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  1. Changes so far in 0.0.9:
  2. pre1:
  3. o Bugfixes:
  4. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  5. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  6. if you don't want it open.
  7. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  8. - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
  9. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  10. intermittent connections.
  11. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  12. happier.
  13. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  14. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  15. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  16. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  17. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  18. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  19. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  20. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  21. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  22. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  23. - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
  24. before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
  25. assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
  26. the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
  27. o Features:
  28. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  29. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  30. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  31. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  32. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  33. options.
  34. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  35. appropriate.
  36. - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
  37. We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
  38. specified in HTTP 1.0.
  39. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  40. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  41. than once per minute
  42. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  43. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  44. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  45. o Bugfixes:
  46. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  47. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  48. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  49. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  50. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  51. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  52. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  53. list to decide who's running.
  54. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  55. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  56. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  57. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  58. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  59. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  60. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  61. for pointing out this bug.)
  62. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  63. directory.
  64. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  65. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  66. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  67. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  68. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  69. o Protocol changes:
  70. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  71. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  72. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  73. hadn't heard of before.
  74. o Features:
  75. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  76. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  77. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  78. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  79. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  80. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  81. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  82. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  83. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  84. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  85. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  86. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  87. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  88. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  89. - Directory caching.
  90. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  91. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  92. directory they've pulled down.
  93. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  94. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  95. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  96. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  97. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  98. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  99. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  100. by hash-of-key).
  101. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  102. This isn't used yet.
  103. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  104. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  105. clients don't use this yet.)
  106. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  107. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  108. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  109. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  110. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  111. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  112. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  113. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  114. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  115. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  116. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  117. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  118. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  119. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  120. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  121. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  122. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  123. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  124. - File and name management:
  125. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  126. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  127. as datadir.
  128. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  129. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  130. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  131. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  132. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  133. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  134. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  135. to use.
  136. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  137. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  138. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  139. locally.
  140. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  141. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  142. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  143. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  144. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  145. - New docs in the tarball:
  146. - tor-doc.html.
  147. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  148. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  149. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  150. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  151. know you might want to get it verified.
  152. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  153. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  154. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  155. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  156. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  157. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  158. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  159. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  160. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  161. "GET /".
  162. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  163. an exitnode.
  164. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  165. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  166. or exit nodes.
  167. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  168. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  169. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  170. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  171. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  172. ask them to resolve the host "".
  173. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  174. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  175. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  176. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  177. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  178. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  179. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  180. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  181. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  182. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  183. them.
  184. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  185. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  186. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  187. exit nodes.
  188. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  189. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  190. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  191. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  192. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  193. o Fixes for security bugs:
  194. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  195. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  196. a trusted dirserver.
  197. o Other bugfixes:
  198. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  199. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  200. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  201. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  202. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  203. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  204. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  205. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  206. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  207. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  208. have failed.
  209. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  210. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  211. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  212. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  213. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  214. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  215. easily.
  216. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  217. settings too.
  218. o Features:
  219. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  220. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  221. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  222. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  223. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  224. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  225. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  226. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  227. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  228. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  229. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  230. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  231. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  232. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  233. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  234. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  235. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  236. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  237. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  238. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  239. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  240. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  241. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  242. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  243. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  244. server.
  245. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  246. o Features:
  247. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  248. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  249. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  250. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  251. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  252. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  253. if you decrypted them correctly.
  254. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  255. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  256. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  257. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  258. in-memory directories too.
  259. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  260. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  261. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  262. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  263. just close the circ.
  264. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  265. - Better debugging for tls errors
  266. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  267. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  268. o Bugfixes:
  269. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  270. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  271. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  272. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  273. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  274. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  275. it tells you about the first error.
  276. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  277. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  278. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  279. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  280. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  281. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  282. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  283. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  284. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  285. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  286. o Portability:
  287. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  288. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  289. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  290. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  291. torrc. (Woo!)
  292. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  293. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  294. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  295. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  296. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  297. expect it to have a nickname.
  298. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  299. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  300. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  301. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  302. the dns farm to do it.
  303. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  304. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  305. directory.
  306. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  307. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  308. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  309. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  310. but that aren't warnings
  311. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  312. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  313. we would crash.
  314. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  315. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  316. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  317. - include missing header fcntl.h
  318. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  319. - deal with hardware word alignment
  320. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  321. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  322. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  323. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  324. by kill -USR1 currently.
  325. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  326. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  327. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  328. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  329. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  330. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  331. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  332. o Bugfixes:
  333. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  334. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  335. - And fix a few endian issues.
  336. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  337. o New features:
  338. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  339. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  340. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  341. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  342. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  343. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  344. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  345. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  346. about as a server.
  347. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  348. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  349. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  350. o Bugfixes:
  351. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  352. simply not true.
  353. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  354. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  355. side isn't reading right then.
  356. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  357. RecommendedVersions
  358. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  359. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  360. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  361. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  362. o New features:
  363. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  364. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  365. e.g. poblano.
  366. o Bugfixes:
  367. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  368. crashed.
  369. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  370. o Bugfixes:
  371. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  372. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  373. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  374. connection is finished.
  375. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  376. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  377. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  378. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  379. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  380. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  381. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  382. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  383. rather than warn and continue.
  384. - Make --version work
  385. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  386. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  387. o New features:
  388. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  389. knows it's working.
  390. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  391. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  392. clearly thwarted.)
  393. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  394. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  395. so you can collect coredumps there.
  396. o Bugfixes:
  397. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  398. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  399. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  400. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  401. dns cache actually gets populated.
  402. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  403. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  404. end cell down it first.
  405. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  406. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  407. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  408. o New features:
  409. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  410. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  411. errors happen.
  412. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  413. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  414. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  415. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  416. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  417. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  418. it.
  419. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  420. o Bugfixes:
  421. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  422. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  423. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  424. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  425. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  426. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  427. dirservers.
  428. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  429. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  430. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  431. o New features:
  432. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  433. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  434. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  435. tor. It even has a man page.
  436. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  437. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  438. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  439. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  440. his/her torrc.
  441. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  442. o Bugfixes:
  443. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  444. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  445. o New features:
  446. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  447. it, apt-getters. :)
  448. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  449. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  450. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  451. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  452. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  453. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  454. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  455. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  456. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  457. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  458. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  459. to new ones.
  460. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  461. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  462. o Bugfixes:
  463. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  464. after a while.
  465. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  466. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  467. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  468. o Bugfixes:
  469. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  470. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  471. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  472. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  473. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  474. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  475. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  476. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  477. logfile so you know it's working.
  478. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  479. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  480. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  481. o Bugfixes:
  482. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  483. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  484. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  485. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  486. o Bugfixes:
  487. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  488. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  489. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  490. o Features:
  491. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  492. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  493. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  494. with MorphMix).
  495. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  496. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  497. relay cells.
  498. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  499. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  500. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  501. this hop.
  502. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  503. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  504. been made so far.
  505. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  506. o Bugfixes:
  507. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  508. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  509. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  510. o Features:
  511. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  512. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  513. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  514. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  515. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  516. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  517. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  518. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  519. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  520. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  521. exit nodes.
  522. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  523. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  524. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  525. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  526. really screw things up.
  527. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  528. working.
  529. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  530. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  531. established.
  532. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  533. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  534. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  535. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  536. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  537. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  538. o Documentation:
  539. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  540. o Configuration:
  541. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  542. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  543. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  544. ORPort>0.
  545. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  546. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  547. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  548. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  549. - to get ownership/permissions right
  550. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  551. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  552. pull down a directory again
  553. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  554. causing server crashes
  555. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  556. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  557. - exit if bind() fails
  558. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  559. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  560. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  561. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  562. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  563. o Documentation:
  564. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  565. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  566. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  567. are down.
  568. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  569. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  570. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  571. exists, rather than failing
  572. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  573. which AP connections are standing by
  574. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  575. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  576. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  577. circuit.
  578. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  579. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  580. o Configuration:
  581. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  582. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  583. where to bind
  584. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  585. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  586. - Reloads config on HUP
  587. - Usage info on -h or --help
  588. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  589. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  590. o General stability:
  591. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  592. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  593. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  594. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  595. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  596. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  597. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  598. o Buffers:
  599. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  600. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  601. o Autoconf improvements:
  602. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  603. - Make install now works
  604. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  605. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  606. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  607. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  608. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  609. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  610. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup