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  1. Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-??-??
  2. o Major features:
  3. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  4. records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  5. IPv4 address). This has been specified for a long time, but was
  6. previously never implemented. This is only supported by eventdns;
  7. servers now announce in their descriptors whether they support
  8. eventdns.
  9. o Minor features:
  10. - Check for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing DNS
  11. requests and replace the 'no such server' answer with a "helpful"
  12. redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. [Resolves bug 330.]
  13. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers. This
  14. allows servers with broken DNS be useful to the network.
  15. o Security Fixes, minor
  16. - If a client asked for a server by name, and we didn't have a
  17. descriptor for a named server with that name, we might return an old
  18. one.
  19. o Minor Bugfixes
  20. - Small performance improvements on parsing descriptors (x2).
  21. - Major performance descriptor on inserting descriptors; change
  22. algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  23. - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  24. malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  25. - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
  26. instead of "X resolved to X".
  27. o Documentation
  28. - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
  29. ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
  30. Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
  31. o Major features:
  32. - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
  33. build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
  34. --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
  35. - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
  36. IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
  37. kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
  38. error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
  39. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  40. application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
  41. 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  42. that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  43. - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
  44. this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
  45. into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
  46. implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
  47. without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
  48. - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
  49. descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
  50. as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
  51. files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
  52. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  53. /16 network when constructing a circuit.
  54. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  55. a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  56. o Minor features:
  57. - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  58. split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  59. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  60. also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  61. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  62. or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  63. it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  64. win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  65. recommendation system saner.)
  66. - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
  67. to Phobos).
  68. - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  69. don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  70. - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
  71. - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
  72. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  73. such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  74. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  75. haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
  76. causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  77. you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
  78. - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  79. descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  80. your ORPort is set.
  81. - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
  82. no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  83. authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  84. long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  85. connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  86. more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  87. 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  88. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  89. to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  90. - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
  91. bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
  92. separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
  93. it is.
  94. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  95. to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  96. we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  97. other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  98. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  99. and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  100. o Major bugfixes:
  101. - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  102. so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  103. - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  104. if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  105. our DirPort now, etc.
  106. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  107. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  108. move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  109. Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  110. the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  111. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  112. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  113. voodoo.
  114. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  115. whether the config options are bad or good.
  116. - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
  117. address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
  118. pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
  119. in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
  120. eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
  121. - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  122. its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  123. back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  124. o Minor bugfixes:
  125. - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
  126. - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  127. - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  128. when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  129. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  130. useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  131. - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
  132. before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
  133. - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
  134. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  135. - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
  136. server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
  137. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  138. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  139. as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  140. of it), is not therefore "up".
  141. - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  142. actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  143. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  144. throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  145. handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  146. goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  147. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  148. o Major bugfixes:
  149. - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  150. due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  151. bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  152. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  153. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  154. then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  155. circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  156. changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  157. test reachability, so you won't publish.
  158. o Minor bugfixes:
  159. - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  160. and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  161. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  162. a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  163. a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  164. later than now.
  165. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  166. own server descriptor yet.
  167. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  168. o Major bugfixes:
  169. - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  170. reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  171. servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  172. make sure to test via one of these.
  173. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  174. descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  175. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  176. descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  177. servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  178. o Minor bugfixes:
  179. - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  180. "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  181. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  182. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  183. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  184. - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  185. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  186. directory authority.
  187. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  188. while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  189. exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  190. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  191. o Other fixes:
  192. - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  193. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  194. first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  195. right after that.
  196. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  197. and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  198. again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  199. current guards when picking a new guard.
  200. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  201. is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  202. when we had more than one pending.
  203. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  204. Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  205. a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  206. - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  207. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  208. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  209. mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  210. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  211. middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  212. debug the reachability problems better.
  213. o Log / documentation fixes:
  214. - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  215. log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  216. about protocol violations by others.
  217. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  218. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  219. about what happened to our old torrc.
  220. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  221. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
  222. - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
  223. logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  224. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  225. and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
  226. Palfrader).
  227. - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  228. a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  229. "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
  230. - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  231. out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  232. - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  233. your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
  234. HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  235. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
  236. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  237. to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  238. on malicious huge inputs.
  239. o Security fixes, major:
  240. - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  241. non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
  242. sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
  243. misreading their logs.
  244. - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
  245. nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  246. when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  247. become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  248. dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  249. config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  250. want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  251. Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
  252. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  253. destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  254. which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  255. that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  256. authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  257. use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  258. if you can.
  259. - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
  260. . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  261. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  262. firewall options forbid.
  263. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  264. firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  265. can only proxy to certain destinations.
  266. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  267. - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  268. out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  269. through privoxy.
  270. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  271. keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  272. each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  273. periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  274. - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  275. node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  276. already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
  277. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  278. are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
  279. to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
  280. preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
  281. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  282. was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
  283. o Security fixes, minor:
  284. - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
  285. Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  286. easily.
  287. - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
  288. mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
  289. is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  290. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  291. if we've not heard of a server.
  292. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  293. OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  294. startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  295. - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
  296. the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  297. humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  298. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  299. don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
  300. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  301. circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  302. introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  303. useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  304. aids some statistical attacks.
  305. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  306. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  307. have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  308. exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  309. - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  310. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  311. service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  312. back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  313. that anyway.
  314. o Packaging improvements:
  315. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
  316. search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  317. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
  318. there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  319. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  320. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
  321. "-Wall -g -O2".
  322. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  323. run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  324. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  325. the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  326. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  327. Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  328. target arch.
  329. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  330. if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  331. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  332. connections.
  333. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  334. tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  335. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
  336. They are useless now.
  337. - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
  338. easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
  339. is reachable by you.
  340. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  341. Thoenen.
  342. o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
  343. - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
  344. - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
  345. digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
  346. - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
  347. download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
  348. fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  349. - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
  350. - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
  351. download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
  352. download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
  353. and isolating attacks better.
  354. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  355. hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  356. - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
  357. haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  358. tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  359. minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  360. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  361. not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  362. go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  363. to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
  364. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  365. are known.
  366. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  367. can answer v2 directory requests too.
  368. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  369. docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
  370. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  371. mirrors still cache and serve it).
  372. - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
  373. before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  374. - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
  375. for clients and for servers.
  376. - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  377. - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  378. without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  379. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  380. support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  381. to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  382. - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
  383. reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
  384. - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
  385. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  386. authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  387. o Other directory improvements:
  388. - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
  389. fifth authoritative directory servers.
  390. - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
  391. a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  392. when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
  393. to hang up on them.
  394. - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
  395. of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
  396. be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  397. it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  398. - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
  399. entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
  400. every 20 minutes.
  401. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  402. the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  403. attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  404. to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  405. connections more reliable.
  406. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  407. like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  408. top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  409. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  410. from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  411. we fail to connect).
  412. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  413. o Controller protocol improvements:
  414. - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  415. than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
  416. in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
  417. applications without caring how our protocol works.
  418. - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  419. entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  420. - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  421. many bytes we've used in this time period.
  422. - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
  423. AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  424. a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  425. entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  426. - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
  427. expose guard nodes, config options/names.
  428. - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
  429. - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
  430. stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
  431. don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
  432. or "signal reload".
  433. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  434. we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  435. option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  436. - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
  437. controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
  438. a router in its role as directory authority.
  439. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  440. latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  441. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  442. it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  443. .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  444. that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  445. - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
  446. the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  447. changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  448. worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  449. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  450. for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
  451. controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
  452. a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
  453. let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
  454. - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
  455. directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
  456. dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
  457. is enabled.
  458. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  459. that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  460. "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
  461. - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  462. message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
  463. just tell them to go read their logs.
  464. o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
  465. - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
  466. chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  467. a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  468. try to be a bit more fair.
  469. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  470. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  471. and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
  472. and we're using a default DirPort.
  473. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  474. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  475. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  476. build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  477. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  478. services faster on the service end.
  479. - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
  480. remove them.
  481. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  482. warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  483. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  484. server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  485. line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  486. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  487. of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
  488. bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
  489. abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
  490. in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  491. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  492. truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  493. descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  494. purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  495. - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  496. 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  497. translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  498. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  499. of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  500. - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  501. Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  502. - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
  503. might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
  504. - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  505. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  506. o Other bugfixes and improvements:
  507. - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
  508. remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
  509. lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
  510. so we can be backward-compatible.
  511. - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
  512. resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
  513. if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
  514. themselves as localhost can guess their address.
  515. - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  516. it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  517. This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
  518. initial descriptor forever.
  519. - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  520. hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  521. the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  522. the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  523. rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  524. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  525. reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  526. has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  527. servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  528. high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  529. suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  530. - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  531. circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  532. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  533. connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  534. space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  535. feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  536. been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  537. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  538. socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
  539. leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
  540. - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
  541. - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  542. closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  543. ports that have changed.
  544. - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
  545. requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
  546. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  547. broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  548. connections once a week.
  549. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  550. would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  551. servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  552. - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  553. string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  554. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  555. get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  556. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  557. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  558. able to discover them.
  559. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
  560. want to make it an NT service.
  561. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  562. running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  563. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
  564. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  565. memory leaks better.
  566. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  567. use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  568. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
  569. statistics are now uint64_t's.
  570. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  571. log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  572. Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  573. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  574. our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  575. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  576. so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  577. default ulimit -n is 1024.
  578. - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  579. and its existence is confusing some users.
  580. o Config option fixes:
  581. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
  582. to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  583. addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  584. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
  585. - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
  586. that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
  587. for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
  588. - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  589. since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  590. or port.
  591. - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  592. we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  593. This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  594. November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
  595. - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  596. torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  597. it would silently ignore the 6668.
  598. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
  599. e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  600. silently resetting it to its default.
  601. - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  602. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
  603. will be more likely to learn that it exists.
  604. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  605. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  606. config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  607. that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  608. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  609. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  610. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  611. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  612. - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
  613. Address config option.
  614. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  615. reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  616. o Config option features:
  617. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  618. do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  619. already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  620. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  621. dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  622. makes sense.
  623. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  624. and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  625. info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  626. PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  627. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  628. option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  629. Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  630. - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
  631. accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
  632. smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
  633. in at least some cases.)
  634. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
  635. as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  636. revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  637. - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
  638. with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
  639. by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
  640. nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
  641. currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
  642. even if we know they're jerks.
  643. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
  644. applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  645. socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  646. with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  647. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  648. you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  649. every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  650. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  651. because older Tors do not understand it.
  652. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  653. moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
  654. - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  655. get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  656. around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  657. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  658. for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  659. to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  660. - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  661. unattached before we fail it?
  662. - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  663. at least this many seconds ago.
  664. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  665. at least this many seconds ago.
  666. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  667. using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  668. o Improved and clearer log messages:
  669. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  670. them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  671. lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  672. by default.
  673. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  674. of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  675. log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  676. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  677. have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  678. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
  679. move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  680. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  681. temporarily unreachable.
  682. - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  683. Windows-style errno back.
  684. - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  685. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  686. culling them.
  687. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  688. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  689. even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
  690. exactly for this case.
  691. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  692. warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
  693. don't warn twice about the same name.
  694. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  695. unreachability.
  696. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  697. it was self-testing that told us so.
  698. - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  699. as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  700. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  701. the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  702. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  703. will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  704. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  705. log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  706. - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  707. circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
  708. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  709. established a circuit.
  710. - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  711. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
  712. lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  713. and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  714. since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  715. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  716. rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  717. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  718. "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  719. - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  720. line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  721. - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
  722. descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
  723. a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  724. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  725. a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  726. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  727. server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  728. we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  729. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  730. as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  731. testing for reachability.
  732. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  733. more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  734. to the torrc.
  735. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
  736. Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  737. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  738. - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  739. sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  740. o Other important bugfixes:
  741. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  742. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  743. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  744. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  745. o Backported features:
  746. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  747. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  748. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  749. without getting overloaded.
  750. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  751. once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  752. 503's whenever they feel busy.
  753. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  754. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  755. directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  756. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  757. from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  758. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  759. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  760. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  761. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  762. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  763. - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  764. too -- so detect and avoid this.
  765. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  766. giving an error).
  767. - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  768. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  769. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  770. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  771. don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  772. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  773. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  774. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  775. rendezvous circuits.
  776. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  777. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  778. - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  779. messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  780. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  781. advertising it because of hibernation.
  782. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  783. - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
  784. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  785. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  786. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  787. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  788. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  789. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  790. the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  791. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  792. - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  793. exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  794. policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  795. as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  796. reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  797. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  798. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  799. - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  800. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  801. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  802. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  803. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  804. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  805. be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  806. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  807. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  808. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  809. - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  810. most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  811. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  812. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  813. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  814. - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  815. (CVE-2005-2643).
  816. - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  817. controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  818. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  819. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  820. - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  821. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  822. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  823. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  824. pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  825. in the start menu.
  826. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  827. new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  828. not-broken.
  829. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  830. o New directory servers:
  831. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  832. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  833. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  834. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  835. pthreads libraries.
  836. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  837. claims its dirport is 0.
  838. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  839. getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  840. Edman for the fix.
  841. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  842. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  843. - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  844. exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  845. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  846. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  847. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  848. - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  849. Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  850. o Fixes on Win32:
  851. - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
  852. patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
  853. - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
  854. servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
  855. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  856. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
  857. means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
  858. has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  859. - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
  860. file.
  861. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  862. Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  863. o Assert / crash bugs:
  864. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  865. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  866. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  867. (CVE-2005-2050).
  868. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  869. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  870. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  871. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
  872. pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
  873. o Resource leaks:
  874. - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
  875. forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
  876. duplicate ram over time.
  877. - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
  878. reentry and threadsafeness.
  879. - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  880. netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
  881. resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
  882. threading issues.
  883. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  884. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  885. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  886. point at your Tor server.
  887. - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
  888. Adam Langley.)
  889. - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
  890. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  891. we're leaking.
  892. o Protocol correctness:
  893. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  894. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  895. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  896. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
  897. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  898. to abandon partially built circuits.
  899. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  900. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  901. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  902. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  903. descriptors we just dropped.
  904. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  905. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
  906. and to take errno into account where possible.
  907. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  908. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  909. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  910. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  911. o Robustness improvements:
  912. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  913. - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
  914. nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  915. appropriate nodes.
  916. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  917. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  918. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  919. that will want high uptime circuits.
  920. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  921. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  922. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  923. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  924. - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
  925. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  926. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  927. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  928. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  929. - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
  930. we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
  931. make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
  932. make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
  933. circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  934. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  935. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  936. for google.com" problem.
  937. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  938. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  939. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  940. these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  941. provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  942. clients yet.
  943. o Reachability testing.
  944. - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
  945. DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
  946. descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
  947. DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
  948. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  949. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  950. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  951. - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
  952. they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
  953. already connected to them.
  954. - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
  955. or later.
  956. o Dirserver fixes:
  957. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  958. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  959. nickname+key are allowed.
  960. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  961. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  962. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  963. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  964. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  965. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  966. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  967. have quite wrong clocks).
  968. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  969. addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  970. IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  971. their descriptors are being rejected.
  972. o Efficiency improvements:
  973. - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
  974. and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
  975. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
  976. kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
  977. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  978. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  979. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  980. after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  981. if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  982. assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  983. error message.
  984. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  985. reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  986. it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  987. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  988. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  989. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  990. OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  991. OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  992. of CPU time plus memory.
  993. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  994. directory every time you regenerate it.
  995. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  996. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  997. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  998. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  999. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  1000. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  1001. lowercase when you first see them.
  1002. o Hidden services:
  1003. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  1004. hidden services better.
  1005. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  1006. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  1007. when we try to launch one.
  1008. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
  1009. after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
  1010. attempts to build a circuit.
  1011. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  1012. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  1013. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  1014. normal web requests.
  1015. o Controller:
  1016. - More Tor controller support. See
  1017. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  1018. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  1019. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  1020. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  1021. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  1022. to make it easier to write controllers.
  1023. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  1024. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  1025. Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
  1026. log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
  1027. new log event types.
  1028. o New config options/defaults:
  1029. - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  1030. the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  1031. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  1032. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  1033. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  1034. exit policy.
  1035. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  1036. config option.
  1037. - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
  1038. based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
  1039. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  1040. the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
  1041. willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
  1042. capacity too.)
  1043. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  1044. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  1045. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  1046. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  1047. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  1048. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  1049. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  1050. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  1051. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  1052. required exit node for certain sites.
  1053. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  1054. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  1055. your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  1056. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  1057. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  1058. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  1059. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  1060. - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
  1061. a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
  1062. servers).
  1063. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
  1064. on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
  1065. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  1066. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  1067. private-IP addresses.
  1068. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  1069. smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
  1070. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
  1071. a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  1072. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  1073. LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  1074. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  1075. is valid without actually launching Tor.
  1076. o Logging improvements:
  1077. - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
  1078. contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  1079. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
  1080. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  1081. yell so much.
  1082. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  1083. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  1084. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  1085. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  1086. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  1087. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  1088. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  1089. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  1090. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  1091. wrong.
  1092. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  1093. it was.
  1094. - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  1095. already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  1096. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  1097. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  1098. - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  1099. pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
  1100. o New contrib scripts:
  1101. - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
  1102. script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  1103. addresses/ports.
  1104. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  1105. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  1106. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  1107. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  1108. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  1109. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  1110. via addresses like
  1111. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  1112. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  1113. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  1114. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  1115. on FreeBSD)
  1116. o Misc bugfixes:
  1117. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  1118. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  1119. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  1120. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  1121. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  1122. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  1123. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  1124. the socks reject.
  1125. - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
  1126. something more reasonable when first installing.
  1127. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  1128. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  1129. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  1130. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  1131. get the nodes.
  1132. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  1133. artificially capped at 500kB.
  1134. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  1135. addresses.
  1136. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  1137. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  1138. they could use instead.
  1139. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  1140. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
  1141. installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  1142. the user asks you to.
  1143. o Misc features:
  1144. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
  1145. rather than just rejecting it.
  1146. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  1147. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  1148. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  1149. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  1150. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  1151. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  1152. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  1153. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  1154. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  1155. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  1156. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  1157. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  1158. the same series.
  1159. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  1160. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  1161. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  1162. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  1163. they're malformed.
  1164. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  1165. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  1166. for now.
  1167. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  1168. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  1169. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  1170. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  1171. come later.
  1172. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  1173. whether the server is hibernating.
  1174. Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  1175. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  1176. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  1177. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  1178. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  1179. (CVE-2005-2050).
  1180. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  1181. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1182. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  1183. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  1184. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  1185. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  1186. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1187. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  1188. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  1189. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  1190. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  1191. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  1192. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  1193. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1194. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  1195. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  1196. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  1197. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  1198. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  1199. creating actual system users.
  1200. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  1201. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  1202. in 0.1.0.x).
  1203. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  1204. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  1205. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  1206. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  1207. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  1208. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  1209. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  1210. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  1211. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  1212. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  1213. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  1214. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  1215. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  1216. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  1217. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  1218. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  1219. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  1220. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  1221. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  1222. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  1223. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  1224. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  1225. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  1226. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  1227. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  1228. existing torrc files.
  1229. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  1230. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  1231. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1232. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  1233. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  1234. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  1235. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  1236. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  1237. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  1238. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  1239. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  1240. file descriptors available.
  1241. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  1242. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  1243. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  1244. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  1245. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1246. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  1247. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  1248. freak out.
  1249. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  1250. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  1251. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  1252. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  1253. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  1254. logs, etc.
  1255. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  1256. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  1257. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  1258. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  1259. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  1260. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  1261. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  1262. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  1263. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  1264. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  1265. 800kB/s of capacity.
  1266. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  1267. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  1268. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1269. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  1270. need as much processor time.
  1271. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  1272. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  1273. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  1274. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  1275. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  1276. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  1277. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  1278. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  1279. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  1280. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  1281. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  1282. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  1283. resetting.
  1284. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  1285. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  1286. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  1287. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  1288. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  1289. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  1290. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  1291. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  1292. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  1293. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  1294. to a file.
  1295. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  1296. style address, then we'd crash.
  1297. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  1298. a dirserver is broken.
  1299. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  1300. may work better.
  1301. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  1302. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  1303. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  1304. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  1305. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  1306. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  1307. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  1308. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  1309. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  1310. take any away.
  1311. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  1312. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  1313. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  1314. DataDirectory.
  1315. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  1316. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  1317. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  1318. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  1319. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  1320. values at once couldn't work.
  1321. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  1322. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  1323. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  1324. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  1325. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  1326. they can handle any number of routers.
  1327. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  1328. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  1329. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  1330. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  1331. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  1332. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  1333. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  1334. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  1335. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  1336. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  1337. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1338. - Make hibernation actually work.
  1339. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  1340. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  1341. don't use the stream status code.
  1342. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  1343. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  1344. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  1345. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  1346. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  1347. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  1348. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  1349. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  1350. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  1351. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  1352. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  1353. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  1354. bit platforms.
  1355. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  1356. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  1357. win32 socket errors better.
  1358. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  1359. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  1360. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  1361. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  1362. happier.
