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  1. Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
  2. o Bugfixes:
  3. - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
  4. we didn't like its cert.
  5. o Features:
  6. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  7. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  8. - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (based auth only), based
  9. on patch from Adam Langley.
  10. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  11. the fast servers that have been joining lately.
  12. - Given hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
  13. since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
  14. robustness more.
  15. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  16. directory every time you regenerate it.
  17. - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
  18. pthreads bug.
  19. - Cleaner debug messages to help us track down future issues.
  20. Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
  21. o Bugfixes:
  22. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  23. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  24. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  25. - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
  26. logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
  27. telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
  28. track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
  29. and don't log when you are.
  30. - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
  31. non-complete success, only say "done" once.
  32. o Features:
  33. - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
  34. of advertised bandwidth capacity.
  35. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  36. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  37. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  38. Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
  39. o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
  40. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  41. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  42. - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
  43. - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
  44. now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
  45. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  46. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  47. nickname+key are allowed.
  48. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  49. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  50. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  51. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  52. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  53. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  54. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  55. have quite wrong clocks).
  56. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  57. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  58. - Efficiency improvements:
  59. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  60. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  61. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  62. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  63. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  64. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  65. lowercase and be done with it.
  66. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
  67. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  68. to abandon partially built circuits.
  69. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
  70. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  71. yell so much.
  72. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  73. exit policy.
  74. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  75. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  76. Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
  77. - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
  78. fails.
  79. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  80. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  81. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
  82. - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
  83. descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
  84. obeying the exit policy internally.
  85. - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
  86. connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
  87. connection_free().
  88. - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
  89. the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
  90. when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
  91. cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
  92. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  93. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  94. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  95. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  96. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  97. get the nodes.
  98. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  99. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  100. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  101. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  102. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  103. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  104. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  105. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  106. descriptors we just dropped.
  107. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  108. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  109. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  110. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  111. artificially capped at 500kB.
  112. Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
  113. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
  114. - Fixes on reachability detection:
  115. - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
  116. - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
  117. descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
  118. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  119. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  120. - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
  121. DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
  122. - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
  123. initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
  124. we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
  125. and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
  126. - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
  127. since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
  128. server not already connected to them.
  129. - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
  130. Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
  131. bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
  132. obsolete.)
  133. - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
  134. right then.
  135. - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
  136. - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
  137. are in a different state than they actually are.
  138. - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
  139. win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
  140. features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
  141. libevent log msgs.
  142. - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
  143. - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
  144. - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
  145. o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
  146. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  147. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  148. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  149. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  150. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  151. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  152. via addresses like
  153. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  154. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  155. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  156. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  157. Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
  158. o New features:
  159. - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
  160. to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
  161. and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
  162. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  163. hidden services better.
  164. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  165. config option.
  166. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  167. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  168. - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
  169. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  170. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  171. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  172. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  173. - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
  174. patch by Matt Edman).
  175. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  176. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  177. required exit node for certain sites.
  178. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  179. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  180. your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  181. - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
  182. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  183. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  184. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  185. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  186. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  187. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  188. - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
  189. parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  190. addresses/ports.
  191. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  192. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  193. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  194. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  195. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  196. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  197. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  198. o Robustness/stability fixes:
  199. - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
  200. poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
  201. cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
  202. on Windows too.
  203. - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
  204. we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
  205. to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
  206. threadsafeness.
  207. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  208. - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
  209. and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  210. appropriate nodes.
  211. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  212. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  213. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  214. that will want high uptime circuits.
  215. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  216. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  217. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  218. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  219. - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
  220. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  221. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  222. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  223. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  224. - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
  225. to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
  226. circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
  227. uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  228. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  229. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  230. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  231. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  232. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  233. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  234. when we try to launch one.
  235. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
  236. rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
  237. - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
  238. "ShutdownWaitLength".
  239. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  240. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  241. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  242. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
  243. and to take errno into account where possible.
  244. o Bug fixes:
  245. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
  246. pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
  247. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  248. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  249. - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
  250. file more reasonable.
  251. - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
  252. into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
  253. addresses -- it won't.
  254. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  255. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  256. for google.com" problem.
  257. - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
  258. so it's not just "unknown platform".
  259. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
  260. If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
  261. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  262. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  263. they're malformed.
  264. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  265. they could use instead.
  266. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  267. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
  268. means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
  269. already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  270. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  271. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  272. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  273. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  274. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  275. the same series.
  276. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  277. the socks reject.
  278. o Helpful fixes:
  279. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  280. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  281. it was.
  282. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  283. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  284. private-IP addresses.
  285. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  286. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  287. for now.
  288. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  289. smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
  290. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  291. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  292. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  293. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  294. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  295. wrong.
  296. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  297. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  298. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  299. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  300. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  301. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  302. - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
  303. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  304. we're leaking.
  305. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  306. addresses.
  307. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  308. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  309. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  310. whether the server is hibernating.
  311. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  312. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  313. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  314. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  315. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  316. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  317. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  318. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  319. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  320. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  321. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  322. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  323. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  324. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  325. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  326. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  327. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  328. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  329. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  330. creating actual system users.
  331. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  332. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  333. in 0.1.0.x).
  334. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  335. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  336. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  337. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  338. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  339. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  340. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  341. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  342. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  343. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  344. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  345. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  346. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  347. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  348. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  349. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  350. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  351. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  352. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  353. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  354. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  355. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  356. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  357. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  358. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  359. existing torrc files.
  360. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  361. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  362. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  363. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  364. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  365. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  366. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  367. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  368. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  369. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  370. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  371. file descriptors available.
  372. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  373. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  374. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  375. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  376. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  377. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  378. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  379. freak out.
  380. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  381. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  382. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  383. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  384. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  385. logs, etc.
  386. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  387. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  388. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  389. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  390. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  391. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  392. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  393. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  394. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  395. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  396. 800kB/s of capacity.
  397. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  398. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  399. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  400. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  401. need as much processor time.
  402. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  403. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  404. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  405. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  406. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  407. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  408. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  409. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  410. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  411. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  412. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  413. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  414. resetting.
  415. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  416. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  417. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  418. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  419. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  420. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  421. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  422. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  423. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  424. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  425. to a file.
  426. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  427. style address, then we'd crash.
  428. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  429. a dirserver is broken.
  430. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  431. may work better.
  432. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  433. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  434. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  435. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  436. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  437. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  438. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  439. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  440. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  441. take any away.
  442. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  443. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  444. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  445. DataDirectory.
  446. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  447. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  448. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  449. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  450. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  451. values at once couldn't work.
  452. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  453. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  454. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  455. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  456. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  457. they can handle any number of routers.
  458. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  459. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  460. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  461. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  462. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  463. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  464. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  465. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  466. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  467. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  468. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  469. - Make hibernation actually work.
  470. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  471. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  472. don't use the stream status code.
  473. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  474. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  475. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  476. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  477. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  478. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  479. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  480. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  481. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  482. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  483. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  484. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  485. bit platforms.
  486. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  487. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  488. win32 socket errors better.
  489. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  490. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  491. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  492. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  493. happier.
  494. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  495. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  496. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  497. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  498. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  499. right after sending the begin cell.
  500. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  501. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  502. exit nodes too. Oops.
  503. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  504. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  505. the user would get no response.
  506. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  507. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  508. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  509. forever.
  510. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  511. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  512. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  513. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  514. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  515. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  516. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  517. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  518. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  519. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  520. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  521. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  522. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  523. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  524. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  525. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  526. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  527. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  528. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  529. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  530. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  531. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  532. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  533. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  534. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  535. so we don't see those messages days later.
  536. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  537. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  538. bug).
  539. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  540. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  541. they ran out of file descriptors.
  542. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  543. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  544. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  545. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  546. recent enough.
  547. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  548. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  549. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  550. the ones we find in directories.)
  551. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  552. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  553. if you don't want it open.
  554. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  555. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  556. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  557. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  558. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  559. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  560. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  561. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  562. overflow behavior.
  563. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  564. hey.)
  565. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  566. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  567. o Features (circuits and streams):
  568. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  569. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  570. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  571. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  572. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  573. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  574. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  575. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  576. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  577. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  578. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  579. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  580. from Geoff Goodell.
  581. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  582. pick it anyway.
  583. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  584. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  585. to fill the last cell completely.
  586. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  587. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  588. o Features (bandwidth):
  589. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  590. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  591. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  592. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  593. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  594. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  595. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  596. your billing cycle starts on.
  597. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  598. hibernation properties by
  599. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  600. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  601. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  602. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  603. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  604. o Features (directories):
  605. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  606. nickname to its identity key.
  607. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  608. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  609. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  610. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  611. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  612. appropriate.
  613. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  614. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  615. running-routers.z
  616. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  617. will be able to get a directory.
  618. - Http proxy support
  619. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  620. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  621. be routed through this host.
  622. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  623. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  624. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  625. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  626. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  627. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  628. o Features (packages and install):
  629. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  630. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  631. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  632. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  633. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  634. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  635. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  636. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  637. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  638. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  639. is broken.
  640. o Features (ui controller):
  641. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  642. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  643. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  644. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  645. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  646. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  647. with the control port.
  648. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  649. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  650. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  651. configuration to torrc.
  652. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  653. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  654. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  655. o Features (config and command-line):
  656. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  657. not on the command line.
  658. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  659. options.
  660. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  661. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  662. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  663. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  664. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  665. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  666. - New log format in config:
  667. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  668. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  669. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  670. from their dirserver.
  671. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  672. and then exit.
  673. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  674. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  675. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  676. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  677. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  678. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  679. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  680. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  681. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  682. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  683. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  684. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  685. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  686. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  687. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  688. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  689. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  690. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  691. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  692. than once per minute.
  693. o Features (other):
  694. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  695. get back to normal.)
  696. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  697. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  698. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  699. log more informatively.
  700. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  701. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  702. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  703. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  704. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  705. them act more like real nodes.
  706. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  707. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  708. 1024) file descriptors.
  709. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  710. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  711. o Bugfixes:
  712. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  713. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  714. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  715. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  716. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  717. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  718. intermittent connections.
  719. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  720. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  721. reattaches.
  722. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  723. in reporting stats locally.
  724. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  725. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  726. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  727. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  728. o Bugfixes:
  729. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  730. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  731. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  732. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  733. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  734. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  735. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  736. list to decide who's running.
  737. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  738. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  739. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  740. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  741. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  742. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  743. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  744. for pointing out this bug.)
  745. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  746. directory.
  747. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  748. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  749. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  750. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  751. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  752. o Protocol changes:
  753. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  754. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  755. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  756. hadn't heard of before.
  757. o Features:
  758. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  759. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  760. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  761. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  762. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  763. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  764. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  765. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  766. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  767. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  768. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  769. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  770. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  771. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  772. - Directory caching.
  773. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  774. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  775. directory they've pulled down.
  776. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  777. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  778. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  779. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  780. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  781. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  782. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  783. by hash-of-key).
  784. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  785. This isn't used yet.
  786. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  787. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  788. clients don't use this yet.)
  789. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  790. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  791. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  792. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  793. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  794. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  795. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  796. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  797. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  798. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  799. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  800. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  801. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  802. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  803. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  804. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  805. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  806. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  807. - File and name management:
  808. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  809. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  810. as datadir.
  811. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  812. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  813. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  814. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  815. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  816. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  817. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  818. to use.
  819. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  820. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  821. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  822. locally.
  823. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  824. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  825. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  826. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  827. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  828. - New docs in the tarball:
  829. - tor-doc.html.
  830. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  831. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  832. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  833. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  834. know you might want to get it verified.
  835. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  836. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  837. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  838. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  839. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  840. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  841. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  842. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  843. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  844. "GET /".
  845. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  846. an exitnode.
  847. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  848. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  849. or exit nodes.
  850. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  851. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  852. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  853. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  854. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  855. ask them to resolve the host "".
  856. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  857. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  858. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  859. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  860. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  861. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  862. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  863. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  864. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  865. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  866. them.
  867. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  868. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  869. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  870. exit nodes.
  871. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  872. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  873. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  874. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  875. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  876. o Fixes for security bugs:
  877. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  878. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  879. a trusted dirserver.
  880. o Other bugfixes:
  881. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  882. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  883. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  884. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  885. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  886. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  887. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  888. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  889. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  890. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  891. have failed.
  892. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  893. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  894. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  895. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  896. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  897. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  898. easily.
  899. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  900. settings too.
  901. o Features:
  902. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  903. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  904. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  905. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  906. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  907. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  908. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  909. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  910. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  911. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  912. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  913. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  914. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  915. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  916. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  917. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  918. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  919. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  920. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  921. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  922. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  923. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  924. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  925. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  926. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  927. server.
  928. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  929. o Features:
  930. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  931. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  932. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  933. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  934. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  935. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  936. if you decrypted them correctly.
  937. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  938. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  939. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  940. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  941. in-memory directories too.
  942. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  943. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  944. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  945. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  946. just close the circ.
  947. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  948. - Better debugging for tls errors
  949. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  950. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  951. o Bugfixes:
  952. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  953. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  954. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  955. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  956. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  957. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  958. it tells you about the first error.
  959. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  960. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  961. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  962. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  963. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  964. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  965. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  966. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  967. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  968. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  969. o Portability:
  970. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  971. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  972. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  973. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  974. torrc. (Woo!)
  975. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  976. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  977. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  978. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  979. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  980. expect it to have a nickname.
  981. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  982. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  983. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  984. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  985. the dns farm to do it.
  986. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  987. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  988. directory.
  989. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  990. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  991. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  992. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  993. but that aren't warnings
  994. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  995. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  996. we would crash.
  997. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  998. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  999. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  1000. - include missing header fcntl.h
  1001. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  1002. - deal with hardware word alignment
  1003. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  1004. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  1005. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  1006. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  1007. by kill -USR1 currently.
  1008. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  1009. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  1010. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  1011. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  1012. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  1013. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  1014. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  1015. o Bugfixes:
  1016. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  1017. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  1018. - And fix a few endian issues.
  1019. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  1020. o New features:
  1021. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  1022. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  1023. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  1024. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  1025. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  1026. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  1027. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  1028. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  1029. about as a server.
  1030. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  1031. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  1032. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  1033. o Bugfixes:
  1034. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  1035. simply not true.
  1036. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  1037. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  1038. side isn't reading right then.
  1039. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  1040. RecommendedVersions
  1041. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  1042. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  1043. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  1044. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  1045. o New features:
  1046. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  1047. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  1048. e.g. poblano.
  1049. o Bugfixes:
  1050. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  1051. crashed.
  1052. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  1053. o Bugfixes:
  1054. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  1055. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  1056. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  1057. connection is finished.
  1058. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  1059. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  1060. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  1061. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  1062. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  1063. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  1064. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  1065. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  1066. rather than warn and continue.
  1067. - Make --version work
  1068. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  1069. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  1070. o New features:
  1071. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  1072. knows it's working.
  1073. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  1074. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  1075. clearly thwarted.)
  1076. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  1077. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  1078. so you can collect coredumps there.
  1079. o Bugfixes:
  1080. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  1081. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  1082. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  1083. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  1084. dns cache actually gets populated.
  1085. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  1086. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  1087. end cell down it first.
  1088. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  1089. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  1090. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  1091. o New features:
  1092. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  1093. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  1094. errors happen.
  1095. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  1096. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  1097. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  1098. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  1099. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  1100. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  1101. it.
  1102. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  1103. o Bugfixes:
  1104. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  1105. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  1106. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  1107. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  1108. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  1109. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  1110. dirservers.
  1111. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  1112. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  1113. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  1114. o New features:
  1115. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  1116. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  1117. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  1118. tor. It even has a man page.
  1119. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  1120. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  1121. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  1122. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  1123. his/her torrc.
  1124. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  1125. o Bugfixes:
  1126. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  1127. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  1128. o New features:
  1129. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  1130. it, apt-getters. :)
  1131. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  1132. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  1133. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  1134. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  1135. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  1136. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  1137. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  1138. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  1139. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  1140. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  1141. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  1142. to new ones.
  1143. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  1144. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  1145. o Bugfixes:
  1146. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  1147. after a while.
  1148. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  1149. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  1150. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  1151. o Bugfixes:
  1152. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  1153. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  1154. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  1155. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  1156. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  1157. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  1158. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  1159. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  1160. logfile so you know it's working.
  1161. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  1162. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  1163. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  1164. o Bugfixes:
  1165. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  1166. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  1167. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  1168. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  1169. o Bugfixes:
  1170. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  1171. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  1172. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  1173. o Features:
  1174. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  1175. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  1176. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  1177. with MorphMix).
  1178. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  1179. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  1180. relay cells.
  1181. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  1182. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  1183. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  1184. this hop.
  1185. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  1186. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  1187. been made so far.
  1188. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  1189. o Bugfixes:
  1190. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  1191. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  1192. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  1193. o Features:
  1194. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  1195. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  1196. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  1197. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  1198. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  1199. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  1200. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  1201. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  1202. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  1203. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  1204. exit nodes.
  1205. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  1206. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  1207. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  1208. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  1209. really screw things up.
  1210. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  1211. working.
  1212. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  1213. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  1214. established.
  1215. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  1216. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  1217. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  1218. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  1219. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  1220. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  1221. o Documentation:
  1222. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  1223. o Configuration:
  1224. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  1225. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  1226. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  1227. ORPort>0.
  1228. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  1229. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  1230. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  1231. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  1232. - to get ownership/permissions right
  1233. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  1234. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  1235. pull down a directory again
  1236. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  1237. causing server crashes
  1238. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  1239. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  1240. - exit if bind() fails
  1241. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  1242. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  1243. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  1244. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  1245. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  1246. o Documentation:
  1247. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  1248. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  1249. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  1250. are down.
  1251. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  1252. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  1253. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  1254. exists, rather than failing
  1255. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  1256. which AP connections are standing by
  1257. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  1258. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  1259. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  1260. circuit.
  1261. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  1262. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  1263. o Configuration:
  1264. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  1265. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  1266. where to bind
  1267. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  1268. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  1269. - Reloads config on HUP
  1270. - Usage info on -h or --help
  1271. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  1272. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  1273. o General stability:
  1274. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  1275. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  1276. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  1277. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  1278. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  1279. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  1280. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  1281. o Buffers:
  1282. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  1283. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  1284. o Autoconf improvements:
  1285. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  1286. - Make install now works
  1287. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  1288. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  1289. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  1290. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  1291. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  1292. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  1293. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup