more quickly.
- o New/improved config options:
- - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
- choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
- - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
- servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
- is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
- all the machines on the same subnet.
- - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
- directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
- if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
- the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
- - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
- for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
- as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
- authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
- to continue being hidden service authorities too.
- - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
- o Minor features, controller:
- - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
- identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
- - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
- of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
- for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
- and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
- for more information.
- - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
- best guess to the user.
- - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
- descriptor has changed.
- - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
- o Minor features, other:
- - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
- requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
- useful to the network.
- - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
- - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
- a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
- authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
- clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
- - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
- For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
- its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
- - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
- to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
- - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
- not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
- - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
- OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
- because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
- o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
- - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
- in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
- could return an unnamed server instead.
- - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
- to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
- and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
- - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
- many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
- a more attractive target for compromise.)
- - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
- able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
- only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
- o Major bugfixes, other:
- - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
- - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
- an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
- Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
- - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
- directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
- - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
- hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
- its circuits on demand.
- - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
- - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
- tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
- servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
- o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
- - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
- documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
- we don't recognize.
- - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
- the first time.
- - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
- from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
- printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
- - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
- "extendcircuit" request.
- - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
- response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
- - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
- is detached.
- - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
- - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
- instead of "X resolved to X".
- - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
- - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
- 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
- authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
- us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
- - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
- 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
- - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
- ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
- an address.
- - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
- ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
- then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
- - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
- result more than once.
- - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
- non-versioning dirservers.
- - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
- via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
- o Minor bugfixes, performance:
- - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
- - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
- algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
- - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
- malloc(0) returns a pointer.
- - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
- a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
- - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
- o Packaging, features:
- - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
- now universal binaries.
- - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
- to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
- - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
- o Packaging, bugfixes:
- - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
- - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
- - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
- building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
- Debian woody.
- - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
- - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
- - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
- o Documentation
- - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
- ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
- - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
- multiple times.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
- directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
- - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
- whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
- do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
- This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
- - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
- it can't resolve its hostname.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
- - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
- "extendcircuit" request.
- - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
- response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
- - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
- more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
- voodoo.
- - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
- uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
- only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
- tolower().
- - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
- methods: these are known to be buggy.
- - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
- documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
- we don't recognize.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
- o Major features:
- - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
- build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
- --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
- - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
- IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
- kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
- error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
- - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
- application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
- 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
- that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
- - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
- this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
- into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
- implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
- without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
- - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
- descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
- as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
- files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
- - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
- /16 network when constructing a circuit.
- - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
- a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
- o Minor features:
- - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
- split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
- These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
- also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
- - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
- or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
- it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
- win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
- recommendation system saner.)
- - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
- to Phobos).
- - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
- don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
- - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
- - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
- - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
- such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
- - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
- haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
- causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
- you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
- - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
- descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
- your ORPort is set.
- - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
- no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
- authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
- long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
- connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
- more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
- 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
- - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
- to have the wrong circ_id_type.
- - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
- bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
- separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
- it is.
- - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
- to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
- we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
- other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
- - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
- and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
- so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
- - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
- if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
- our DirPort now, etc.
- - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
- - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
- move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
- Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
- the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
- - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
- more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
- voodoo.
- - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
- whether the config options are bad or good.
- - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
- address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
- pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
- in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
- eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
- - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
- its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
- back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
- - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
- - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
- when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
- - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
- useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
- - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
- before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
- - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
- - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
- - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
- server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
- - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
- - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
- as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
- of it), is not therefore "up".
- - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
- actually mattered since 0.0.9.
- - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
- throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
- handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
- goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
- due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
- bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
- - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
- - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
- then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
- circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
- changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
- test reachability, so you won't publish.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
- and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
- - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
- a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
- a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
- later than now.
- - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
- own server descriptor yet.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
- reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
- servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
- make sure to test via one of these.
- - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
- descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
- - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
- descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
- servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
- "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
- - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
- o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
- - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
- - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
- directory authority.
- - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
- while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
- exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
- - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
- o Other fixes:
- - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
- - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
- first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
- right after that.
- - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
- and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
- again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
- current guards when picking a new guard.
- - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
- is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
- when we had more than one pending.
- - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
- Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
- a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
- - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
- - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
- - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
- mapaddress. It's none of our business.
- - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
- middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
- debug the reachability problems better.
- o Log / documentation fixes:
- - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
- log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
- about protocol violations by others.
- - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
- - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
- about what happened to our old torrc.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
- o Bugfixes:
- - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
- invalid.
- - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
- - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
- - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
- more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
- o Minor bugs:
- - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
- it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
- - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
- old ORPort and receive connections.
- - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
- GNU/kFreeBSD.
- - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
- Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
- and network-statuses.
- - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
- directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
- - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
- registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
- false positives.
- - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
- o Features:
- - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
- get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
- around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
- o Major fixes:
- - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
- directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
- decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
- - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
- v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
- o Minor fixes:
- - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
- reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
- mirrors.
- - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
- his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
- - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
- - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
- - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
- - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
- files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
- - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
- rather than not sending anything back at all.
- - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
- socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
- leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
- - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
- is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
- - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
- - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
- could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
- clients more convinced that it's recommended.
- - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
- with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
- them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
- to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
- - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
- - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
- Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
- - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
- "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
- - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
- so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
- default ulimit -n is 1024.
- o New features:
- - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
- - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
- for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
- to know about even the non-running descriptors.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
- o Major fixes:
- - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
- connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
- have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
- discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
- entry guards running these flawed versions.
- - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
- was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
- - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
- because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
- include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
- o Minor fixes:
- - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
- - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
- "-Wall -g -O2".
- - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
- and it is confusing some users.
- - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
- - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
- rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
- - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
- win32 versions it thinks it's found.
- o New features:
- - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
- server.
- - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
- message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
- - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
- like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
- top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
- - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
- have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
- - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
- - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
- directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
- dirport is set for now.
- o New config options rather than constants in the code:
- - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
- unattached before we fail it?
- - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
- at least this many seconds ago.
- - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
- at least this many seconds ago.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
- - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
- or resolve-wait stream.
- - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
- to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
- "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
- - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
- can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
- - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
- a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
- when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
- hang up on them.
- - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
- - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
- hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
- - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
- authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
- - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
- given as hex digests.
- - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
- hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
- - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
- - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
- reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
- - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
- for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
- that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
- at the socks side.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
- remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
- - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
- our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
- - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
- there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
- - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
- our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
- interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
- that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
- o New features:
- - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
- directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
- - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
- that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
- SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
- - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
- using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
- o Bugfixes and cleanups:
- - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
- non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
- sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
- misreading their logs.
- - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
- left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
- the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
- descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
- valid router descriptors.
- - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
- command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
- Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
- - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
- (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
- silently resetting it to its default.
- - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
- a whole month.
- - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
- o New features:
- - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
- use clean circuits.
- - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
- for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
- controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
- starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
- command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
- created.
- - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
- because older Tors do not understand it.
- - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
- Thoenen.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
- and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
- - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
- caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
- fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
- - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
- - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
- if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
- not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
- had changed.
- - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
- downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
- - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
- meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
- connections.
- - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
- permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
- o Features:
- - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
- as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
- - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
- and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
- small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
- without getting overloaded.
- - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
- and remove them.
- - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
- picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
- - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
- be forward-compatible.
- - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
- warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
- - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
- dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
- makes sense.
- - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
- ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
- and OR conns to port 443.
- - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
- Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
- target arch.
- - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
- and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
- info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
- PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
- - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
- option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
- Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
- Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
- o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
- sometimes they would trigger an assert.
- o Other important bugfixes:
- - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
- artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
- connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
- connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
- o Backported features:
- - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
- and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
- small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
- without getting overloaded.
- - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
- once more. This will become important once servers start sending
- 503's whenever they feel busy.
- - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
- Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
- directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
- - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
- from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
- o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
- - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
- crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
- - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
- servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
- random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
- know if the crashes continue.
- - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
- somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
- seg faults in at least some cases.)
- - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
- a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
- "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
- o Major fixes:
- - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
- chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
- a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
- try to be a bit more fair.
- - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
- descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
- - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
- were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
- it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
- bug that let it go negative.
- - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
- returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
- a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
- transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
- - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
- artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
- connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
- connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
- - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
- 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
- addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
- o Major features:
- - Clients not longer download descriptors for non-running
- descriptors.
- - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
- clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
- service descriptors.
- o Minor features:
- - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
- try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
- a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
- - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
- do anything about.
- - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
- the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
- versions *are* still recommended.
- - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
- the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
- - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
- will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
- - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
- log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
- - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
- Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
- easily.
- - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
- config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
- that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
- - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
- if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
- - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
- "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
- on it. Not used by clients yet.
- - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
- search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
- - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
- - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
- circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
- - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
- established a circuit.
- - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
- it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
- .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
- that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
- Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
- quickly enough. Oops.
- - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
- o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
- - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
- - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
- races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
- - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
- - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
- - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
- that moment you dump his server descriptor.
- - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
- assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
- - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
- and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
- - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
- your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
- it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
- The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
- o Major features:
- - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
- nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
- when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
- become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
- dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
- config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
- want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
- - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
- fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
- authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
- This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
- - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
- the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
- attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
- to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
- connections more reliable.
- o Major fixes:
- - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
- hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
- the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
- the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
- rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
- - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
- to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
- fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
- server descriptors so clients can't get them.
- - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
- rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
- really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
- - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
- testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
- 20 minutes.
- o Minor fixes:
- - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
- we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
- network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
- obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
- - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
- need to be uint64_t's.
- - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
- to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
- on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
- carefully.
- - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
- setconf/reload.
- - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
- logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
- - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
- circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
- - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
- of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
- - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
- connections.
- - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
- a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
- - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
- "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
- - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
- meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
- descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
- - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
- the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
- - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
- requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
- - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
- line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
- o Minor features:
- - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
- keeping forward and backward compatibility.
- - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
- now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
- - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
- not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
- go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
- to bootstrap.
- - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
- cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
- - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
- can answer v2 directory requests too.
- - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
- they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
- it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
- - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
- of fields.
- - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
- server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
- line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
- - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
- a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
- revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
- - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
- "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
- refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
- - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
- - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
- get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
- - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
- docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
- - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
- are known.
- - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
- latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
- o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
- corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
- the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
- - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
- too -- so detect and avoid this.
- - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
- giving an error).
- - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
- - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
- stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
- - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
- don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
- - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
- connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
- - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
- rendezvous circuits.
- - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
- o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
- messages so the operator knows what to expect.
- - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
- advertising it because of hibernation.
- - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
- - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
- that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
- that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
- - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
- us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
- - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
- the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
- - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
- - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
- exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
- policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
- as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
- reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
- o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
- corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
- the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
- - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
- Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
- - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
- stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
- - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
- connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
- - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
- that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
- that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
- - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
- broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
- connections once a week.
- - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
- us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
- - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
- would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
- servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
- - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
- build with -ldl.
- - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
- rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
- - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
- o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
- the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
- humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
- - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
- don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
- - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
- . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
- . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
- firewall options forbid.
- . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
- firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
- can only proxy to certain destinations.
- - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
- circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
- introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
- useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
- aids some statistical attacks.
- - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
- It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
- have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
- exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
- flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
- server descriptor sometimes.
- - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
- - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
- sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
- - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
- user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
- the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
- controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
- option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
- DirServer lines.
- - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
- case the controller wants to change that too.
- - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
- accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
- - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
- chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
- be verified.
- - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
- circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
- address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
- otherwise.
- - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
- descriptors that they know they will reject.
- o Features and updates:
- - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
- significantly faster.
- - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
- rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
- - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
- - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
- do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
- already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
- - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
- applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
- socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
- with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
- - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
- lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
- and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
- since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
- - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
- you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
- every single internal or nonroutable network space.
- - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
- all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
- as authoritative dirserver.
- - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
- tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
- - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
- o Usability improvements:
- - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
- since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
- or port.
- - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
- them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
- lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
- by default.
- - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
- of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
- log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
- - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
- instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
- - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
- string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
- - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
- memory leaks better.
- - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
- default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
- their operators to pay close attention.
- - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
- a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
- o Performance improvements:
- - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
- haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
- tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
- minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
- - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
- - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
- can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
- to resolve a performance bottleneck.
- - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
- truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
- descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
- DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
- - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
- 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
- translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
- - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
- of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
- o Security improvements:
- - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
- clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
- fingerprint of server.
- - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
- to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
- weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
- more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
- crash bug. It might also slow things down.
- - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
- keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
- each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
- periodically, so it's not so bad.)
- - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
- node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
- already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
- - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
- upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
- - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
- connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
- space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
- feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
- been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
- - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
- we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
- option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
- - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
- - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
- it as obsolete.
- - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
- generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
- we do.
- - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
- server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
- content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
- fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
- - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
- of the controller protocol.
- - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
- are suppressing it because of hibernation.
- - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
- o New features (major):
- - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
- download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
- and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
- See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
- - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
- The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
- and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
- we're using a default DirPort.
- - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
- o New features (minor):
- - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
- server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
- - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
- mirrors still cache and serve it).
- - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
- an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
- deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
- - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
- config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
- useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
- and usable even if we know they're jerks.
- - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
- of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
- - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
- - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
- without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
- - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
- how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
- us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
- responses.
- - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
- using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
- link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
- HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
- - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
- - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
- OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
- startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
- o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
- - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
- version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
- - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
- v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
- - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
- - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
- to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
- - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
- its expected nickname if is_named is set.
- o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
- - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
- try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
- - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
- so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
- o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
- out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
- through privoxy.
- - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
- even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
- for this case.
- - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
- - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
- use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
- - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
- warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
- don't warn twice about the same name.
- - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
- if we've not heard of the server.
- - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
- - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
- - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
- try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
- - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
- only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
- be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
- - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
- so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
- - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
- - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
- most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
- - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
- o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
- - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
- connection to an address not in their exit policy.
- - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
- cause a segfault.
- - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
- fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
- - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
- - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
- out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
- - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
- unreachability.
- o New features:
- - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
- It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
- nickname) is reachable by you.
- - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
- enabled yet.
- o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
- we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
- [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
- November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
- - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
- It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
- - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
- from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
- we fail to connect).
- - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
- - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
- service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
- back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
- that anyway.
- - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
- it was self-testing that told us so.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
- o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
- - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
- - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
- - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
- - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
- - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
- - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
- - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
- exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
- 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
- exit policy using him for any exits.
- - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
- at least 0.9.7.
- o New controller features/fixes:
- - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
- AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
- a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
- entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
- - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
- - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
- - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
- - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
- other redundant entries to the torrc file.
- o Start on the new directory design:
- - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
- - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
- "tell me yours").
- - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
- - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
- compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
- descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
- memory-efficient.
- - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
- from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
- - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
- - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
- moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
- - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
- support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
- to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
- o New features:
- - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
- Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
- be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
- it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
- - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
- destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
- which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
- that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
- authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
- use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
- if you can.
- - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
- controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
- changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
- worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
- - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
- hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
- - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
- log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
- Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
- o Config option changes:
- - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
- ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
- For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
- - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
- only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
- o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
- people have started using them for spam too.
- - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
- reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
- has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
- servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
- high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
- suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
- - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
- was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
- - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
- CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
- CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
- build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
- - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
- services faster on the service end.
- - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
- should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
- from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
- it a fair shake next time we try.
- - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
- - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
- - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
- server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
- we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
- - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
- We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
- able to discover them.
- - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
- - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
- are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
- problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
- preferentially resolving them to partition users.
- - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
- as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
- testing for reachability.
- - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
- more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
- to the torrc.
- - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
- option.
- - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
- run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
- o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
- torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
- it would silently using ignore the 6668.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
- (CVE-2005-2643).
- - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
- controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
- o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
- o Features:
- - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
- - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
- - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
- options, getinfo keys.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
- - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
- it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
- - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
- pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
- in the start menu.
- - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
- new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
- not-broken.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
- - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
- function.
- - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
- function.
- - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
- - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
- circuit events and we go offline.
- - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
- - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
- you don't have enough intro points already.
- o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
- - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
- many bytes we've used in this time period.
- - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
- a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
- nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
- stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
- enabled by default yet.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
- - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
- even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
- - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
- it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
- o New directory servers:
- - tor26 has changed IP address.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
- - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
- pthreads libraries.
- - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
- claims its dirport is 0.
- - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
- getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
- Edman for the fix.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
- o New directory servers:
- - tor26 has changed IP address.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
- - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
- 0.1.0.11.
- - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
- - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
- closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
- ports that have changed.
- - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
- - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
- Windows-style errno back.
- - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
- they
- want to make it an NT service.
- - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
- - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
- name, give the full name in our response.
- - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
- - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
- running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
- - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
- pthreads libraries.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
- being used.
- o Features:
- - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
- let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
- in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
- - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
- entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
- exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
- - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
- confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
- - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
- - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
- o Bugfixes:
- - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
- confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
- - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
- - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
- - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
- private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
- fix it.
- - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
- temporarily unreachable.
- - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
- culling them.
- o Features:
- - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
- than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
- can use the controller from your applications without caring how
- our protocol works.
- - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
- test this?
- Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
- - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
- maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
- arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
- (CVE-2005-2050).
- Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
- o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
- libevent before 1.1a.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
- o Bugfixes:
- - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
- a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
- - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
- - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
- - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
- Administrator.
- - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
- cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
- - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
- OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
- OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
- of CPU time plus memory.
- - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
- normal web requests.
- - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
- tor_lookup_hostname().
- - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
- already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
- - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
- - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
- - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
- - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
- on FreeBSD)
- - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
- KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
- HttpProxyAuthenticator
- - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
- pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
- - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
- certain
- installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
- the user asks you to.
- - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
- addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
- IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
- their descriptors are being rejected.
- - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
- come later.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
- o Bugfixes:
- - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
- panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
- - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
- spec file.
- - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
- reentrant either.
- - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
- ancient.
- - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
- - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
- version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
- to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
- even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
- - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
- a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
- keys) from the exit server's process.
- - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
- have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
- - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
- so it doesn't seg fault on error.
- - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
- point at your Tor server.
- - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
- you're not sending a socks reply back.
- o Features:
- - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
- the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
- - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
- to make it easier to write controllers.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
- installing on Tiger.
- - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
- complain during installation.
- - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
- CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
- - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
- after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
- if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
- assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
- error message.
- - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
- something more reasonable when first installing.
- - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
- netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
- functions.
- - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
- release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
- - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
- addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
- when using the default exit policy.
- - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
- a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
- - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
- LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
- - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
- - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
- from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
- - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
- it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
- we fetched a new directory.
- - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
- libevent warning on some Linuxes.
- o Features:
- - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
- the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
- - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
- reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
- it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
- - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
- these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
- provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
- clients yet.
- - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
- contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
- - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
- save memory on systems that need to fork.
- - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
- - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
- is valid without actually launching Tor.
- - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
- rather than just rejecting it.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
- we didn't like its cert.
- o Features:
- - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
- to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
- - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
- on patch from Adam Langley.
- - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
- the fast servers that have been joining lately.
- - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
- since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
- robustness more.
- - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
- directory every time you regenerate it.
- - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
- pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
- Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
- backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
- o Bugfixes:
- - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
- Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
- TLS errors better in other situations too.
- - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
- logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
- telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
- track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
- and don't log when you are.
- - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
- non-complete success, only say "done" once.
- o Features:
- - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
- of advertised bandwidth capacity.
- - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
- testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
- publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
- o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
- - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
- 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
- - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
- - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
- now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
- - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
- but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
- nickname+key are allowed.
- - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
- and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
- descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
- about all other descriptors for that address:port.
- - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
- Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
- he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
- have quite wrong clocks).
- - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
- be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
- - Efficiency improvements:
- - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
- it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
- - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
- since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
- - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
- dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
- lowercase and be done with it.
- - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
- if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
- to abandon partially built circuits.
- - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
- per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
- yell so much.
- - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
- exit policy.
- - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
- be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
- Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
- - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
- fails.
- - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
- It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
- - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
- descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
- obeying the exit policy internally.
- - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
- connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
- connection_free().
- - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
- the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
- when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
- cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
- - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
- leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
- - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
- circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
- get the nodes.
- - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
- not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
- run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
- to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
- - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
- fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
- right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
- fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
- descriptors we just dropped.
- - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
- than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
- dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
- - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
- artificially capped at 500kB.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
- cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
- thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
- established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
- busy for more than 100 seconds.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
- - Fixes on reachability detection:
- - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
- - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
- descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
- - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
- high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
- - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
- DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
- - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
- initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
- we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
- and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
- - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
- since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
- server not already connected to them.
- - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
- Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
- bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
- obsolete.)
- - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
- right then.
- - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
- - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
- are in a different state than they actually are.
- - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
- win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
- features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
- libevent log msgs.
- - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
- - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
- - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
- o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
- - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
- work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
- fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
- have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
- - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
- that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
- via addresses like
- "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
- - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
- the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
- cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
- - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
- a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
- extending to unknown routers. Oops.
- - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
- creating actual system users.
- - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
- a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
- in 0.1.0.x).
- Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
- o New features:
- - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
- to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
- and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
- - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
- hidden services better.
- - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
- config option.
- - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
- rejecting most low-numbered ports.
- - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
- http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
- including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
- redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
- closestream; closecircuit; etc.
- - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
- patch by Matt Edman).
- - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
- addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
- required exit node for certain sites.
- - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
- for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
- your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
- - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
- - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
- - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
- potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
- rather than just "success" or "failure".
- - A more sane version numbering system. See
- http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
- - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
- parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
- addresses/ports.
- - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
- Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
- - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
- servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
- - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
- a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
- allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
- o Robustness/stability fixes:
- - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
- poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
- cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
- on Windows too.
- - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
- we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
- to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
- threadsafeness.
- - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
- - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
- and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
- appropriate nodes.
- - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
- not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
- - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
- that will want high uptime circuits.
- - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
- hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
- - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
- clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
- - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
- - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
- regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
- circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
- and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
- - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
- to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
- circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
- uptime if we've seen that lately too).
- - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
- which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
- ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
- how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
- - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
- circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
- when we try to launch one.
- - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
- rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
- - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
- "ShutdownWaitLength".
- - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
- things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
- - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
- - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
- and to take errno into account where possible.
- o Bug fixes:
- - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
- pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
- - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
- a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
- - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
- file more reasonable.
- - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
- into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
- addresses -- it won't.
- - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
- help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
- for google.com" problem.
- - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
- so it's not just "unknown platform".
- - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
- If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
- - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
- contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
- they're malformed.
- - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
- they could use instead.
- - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
- right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
- means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
- already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
- - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
- recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
- same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
- series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
- A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
- the same series.
- - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
- the socks reject.
- o Helpful fixes:
- - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
- - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
- it was.
- - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
- Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
- private-IP addresses.
- - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
- actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
- for now.
- - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
- smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
- - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
- has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
- - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
- - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
- that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
- wrong.
- - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
- cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
- to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
- - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
- launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
- - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
- - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
- - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
- we're leaking.
- - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
- addresses.
- - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
- ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
- - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
- whether the server is hibernating.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
- - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
- reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
- - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
- - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
- blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
- checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
- sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
- - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
- inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
- - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
- - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
- you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
- other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
- - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
- - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
- speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
- - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
- into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
- resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
- because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
- yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
- - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
- existing torrc files.
- - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
- Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
- - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
- - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
- support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
- - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
- the win32 SYSTEM account.
- - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
- - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
- file descriptors available.
- - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
- - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
- seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
- a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
- freak out.
- - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
- of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
- - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
- - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
- file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
- logs, etc.
- - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
- ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
- - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
- - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
- - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
- - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
- not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
- have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
- cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
- - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
- 800kB/s of capacity.
- - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
- Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
- need as much processor time.
- - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
- run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
- optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
- application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
- human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
- - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
- long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
- shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
- - Enable Mac startup script by default.
- - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
- - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
- controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
- resetting.
- - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
- the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
- - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
- will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
- - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
- now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
- itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
- - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
- to a file.
- - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
- style address, then we'd crash.
- - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
- a dirserver is broken.
- - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
- may work better.
- - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
- where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
- doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
- - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
- name out of the warning/assert messages.
- - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
- - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
- license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
- take any away.
- - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
- immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
- - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
- DataDirectory.
- - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
- - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
- - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
- confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
- values at once couldn't work.
- - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
- if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
- being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
- - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
- strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
- they can handle any number of routers.
- - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
- - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
- - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
- nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
- - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
- - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
- writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
- - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
- now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Make hibernation actually work.
- - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
- - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
- don't use the stream status code.
- Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
- o Cleanups:
- - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
- - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
- o Mistakes:
- - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
- - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
- - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
- ports we need to build circuits to cover.
- - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
- we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
- - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
- - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
- LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
- - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
- but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
- - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
- - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
- - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
- - Make unit tests work on win32.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
- - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
- we think).
- - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
- - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
- than just chopping them off.
- - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
- we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
- it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
- right after sending the begin cell.
- - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
- of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
- exit nodes too. Oops.
- o Features:
- - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
- used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
- or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
- 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
- - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
- - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
- the user knows which one it's talking about.
- - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
- just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
- unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
- - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
- forever.
- - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
- - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
- but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
- finding it.
- - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
- instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
- even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
- Clip rather than rejecting.
- - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
- authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
- o Features:
- - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
- - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
- - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
- address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
- by Geoff Goodell.
- - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
- win32 socket errors better.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
- - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
- so we don't see those messages days later.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
- - Make tor-resolve work again.
- - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
- - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
- - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
- - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
- and seconds.
- - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
- they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
- long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
- Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
- With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
- we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
- socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
- eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
- bytes sitting in the inbuf.
- - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
- - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
- - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
- 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
- them too.)
- - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
- - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
- o Features:
- - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
- hibernation properties by
- AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
- AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
- Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
- - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
- kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
- - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
- get back to normal.)
- - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
- pick it anyway.
- - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
- once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
- to fill the last cell completely.
- - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
- - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
- half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
- because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
- as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
- - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
- write() call will fail and we handle it there.
- - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
- and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
- - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
- - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
- 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
- - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
- - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
- it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
- - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
- down a lot.
- - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
- - Make kill -USR1 work again.
- - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
- of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
- - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
- have it on start-up.
- o Features:
- - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
- running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
- - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
- - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
- - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
- - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
- - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
- configuration to torrc.
- - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
- - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
- - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
- But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
- - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
- we catch.
- - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
- - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
- - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
- ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
- - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
- log more informatively.
- - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
- - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
- - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
- servers and clients to have any clock skew.
- - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
- - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
- - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
- - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
- - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
- - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
- from each other, to hinder linkability.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
- - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
- - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
- the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
- - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
- INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
- bug).
- - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
- - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
- Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
- they ran out of file descriptors.
- - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
- enough version of the resolve code to work right.
- - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
- - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
- that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
- with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
- don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
- recent enough.
- - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
- o Major Features:
- - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
- set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
- consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
- month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
- at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
- hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
- specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
- - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
- client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
- notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
- bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
- Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
- - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
- with the control port.
- - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
- use in authenticating to the control interface.
- - New log format in config:
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
- o Minor Features:
- - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
- from their dirserver.
- - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
- and then exit.
- - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
- out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
- - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
- them act more like real nodes.
- - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
- - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
- is broken.
- - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
- nickname to its identity key.
- - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
- not on the command line.
- - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
- - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
- 1024) file descriptors.
- o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
- - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
- hey.)
- - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
- - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
- - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
- - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
- exit policy, not reject *:*.
- - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
- descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
- an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
- - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
- configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
- - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
- - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
- o Features:
- - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
- specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
- with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
- - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
- specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
- - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
- server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
- - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
- - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
- the ones we find in directories.)
- - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
- bit platforms.
- - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
- as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
- the dirserver.
- - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
- close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
- would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
- - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
- provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
- - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
- corruption.
- - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
- - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
- any more exit policy lines.
- o Features:
- - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
- - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
- - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
- parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
- - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
- - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
- repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
- default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
- - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
- will be able to get a directory.
- - Http proxy support
- - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
- - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
- be routed through this host.
- - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
- This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
- - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
- with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
- Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
- clients/servers with an open dirport.
- - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
- our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
- - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
- intermittent connections.
- - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
- - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
- reattaches.
- - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
- in reporting stats locally.
- - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
- immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
- - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
- o Bugfixes:
- - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
- - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
- Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
- empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
- if you don't want it open.
- - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
- - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
- intermittent connections.
- - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
- happier.
- - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
- more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
- circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
- connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
- a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
- - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
- crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
- there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
- which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
- - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
- before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
- assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
- the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
- - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
- our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
- o Features:
- - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
- of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
- - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
- lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
- - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
- options.
- - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
- appropriate.
- - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
- We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
- specified in HTTP 1.0.
- - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
- - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
- than once per minute.
- - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
- 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
- Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
- o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
- Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
- o Make it compile on cygwin again.
- o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
- low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
- Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
- o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
- - Bugfixes:
- - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
- don't put it into the client dns cache.
- - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
- should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
- until we get our next directory.
- - Features:
- - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
- - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
- - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
- options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
- detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
- - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
- ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
- which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
- - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
- has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
- - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
- "GET /".
- - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
- an exitnode.
- - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
- we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
- or exit nodes.
- - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
- IP address for outgoing connect()s.
- - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
- o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
- - Bugfixes:
- - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
- - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
- - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
- - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
- routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
- - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
- we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
- - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
- directory.
- - Features:
- - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
- routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
- Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
- - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
- Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
- o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
- ask them to resolve the host "".
- Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
- o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
- - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
- people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
- another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
- - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
- snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
- - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
- running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
- clients don't use this yet.)
- - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
- at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
- - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
- function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
- for pointing out this bug.)
- - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
- fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
- - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
- kazaa, gnutella ports.
- - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
- o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
- - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
- hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
- - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
- - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
- just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
- - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
- don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
- - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
- wolf unpredictably.
- - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
- that's still handshaking.
- - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
- you'll choose it for your path.
- - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
- end relay cell, etc.
- - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
- - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
- directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
- Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
- o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
- - Security fixes:
- - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
- you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
- - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
- list to decide who's running or verified.
- - Bugfixes and features:
- - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
- end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
- - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
- are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
- - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
- which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
- o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
- - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
- - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
- know you might want to get it verified.
- - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
- Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
- itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
- - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
- everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
- o Protocol changes:
- - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
- intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
- extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
- hadn't heard of before.
- o Features:
- - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
- without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
- - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
- by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
- - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
- list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
- - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
- nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
- - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
- But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
- - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
- - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
- - Directory caching.
- - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
- - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
- directory they've pulled down.
- - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
- - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
- DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
- - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
- authdirservers, to stay better synced.
- - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
- if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
- by hash-of-key).
- - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
- This isn't used yet.
- - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
- - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
- connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
- - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
- and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
- clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
- - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
- connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
- - File and name management:
- - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
- - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
- as datadir.
- - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
- - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
- - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
- - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
- to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
- - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
- it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
- to use.
- - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
- should tolerate down dirservers better now.
- - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
- rather than an is-in-the-list check.
- - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
- locally.
- - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
- - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
- interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
- - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
- - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
- - Write tor version at the top of each log file
- - New docs in the tarball:
- - tor-doc.html.
- - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
- Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
- o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
- eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
- Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
- o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
- since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
- Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
- o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
- Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
- o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
- - Make it build on Win32 again.
- o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
- - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
- settings too.
- Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
- o Bugfixes:
- - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
- one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
- - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
- problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
- the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
- list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
- - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
- resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
- - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
- we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
- easily.
- o Features:
- - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
- Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
- o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
- - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
- to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
- them.
- - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
- would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
- give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
- exit nodes.
- - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
- hidden service per 15-minute period.
- - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
- the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
- even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
- o Fixes for security bugs:
- - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
- random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
- a trusted dirserver.
- o Other bugfixes:
- - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
- start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
- - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
- didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
- but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
- - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
- will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
- - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
- arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
- - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
- have failed.
- - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
- - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
- - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
- breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
- o Features:
- - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
- - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
- now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
- - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
- directory (not that we were anywhere close).
- - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
- - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
- separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
- option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
- - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
- Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
- - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
- to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
- Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
- o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
- not the previous cells like we'd thought.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
- o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
- onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
- out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
- polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
- server.
- Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
- [version bump only]
- Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
- o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
- o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
- to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
- reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
- then dies.
- o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
- Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
- o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
- circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
- when they had a stream attached. oops.)
- o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
- o Better debugging for tls errors
- o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
- returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
- o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
- o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
- o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
- o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
- o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
- o win32's close can't close a socket.
- Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
- o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
- It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
- happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
- operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
- it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
- o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
- When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
- 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
- o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
- just close the circ.
- o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
- o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
- (this was quite rare).
- Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
- o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
- o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
- if you decrypted them correctly.
- o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
- o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
- o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
- Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
- o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
- - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
- - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
- a second one and it works.
- - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
- it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
- alice would just have to wait to time out.
- - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
- points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
- again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
- sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
- - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
- as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
- socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
- now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
- i'd still like to find the bug though.
- - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
- count it as a nack
- - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
- ones. oops.
- Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
- o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
- - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
- circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
- he retries a couple of times
- - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
- (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
- - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
- too long (they were sticking around forever).
- - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
- a strict glibc.
- Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
- o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
- - make hup work again
- - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
- - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
- handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
- - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
- the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
- - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
- again
- - bob publishes intro points more correctly
- o changes from 0.0.5:
- - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
- of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
- - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
- exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
- (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
- is flaky).
- - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
- approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
- in-memory directories too
- Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
- o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
- Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
- o Features:
- - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
- http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
- hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
- Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
- Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
- [version bump only]
- Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
- o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
- torrc. (Woo!)
- o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
- o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
- but that aren't warnings
- Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
- o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
- o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
- the dns farm to do it.
- o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
- o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
- directory.
- o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
- rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
- o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
- Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
- o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
- o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
- using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
- This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
- o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
- expect it to have a nickname.
- o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
- early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
- Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
- o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
- we would crash.
- Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
- o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
- o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
- - include missing header fcntl.h
- - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
- - deal with hardware word alignment
- - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
- - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
- o Preliminary work on reputation system:
- - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
- by kill -USR1 currently.
- - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
- circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
- - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
- Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
- - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
- - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
- now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
- - And fix a few endian issues.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
- o New features:
- - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
- try that circuit again: try a new one.
- - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
- - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
- logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
- accept it even without mail from the server operator).
- - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
- - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
- about as a server.
- - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
- - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
- (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
- simply not true.
- - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
- expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
- side isn't reading right then.
- - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
- RecommendedVersions
- - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
- - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
- - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
- o New features:
- - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
- we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
- e.g. poblano.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
- crashed.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
- a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
- - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
- connection is finished.
- - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
- flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
- - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
- - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
- - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
- will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
- - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
- - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
- rather than warn and continue.
- - Make --version work
- - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
- o New features:
- - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
- knows it's working.
- - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
- send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
- clearly thwarted.)
- - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
- - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
- so you can collect coredumps there.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
- didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
- a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
- - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
- dns cache actually gets populated.
- - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
- - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
- end cell down it first.
- - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
- excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
- o New features:
- - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
- - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
- errors happen.
- - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
- Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
- - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
- 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
- - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
- their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
- it.
- - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
- then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
- think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
- - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
- - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
- Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
- dirservers.
- - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
- many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
- o New features:
- - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
- - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
- tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
- tor. It even has a man page.
- - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
- - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
- - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
- so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
- his/her torrc.
- - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
- o Bugfixes:
- - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
- o New features:
- - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
- it, apt-getters. :)
- - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
- bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
- BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
- kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
- BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
- performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
- - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
- than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
- may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
- - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
- from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
- to new ones.
- - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
- have them reattach to new circuits instead.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
- after a while.
- - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
- - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
- closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
- inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
- weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
- eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
- open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
- - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
- - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
- logfile so you know it's working.
- - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
- - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
- - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
- AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
- - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
- adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
- o Features:
- - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
- to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
- - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
- with MorphMix).
- - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
- - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
- relay cells.
- - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
- messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
- use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
- this hop.
- - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
- breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
- been made so far.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
- - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
- counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
- o Features:
- - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
- open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
- the circuit and then we open streams at him.
- - Add port ranges to exit policies
- - Add a conservative default exit policy
- - Warn if you're running tor as root
- - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
- - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
- - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
- your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
- exit nodes.
- - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
- really screw things up.
- - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
- working.
- - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
- handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
- established.
- - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
- - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
- - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
- - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
- - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
- - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
- o Configuration:
- - Change default loglevel to warn.
- - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
- - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
- ORPort>0.
- - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
- - to get ownership/permissions right
- - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
- - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
- pull down a directory again
- - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
- causing server crashes
- - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
- - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
- - exit if bind() fails
- - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
- - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
- - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
- - fix minor bias in PRNG
- - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote the design document (woo)
- o Circuit building and exit policies:
- - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
- are down.
- - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
- bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
- - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
- exists, rather than failing
- - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
- which AP connections are standing by
- - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
- - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
- - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
- circuit.
- - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
- - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
- o Configuration:
- - APPort is now called SocksPort
- - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
- where to bind
- - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
- hardcoded (for dirservers)
- - Reloads config on HUP
- - Usage info on -h or --help
- - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
- o General stability:
- - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
- of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
- - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
- - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
- - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
- to take down the network when I approve a new router
- - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
- o Buffers:
- - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
- - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
- o Autoconf improvements:
- - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
- - Make install now works
- - create var/lib/tor on make install
- - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
- - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
- o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
- - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
- - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
- - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup
|