  1363. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  1364. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  1365. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  1366. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  1367. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  1368. right after sending the begin cell.
  1369. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  1370. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  1371. exit nodes too. Oops.
  1372. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  1373. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  1374. the user would get no response.
  1375. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  1376. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  1377. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  1378. forever.
  1379. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  1380. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  1381. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  1382. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  1383. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  1384. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  1385. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  1386. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  1387. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  1388. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  1389. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  1390. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  1391. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  1392. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  1393. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  1394. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  1395. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  1396. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  1397. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  1398. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  1399. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  1400. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  1401. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  1402. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  1403. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  1404. so we don't see those messages days later.
  1405. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  1406. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  1407. bug).
  1408. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  1409. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  1410. they ran out of file descriptors.
  1411. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  1412. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  1413. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  1414. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  1415. recent enough.
  1416. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  1417. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  1418. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  1419. the ones we find in directories.)
  1420. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  1421. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  1422. if you don't want it open.
  1423. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  1424. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  1425. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  1426. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  1427. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  1428. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  1429. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  1430. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  1431. overflow behavior.
  1432. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  1433. hey.)
  1434. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  1435. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  1436. o Features (circuits and streams):
  1437. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  1438. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  1439. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  1440. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  1441. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  1442. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  1443. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  1444. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  1445. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  1446. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  1447. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  1448. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  1449. from Geoff Goodell.
  1450. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  1451. pick it anyway.
  1452. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  1453. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  1454. to fill the last cell completely.
  1455. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  1456. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  1457. o Features (bandwidth):
  1458. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  1459. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  1460. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  1461. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  1462. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  1463. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  1464. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  1465. your billing cycle starts on.
  1466. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  1467. hibernation properties by
  1468. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  1469. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  1470. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  1471. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  1472. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  1473. o Features (directories):
  1474. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  1475. nickname to its identity key.
  1476. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  1477. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  1478. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  1479. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  1480. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  1481. appropriate.
  1482. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  1483. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  1484. running-routers.z
  1485. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  1486. will be able to get a directory.
  1487. - Http proxy support
  1488. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  1489. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  1490. be routed through this host.
  1491. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  1492. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  1493. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  1494. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  1495. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  1496. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  1497. o Features (packages and install):
  1498. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  1499. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  1500. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  1501. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  1502. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  1503. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  1504. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  1505. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  1506. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  1507. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  1508. is broken.
  1509. o Features (ui controller):
  1510. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  1511. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  1512. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  1513. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  1514. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  1515. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  1516. with the control port.
  1517. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  1518. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  1519. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  1520. configuration to torrc.
  1521. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  1522. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  1523. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  1524. o Features (config and command-line):
  1525. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  1526. not on the command line.
  1527. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  1528. options.
  1529. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  1530. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  1531. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  1532. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  1533. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  1534. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  1535. - New log format in config:
  1536. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  1537. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  1538. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  1539. from their dirserver.
  1540. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  1541. and then exit.
  1542. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  1543. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  1544. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  1545. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  1546. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  1547. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  1548. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  1549. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  1550. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  1551. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  1552. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  1553. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  1554. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  1555. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  1556. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  1557. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  1558. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  1559. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  1560. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  1561. than once per minute.
  1562. o Features (other):
  1563. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  1564. get back to normal.)
  1565. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  1566. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  1567. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  1568. log more informatively.
  1569. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  1570. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  1571. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  1572. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  1573. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  1574. them act more like real nodes.
  1575. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  1576. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  1577. 1024) file descriptors.
  1578. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  1579. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  1580. o Bugfixes:
  1581. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  1582. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  1583. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  1584. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  1585. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  1586. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  1587. intermittent connections.
  1588. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  1589. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  1590. reattaches.
  1591. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  1592. in reporting stats locally.
  1593. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  1594. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  1595. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  1596. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  1597. o Bugfixes:
  1598. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  1599. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  1600. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  1601. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  1602. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  1603. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  1604. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  1605. list to decide who's running.
  1606. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  1607. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  1608. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  1609. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  1610. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  1611. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  1612. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  1613. for pointing out this bug.)
  1614. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  1615. directory.
  1616. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  1617. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  1618. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  1619. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  1620. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  1621. o Protocol changes:
  1622. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  1623. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  1624. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  1625. hadn't heard of before.
