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