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- Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-07-xx
- o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
- - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
- reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
- o Major features:
- - Implements most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be send
- along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K
- "early" cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we
- can block certain kinds of DOS attack by only allowing EXTEND
- commands in these cells.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
- or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
- on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
- on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
- - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
- with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
- is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
- o Minor features:
- - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
- to just our our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we
- tend to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry
- guard, which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part
- of bug 654; patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
- - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
- that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
- allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
- - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
- ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
- - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes
- to be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number
- of servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
- - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_hop, n_port,
- and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
- only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
- logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
- "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
- - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
- warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
- eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
- - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
- that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
- don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
- Bugfix on 0.0.9.3.
- - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
- HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
- and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
- 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
- - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks. Spotted
- by rovv.
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
- is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
- o Removed features
- - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support servers running
- versions of Tor so old as to no longer work at all on the Tor network.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
- o Major bugfixes:
- - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
- you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
- on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
- found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
- so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
- connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
- pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
- digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
- and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
- were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
- instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
- - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
- and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
- circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
- so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
- more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
- scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
- - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
- their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
- ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
- address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
- some GCCs don't like
- Fixes bug 707.
- - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
- Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
- - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
- O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
- bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
- - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
- require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
- from coderman.
- - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
- stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be
- trying session resumption at this point, but apparently some
- did, in ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug found by Geoff Goodell.
- Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
- Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
- make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
- big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
- offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
- API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
- o Major features:
- - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
- previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
- bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
- you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
- on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
- found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
- so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
- and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
- all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
- same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
- originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
- included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
- reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
- from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
- o Minor features:
- - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
- - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
- This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
- proposal 138.
- - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
- fingerprints with or without space.
- - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
- controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
- partway through and wants to catch up.
- - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
- state to start out in.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
- would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
- consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
- - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
- #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.x.
- o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
- - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
- problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
- some of the connection attempts fail.
- - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
- bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
- problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
- - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
- as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
- for ten failures
- ten bridges.
- - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
- pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
- events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
- Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
- Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
- were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
- handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
- the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
- problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
- and adds a variety of smaller features.
- o Major features:
- - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
- of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
- closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
- we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
- know about.
- - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
- so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
- information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
- if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
- proposal 137.
- - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
- cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
- stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
- called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
- bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
- at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
- we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
- older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
- new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
- faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
- 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
- o Memory fixes and improvements:
- - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
- to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
- - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
- stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
- this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
- on a typical directory cache.
- - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
- descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
- router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
- and may reduce fragmentation.
- - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
- most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
- - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
- buffers.
- - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
- patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
- patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
- before too long.
- - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
- compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
- or both.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
- run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
- it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
- done that for a long time.
- - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
- published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
- service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
- that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
- o Minor features:
- - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
- domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
- or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
- higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
- - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
- and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
- GCC 4.3.
- - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
- disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
- output to messages of warning and error severity.
- - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
- allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
- The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
- it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
- new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
- 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
- - New configure/torrc options (
- DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
- directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
- total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
- directory requests we should expect to see.
- - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
- behavior.
- - Lots of new unit tests.
- - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
- two parallel lists in lockstep.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
- Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
- performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
- o Anonymity fixes:
- - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
- put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
- clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
- anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
- the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
- set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
- or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
- were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
- the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.14-alpha.
- o Minor features:
- - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
- - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
- many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
- to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
- the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
- for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.27-rc.
- - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
- include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
- - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
- Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
- bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
- logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
- tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
- - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
- - Fix compile on Windows.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
- Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
- release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
- GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
- given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
- summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
- 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
- o Major features:
- - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
- relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
- o Minor features:
- - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
- Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
- - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
- - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
- on mingw.
- - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
- - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
- operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
- circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
- to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
- - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
- from time to time.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
- Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
- in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
- should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
- o Major security fixes:
- - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
- moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
- a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
- considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
- with an affected version of OpenSSL.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
- lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- o Minor features:
- - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
- authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
- Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
- Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
- startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
- exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
- Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
- v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
- DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
- rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
- it has been down for months.
- - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
- authority.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
- relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
- o Minor features (security):
- - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
- a private address space. Patch from lodger.
- - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
- from lodger.
- o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
- - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
- directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
- service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
- - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
- running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
- - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
- logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
- bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
- - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
- at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
- - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
- leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
- - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
- shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
- platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
- generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
- based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
- - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
- using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
- pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
- - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
- - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
- preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
- Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
- untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
- - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
- by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
- spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
- Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
- - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
- failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
- Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
- makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
- is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
- that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
- fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
- retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
- Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
- enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
- some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
- other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
- o Major features:
- - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
- so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
- plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
- certain censored countries by default again.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
- TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
- - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
- the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
- diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
- - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
- became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
- - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
- "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
- - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
- look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
- at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
- Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
- order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
- - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
- a directory. Fix from lodger.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
- - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
- - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
- left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
- silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
- RelayBandwidth* values.
- - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
- - Make
- CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
- - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
- - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
- get_interface_address6().
- - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
- HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
- - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
- 16k pages on ia64.
- - Detect mismatched page sizes when using
- - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
- .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
- for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
- all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
- bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
- - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
- actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
- Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- o Minor features:
- - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
- - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
- make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
- Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
- makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
- and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
- 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
- when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
- bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
- - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
- This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
- symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
- - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
- network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
- OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
- from lodger, Karsten Loesing and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
- Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
- makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
- hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
- know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
- allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
- sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
- o Major features:
- - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
- Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
- includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
- proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
- to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
- man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
- feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
- in the future.
- - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
- rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
- bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
- - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
- stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
- Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
- and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
- - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
- would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
- 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
- by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
- authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
- is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
- them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
- - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
- of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
- the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
- made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
- connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
- are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
- to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
- saved to disk by SAVECONF
- pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
- each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
- automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
- only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
- o Minor features (performance):
- - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
- RAM overhead used.
- - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
- replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
- with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
-
- - Add a
- against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
- non-system include paths.
- - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
- used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
- Sebastian Hahn.
- o Minor features (other):
- - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
- errors.
- - When building with
- warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
- - Add a
- scriptability.
- o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
- - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
- cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
- - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
- Dan Kaminsky.
- - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
- version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
- directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
- - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
- Should fix bug 537.
- - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
- errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
- unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
- tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
- it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
- a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
- - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
- - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
- address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
- network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
- - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
- - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
- cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
- - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
- example, when answering a directory request), reset the
- time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
- on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
- so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
- - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
- work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
- - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
- as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
- Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
- the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
- - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
- correctly.
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
- and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
- more easily.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
- Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
- handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
- guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
- for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
- o Major features:
- - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
- Tor's x509 certificates.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
- a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
- reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
- mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
- IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Minor features (security):
- - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
- as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
- o Minor features (directory authority):
- - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
- AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
- - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
- bandwidthburst values.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
- processes from running us out of memory.
- o Minor features (misc):
- - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
- hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
- - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
- of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
- o Deprecated features (controller):
- - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
- GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
- treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
- being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
- listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
- recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
- the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
- a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
- library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.x.
- - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
- signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
- Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
- private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
- - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
- with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
- port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
- connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
- - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
- seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
- script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
- cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
- introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
- Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
- type-safety.
- - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
- from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
- assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
- send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
- - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
- needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
- Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
- fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
- that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
- vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
- authority.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
- handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
- - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
- code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
- renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
- - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
- responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
- asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
- fixes bug 593.
- o Major features:
- - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
- relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
- decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
- - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
- estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
- handle more, do another bandwidth test.
- - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
- Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
- vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
- 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
- listeners. Reported by mwenge.
- - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
- we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
- by Kyle Williams.
- o Minor features:
- - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
- the request isn't encrypted.
- - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
- - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
- robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
- retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
- already have a usable v0 rend desc.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
- Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
- o Compile fixes:
- - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
- Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
- Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
- authority.
- o Major performance improvements:
- - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
- used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
- of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
- also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
- memory fragmentation.
- o Minor features:
- - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
- helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
- file format, such as newline or
- - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
- responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
- there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
- bodies when they receive them.
- - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
- to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
- on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
- o Minor performance improvements:
- - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
- of them were actually distinct.
- - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
- interested in a given message.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
- download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
- - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
- use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
- list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
- bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
- - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
- and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
- anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
- - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.15-alpha.
- - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
- to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
- - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
- estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
- this country" and "1 person from this country".
- - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
- - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
- crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
- - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
- directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.
- - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
- router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
- - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.
- - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
- but client versions are not.
- - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
- port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
- happened.
- - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
- compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
- left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
- - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
- - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
- error conditions.
- - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
- control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
- network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
- 0.2.0.9-alpha.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
- - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
- that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
- - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
- o Minor features (directory authorities):
- - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
- servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
- running a test network on a single host.
- - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
- - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
- o Minor features (bridges):
- - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
- unencrypted connections.
- o Minor features (other):
- - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
- Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
- ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
- this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
- Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
- exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
- exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
- o Security fixes:
- - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
- relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
- ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
- many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
- on network address.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
- buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
- - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
- on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
- - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
- service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
- - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
- requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
- crashing or mis-answering these requests.
- - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
- not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
- purpose. Fixes bug 539.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
- rebuild our server descriptor.
- - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
- networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
- unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
- - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
- in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
- nonstandard integer types.
- - Don't try to create the datadir when running
-
- - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
- directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
- that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
- by lodger.
- - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
- responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
- that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
- when they receive them.
- - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
- This includes some 64-bit systems.
- - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
- the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
- from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
- - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
- - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
- router_get_by_hexdigest().
- - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
- port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
- happened.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
- Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
- features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
- for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
- was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
- would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
- when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
- - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
- estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
- compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
- - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
- previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
- ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
- on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
- - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
- self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
- o Minor features:
- - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
- To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
- without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
- by Zax.
- - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
- unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
- fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
- aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
- time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
- on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
- Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
- - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
- currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.13-alpha.
- o Major features:
- - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
- snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
- anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Make the unit tests build again.
- - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
- - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
- have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
- - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
- be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
- bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
- identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
- the next one as a duplicate.
- o Minor features:
- - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
- PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
- - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
- RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
- Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
- Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
- upcoming features.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
- authority.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
- enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
- two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
- causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
- running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
- - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
- service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
- after opening a circuit
- 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
- requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
- crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
- - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
- directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
- authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
- the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
- descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
- - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
- were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
- whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Major features:
- - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
- intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
- stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
- so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
- - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
- AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
- user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
- rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
- - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
- of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
- to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
- - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
- are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
- extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
- where Tor is blocked.
- - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
- bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
- controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
- to a file periodically.
- - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
- on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
- You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
- config option.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
- consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
- IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
- also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
- in the relevant networkstatus document.
- - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
- PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
- bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
- - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
- that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
- to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
- crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
- by Karsten Loesing.
- - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
- - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
- huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
- clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
- - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
- via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
- running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
- it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
- "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
- using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
- down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
- to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
- networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
- routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
- - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
- in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
- nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Fix compilation with
- - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
- bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
- create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
- used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
- - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
- documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Minor features:
- - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
- consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
- - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
- less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
- - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
- be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
- you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
- even if your DirPort isn't on.
- - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
- ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
- something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
- addresses.
- - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
- multiple controller passwords.
- - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
- router based on the router's purpose.
- - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
- authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
- networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
- the approved-routers file.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
- This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
- well as a few minor bugs.
- o Compile fixes:
- - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
- - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
- package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
- - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
- rebuild our server descriptor.
- o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
- - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
- operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
- - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
- newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
- - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
- IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
- to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
- given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
- never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
- in the consensus.
- - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
- the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
- a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
- fall back to asking the bridge authority.
- - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
- chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
- then be flexible about families.
- o Minor features:
- - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
- accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
- negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
- proposal 110.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
- This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
- the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
- policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
- fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
- o Security fixes:
- - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
- relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
- ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
- many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
- on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
- on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
- because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
- where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
- old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
- consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
- Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
- we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
- o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
- - We were including instructions about what to do with the
- src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
- including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
- o Minor features:
- - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
- PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
- just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
- to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
- This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
- run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
- descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
- in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
- fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
- addresses many more minor issues.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
- o Major features:
- - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
- "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
- connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
- connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
- fetching.
- - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
- implement new hidden service descriptor format.
- - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
- accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
- and are reaching it.
- - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
- to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
- how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
- nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
- - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
- it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
- maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
- by Fabian Keil.
- - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
- 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
- no longer work for clients.
- - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
- buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
- o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
- - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
- mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
- descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
- would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
- enough directory information to build a circuit.
- - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
- that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
- considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
- - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
- consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
- the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
- right after.
- - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
- Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
- requests for all of them.
- - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
- bug 546.
- - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
- for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
- started authority would vote that everyone was down.
- o New requirements:
- - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
- it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
- 2004.
- o Minor features:
- - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
- MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
- rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
- they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
- - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
- networkstatuses that we already have.
- - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
- to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
- we start knowing some directory caches.
- - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
- - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
- about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
- - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
- certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
- - New
- Good in combination with
- - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
- an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
- fix for bug 535.
- - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
- - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
- track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
- o Minor features (bridges):
- - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
- they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
- back to trying the bridge directly.
- - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
- the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
- as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
- report the value as a "minimum skew."
- o Utilities:
- - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
- the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
- Perry.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
- - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
- set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
- reported by tup and ioerror.
- - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
- - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
- o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
- - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
- on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes Bug 536.
- - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
- a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.9-alpha.
- - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
- Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
- using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Minor bugfixes (portability):
- - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
- long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
- OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
- particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
- Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
- hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
- bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
- lists for a few hours each day.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
- happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
- connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
- "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
- - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
- rend_process_relay_cell().
- o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
- - 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 Major bugfixes (other):
- - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
- HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
- dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
- - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
- as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
- circuit cannibalization).
- - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
- the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
- Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
- that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
- clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
- consensus. Fixes bug 529.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
- --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
- bug 499.
- - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
- router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
- absent. Resolves bug 467.
- - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
- a way to trigger this remotely.)
- - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
- OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
- were reporting the dir port.)
- - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
- command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
- - 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.
- - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
- this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
- - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
- cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
- is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
- - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
- option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
- - Don't try to create the datadir when running
-
- Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
- This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
- system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
- have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
- bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
- from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
- o Major features (directory system):
- - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
- of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
- opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
- download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
- - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
- a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
- "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
- nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
- disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
- - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
- to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
- Partially implements proposal 122.
- - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
- compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
- when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
- it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
- authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
- the flags for that router alone
- Running, etc
- that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
- clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
- consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
- extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
- matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
- - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
- the signing key.
- - Allow certificates to include an address.
- - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
- and download operations.
- - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
- we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
- - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
- certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
- consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
- and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
- failure.
- - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
- little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
- more reliable.)
- o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
- - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
- than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
- when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
- routers anyway.
- - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
- in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
- and don't expire the descriptor until then.
- o Minor features (performance):
- - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
- speed startup, especially on directory caches.
- - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
- already have enough directory information to build circuits.
- - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
- the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
- implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
- OpenSSL.
- o Minor features (compilation):
- - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
- build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
- o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
- - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
- after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
- stick around indefinitely.
- - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
- an error.
- - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
- v3 directory authority.
- - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
- as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
- the listing.
- - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
- its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
- "moria on moria:9031."
- - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
- detached signatures for a divergent vote.
- - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
- - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
- minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
- on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
- matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
- start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
- o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
- - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
- - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
- after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
- - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
- should exist before trying to replace the current one.
- - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
- downloads than for other types.
- o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
- - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.8-alpha.
- - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
- it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
- supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
- option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
- signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
- 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
- the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
- isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
- config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
- - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
- it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
- fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
- info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
- - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
- ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
- yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
- wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
- on 0.1.2.x.
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
- bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
- 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
- if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
- downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
- - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
- - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
- - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
- so that they all take the same named flags.
- o Utilities
- - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
- Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
- adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
- Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
- This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
- us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
- descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
- starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
- and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
- o Major features (router descriptor cache):
- - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
- cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
- if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
- annotations along with descriptors.
- - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
- source, and its purpose.
- - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
- obsolete.
- - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
- the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
- - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
- we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
- to blocked users.
- o Major features (directory authorities):
- - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
- to fetch them.
- - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
- weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
- whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
- whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
- "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
- stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
- o Major features (v3 directory system):
- - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
- and download the descriptors listed in them.
- - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
- certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
- - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
- happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
- connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
- 0.1.2.7-alpha.
- o Major bugfixes (performance):
- - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
- routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
- string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
- we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.1.
- - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
- write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
- newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
- make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
- and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
- eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
- o Minor features (v3 authority system):
- - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
- current consensus.
- - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
- certificate is requested.
- - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
- certificate requests.
- o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
- - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
- two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
- of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
- OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
- were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
- - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
- set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
- have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
- - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
- schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
- - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
- downloads more sensible.
- - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
- another when serving certificates.
- o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
- instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
- advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
- voodoo.
- - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
- file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
- 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
- command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
- this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
- - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
- Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (usability):
- - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
- WARN-severity events.
- - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
- cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
- fishy. Resolves bug 463.
- o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
- - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
- relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
- bug 516.
- - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
- as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
- circuit cannibalization).
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
- - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
- new module, networkstatus.c.
- - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
- routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
- authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
- computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
- modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
- stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
- clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
- thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
- - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
- uniform.
- - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
- dirserver_mode().
- - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
- The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
- This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
- authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
- in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
- o New directory authorities:
- - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
- doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
- rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- o Major bugfixes (bridges):
- - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
- attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
- to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
- and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
- - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
- users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
- fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
- default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
- are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
- connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
- - 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. Both
- are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
- connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
- o Minor features (security):
- - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
- 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 (speed):
- - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
- counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
- network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
- on big-endian hosts.)
- 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.
- - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
- "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
- 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. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
- - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
- in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
- Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
-
- bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - 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. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
- that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
- arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
- code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
- Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
- 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
- Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
- X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
- ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
- security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
- should upgrade.
- In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
- path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
- have upgraded.
- 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
- This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
- Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
- the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
- security risks.
- In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
- with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
- people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
- mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
- rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
- 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
- This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
- fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
- extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
- voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
- authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
- 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
- Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
- remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
- configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
- in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
- TorK, etc. Or worse.
- 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
- This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
- for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
- should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
- 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
- slightly 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
- This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
- blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
- directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
- and bugfixes.
- 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
- Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
- problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
- bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
- 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
- This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
- Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
- config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
- forward on a lot of fronts.
- 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
- Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
- change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
- and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
- 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
- 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
- This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
- selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
- address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
- well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
- other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
- Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
- of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
- free speech on the Internet.
- 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
- 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
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