  1626. o Features:
  1627. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  1628. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  1629. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  1630. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  1631. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  1632. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  1633. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  1634. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  1635. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  1636. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  1637. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  1638. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  1639. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  1640. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  1641. - Directory caching.
  1642. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  1643. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  1644. directory they've pulled down.
  1645. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  1646. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  1647. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  1648. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  1649. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  1650. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  1651. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  1652. by hash-of-key).
  1653. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  1654. This isn't used yet.
  1655. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  1656. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  1657. clients don't use this yet.)
  1658. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  1659. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  1660. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  1661. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  1662. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  1663. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  1664. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  1665. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  1666. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  1667. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  1668. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  1669. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  1670. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  1671. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  1672. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  1673. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  1674. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  1675. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  1676. - File and name management:
  1677. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  1678. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  1679. as datadir.
  1680. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  1681. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  1682. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  1683. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  1684. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  1685. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  1686. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  1687. to use.
  1688. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  1689. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  1690. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  1691. locally.
  1692. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  1693. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  1694. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  1695. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  1696. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  1697. - New docs in the tarball:
  1698. - tor-doc.html.
  1699. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  1700. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  1701. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  1702. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  1703. know you might want to get it verified.
  1704. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  1705. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  1706. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  1707. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  1708. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  1709. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  1710. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  1711. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  1712. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  1713. "GET /".
  1714. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  1715. an exitnode.
  1716. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  1717. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  1718. or exit nodes.
  1719. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  1720. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  1721. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  1722. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  1723. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  1724. ask them to resolve the host "".
  1725. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  1726. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  1727. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  1728. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  1729. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  1730. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  1731. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  1732. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  1733. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  1734. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  1735. them.
  1736. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  1737. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  1738. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  1739. exit nodes.
  1740. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  1741. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  1742. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  1743. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  1744. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  1745. o Fixes for security bugs:
  1746. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  1747. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  1748. a trusted dirserver.
  1749. o Other bugfixes:
  1750. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  1751. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  1752. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  1753. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  1754. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  1755. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  1756. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  1757. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  1758. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  1759. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  1760. have failed.
  1761. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  1762. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  1763. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  1764. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  1765. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  1766. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  1767. easily.
  1768. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  1769. settings too.
  1770. o Features:
  1771. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  1772. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  1773. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  1774. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  1775. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  1776. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  1777. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  1778. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  1779. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  1780. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  1781. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  1782. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  1783. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  1784. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  1785. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  1786. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  1787. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  1788. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  1789. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  1790. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  1791. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  1792. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  1793. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  1794. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  1795. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  1796. server.
  1797. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  1798. o Features:
  1799. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  1800. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  1801. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  1802. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  1803. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  1804. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  1805. if you decrypted them correctly.
  1806. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  1807. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  1808. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  1809. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  1810. in-memory directories too.
  1811. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  1812. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  1813. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  1814. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  1815. just close the circ.
  1816. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  1817. - Better debugging for tls errors
  1818. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  1819. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  1820. o Bugfixes:
  1821. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  1822. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  1823. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  1824. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  1825. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  1826. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  1827. it tells you about the first error.
  1828. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  1829. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  1830. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  1831. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  1832. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  1833. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  1834. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  1835. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  1836. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  1837. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  1838. o Portability:
  1839. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  1840. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  1841. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  1842. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  1843. torrc. (Woo!)
  1844. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  1845. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  1846. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  1847. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  1848. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  1849. expect it to have a nickname.
  1850. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  1851. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  1852. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  1853. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  1854. the dns farm to do it.
  1855. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  1856. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  1857. directory.
  1858. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  1859. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  1860. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  1861. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  1862. but that aren't warnings
  1863. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  1864. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  1865. we would crash.
  1866. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  1867. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  1868. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  1869. - include missing header fcntl.h
  1870. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  1871. - deal with hardware word alignment
  1872. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  1873. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  1874. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  1875. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  1876. by kill -USR1 currently.
  1877. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  1878. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  1879. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  1880. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  1881. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  1882. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  1883. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  1884. o Bugfixes:
  1885. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  1886. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  1887. - And fix a few endian issues.
  1888. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  1889. o New features:
  1890. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  1891. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  1892. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  1893. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  1894. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  1895. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  1896. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  1897. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  1898. about as a server.
  1899. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  1900. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  1901. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  1902. o Bugfixes:
  1903. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  1904. simply not true.
  1905. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  1906. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  1907. side isn't reading right then.
  1908. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  1909. RecommendedVersions
  1910. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  1911. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  1912. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  1913. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  1914. o New features:
  1915. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  1916. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  1917. e.g. poblano.
  1918. o Bugfixes:
  1919. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  1920. crashed.
  1921. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  1922. o Bugfixes:
  1923. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  1924. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  1925. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  1926. connection is finished.
  1927. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  1928. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  1929. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  1930. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  1931. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  1932. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  1933. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  1934. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  1935. rather than warn and continue.
  1936. - Make --version work
  1937. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  1938. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  1939. o New features:
  1940. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  1941. knows it's working.
  1942. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  1943. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  1944. clearly thwarted.)
  1945. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  1946. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  1947. so you can collect coredumps there.
  1948. o Bugfixes:
  1949. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  1950. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  1951. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  1952. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  1953. dns cache actually gets populated.
  1954. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  1955. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  1956. end cell down it first.
  1957. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  1958. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  1959. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  1960. o New features:
  1961. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  1962. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  1963. errors happen.
  1964. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  1965. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  1966. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  1967. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  1968. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  1969. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  1970. it.
  1971. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  1972. o Bugfixes:
  1973. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  1974. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  1975. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  1976. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  1977. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  1978. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  1979. dirservers.
  1980. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  1981. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  1982. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  1983. o New features:
  1984. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  1985. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  1986. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  1987. tor. It even has a man page.
  1988. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  1989. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  1990. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  1991. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  1992. his/her torrc.
  1993. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  1994. o Bugfixes:
  1995. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  1996. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  1997. o New features:
  1998. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  1999. it, apt-getters. :)
  2000. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  2001. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  2002. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  2003. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  2004. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  2005. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  2006. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  2007. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  2008. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  2009. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  2010. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  2011. to new ones.
  2012. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  2013. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  2014. o Bugfixes:
  2015. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  2016. after a while.
  2017. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  2018. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  2019. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  2020. o Bugfixes:
  2021. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  2022. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  2023. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  2024. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  2025. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  2026. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  2027. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  2028. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  2029. logfile so you know it's working.
  2030. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  2031. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  2032. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  2033. o Bugfixes:
  2034. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  2035. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  2036. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  2037. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  2038. o Bugfixes:
  2039. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  2040. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  2041. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  2042. o Features:
  2043. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  2044. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  2045. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  2046. with MorphMix).
  2047. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  2048. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  2049. relay cells.
  2050. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  2051. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  2052. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  2053. this hop.
  2054. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  2055. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  2056. been made so far.
  2057. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  2058. o Bugfixes:
  2059. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  2060. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  2061. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  2062. o Features:
  2063. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  2064. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  2065. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  2066. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  2067. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  2068. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  2069. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  2070. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  2071. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  2072. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  2073. exit nodes.
  2074. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  2075. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  2076. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2077. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  2078. really screw things up.
  2079. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  2080. working.
  2081. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  2082. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  2083. established.
  2084. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  2085. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  2086. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  2087. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  2088. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  2089. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  2090. o Documentation:
  2091. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  2092. o Configuration:
  2093. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  2094. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  2095. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  2096. ORPort>0.
  2097. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  2098. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  2099. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2100. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  2101. - to get ownership/permissions right
  2102. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  2103. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  2104. pull down a directory again
  2105. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  2106. causing server crashes
  2107. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  2108. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  2109. - exit if bind() fails
  2110. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  2111. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  2112. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  2113. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  2114. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  2115. o Documentation:
  2116. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  2117. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  2118. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  2119. are down.
  2120. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  2121. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  2122. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  2123. exists, rather than failing
  2124. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  2125. which AP connections are standing by
  2126. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  2127. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  2128. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  2129. circuit.
  2130. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  2131. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  2132. o Configuration:
  2133. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  2134. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  2135. where to bind
  2136. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  2137. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  2138. - Reloads config on HUP
  2139. - Usage info on -h or --help
  2140. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  2141. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  2142. o General stability:
  2143. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  2144. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  2145. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  2146. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  2147. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  2148. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  2149. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  2150. o Buffers:
  2151. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  2152. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  2153. o Autoconf improvements:
  2154. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  2155. - Make install now works
  2156. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  2157. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  2158. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  2159. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  2160. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  2161. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  2162. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup