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- This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
- of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
- each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
- Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-xx
- This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
- distribution design, adds features to make Tor harder to block,
- allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy,
- o New v3 directory design:
- - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
- about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
- network status document rather than each publishing their own
- opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
- document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
- authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
- the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
- for details.
- - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
- in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
- ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
- dannenberg (run by CCC).
- - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
- long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
- generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
- to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
- "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
- - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
- v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
- Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
- - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
- less often, now that v3 is recommended.
- o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
- - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
- 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
- be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
- to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
- attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
- OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
- to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
- - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
- so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
- plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
- certain censored countries by default again.
- - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
- Tor's x509 certificates.
- o Implement bridge relays:
- - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
- listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
- list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
- known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
- See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
- - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
- bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
- to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
- and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
- rather than "v2,v3".
- - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
- relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
- bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
- can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
- mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
- bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
- all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
- - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
- for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
- stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
- so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
- o Implement bridge directory authorities:
- - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
- they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
- a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
- including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
- yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
- - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
- - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
- bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
- responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
- - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
- bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
- controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
- to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
- bridges are functioning.
- - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
- but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
- they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
- - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
- the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
- - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
- the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
- known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
- knows that password. Unset by default.
- - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
- report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
- privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
- able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
- certain countries start trying to block bridges.
- - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
- reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
- to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
- the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
- and bridges@torproject.org.
- o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
- - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
- dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
- for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
- anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
- The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
- - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
- resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
- generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
- allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
- default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
- patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
- - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
- address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
- longer a completely silly thing to do.
- o Major features (relay usability):
- - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
- a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
- relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
- OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
- proposal 111 for details.
- - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
- User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
- under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
- before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
- pick these ports.)
- - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
- SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
- on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
- o Major features (directory authorities):
- - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
- mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
- whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
- whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
- "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
- stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
- - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
- to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
- how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
- nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
- - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
- to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
- median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
- proposal 108.
- - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
- routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
- extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
- 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
- extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
- authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
- info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
- caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
- download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
- - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
- a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
- "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
- same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
- disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
- - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
- cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
- if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
- annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
- each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
- general, controller, or bridge.
- o Major features (other):
- - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
- Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
- vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
- 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
- by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
- - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
- hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
- function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
- on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
- fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
- - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
- "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
- connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
- connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
- fetching.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
- - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
- used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
- Sebastian Hahn.
- - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
- with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
- - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
- use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
- list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
- kind of the revenge of bug 222.
- - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
- directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
- - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
- don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
- unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
- o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
- - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
- Dan Kaminsky.
- - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
- a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
- - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
- as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
- o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
- - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
- a private address space. Patch from lodger.
- - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
- relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
- bug 516.
- - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
- address maps to an internal address space.
- - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
- - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
- at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
- Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
- complements proposal 107.
- - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
- Valid and Running. Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
- Damon McCoy.
- - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
- a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
- reported by taranis and lodger.
- - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
- using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
- pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
- - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
- put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
- clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
- anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
- the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
- set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
- or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
- - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
- enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
- guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
- bug 448.
- - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
- being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
- o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
- - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
- can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
- avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
- enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
- - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
- listeners. Reported by mwenge.
- o Major bugfixes (other):
- - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
- would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
- 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
- by nwf.
- - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
- to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
- saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
- pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
- each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
- automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
- only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
- - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
- mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
- IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
- - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
- huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
- clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
- o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
- - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
- write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
- newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
- make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
- and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
- eat all of our bandwidth.
- - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
- look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
- at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
- Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
- order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
- - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
- Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
- bug 688, reported by mfr.
- - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
- - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
- rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
- bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
- o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
- - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
- preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
- - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
- to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
- the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
- - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
- failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
- - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
- MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
- rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
- they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
- o Performance improvements (memory):
- - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
- replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
- Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
- ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
- - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
- used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
- of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
- also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
- memory fragmentation.
- - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
- Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
- client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
- queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
- will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
- of traffic.
- - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
- of them were actually distinct.
- - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
- RAM overhead used.
- - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
- for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
- 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
- - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
- of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
- - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
- empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
- performance-intensive.
- - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
- - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
- efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
- - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
- against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
- include paths.
- o Performance improvements (socket management):
- - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
- active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
- our allocated connection limit.
- - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
- anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
- Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
- in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
- client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
- workaround.
- - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
- cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
- o Performance improvements (CPU use):
- - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
- is interested in a given message.
- - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
- speed startup, especially on directory caches.
- - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
- the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
- implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
- OpenSSL.
- - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
- instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
- advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
- voodoo.
- - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
- counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
- network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
- they are the same).
- - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
- needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
- - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
- on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
- between processes.
- o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
- - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
- already have enough directory information to build circuits.
- - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
- authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
- no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
- working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
- versions anyway.
- - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
- relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
- decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
- - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
- estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
- handle more, do another bandwidth test.
- - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
- directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
- documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
- since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
- - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
- on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
- You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
- config option.
- o Changed config option behavior (features):
- - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
- helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
- file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
- - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
- Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
- ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
- this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
- - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
- have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
- - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
- PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
- - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
- accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
- and are reaching it.
- - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
- CookieAuthentication at the same time.
- - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
- stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
- o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
- - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
- generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
- based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
- - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
- AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
- - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
- - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
- set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
- and ioerror.
- - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
- BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
- they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
- - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
- minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
- - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
- - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
- lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
- in Oct 2004.)
- - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
- now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
- o New config options:
- - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
- servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
- running a test network on a single host. XXX
- - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
- AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
- user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
- rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
- - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
- authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
- networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
- the approved-routers file.
- - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
- authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
- v2 directory information.
- o Minor features (other):
- - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
- to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
- on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
- - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
- accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
- negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
- proposal 110.
- - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
- to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
- we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
- a fallback consensus by default though, because it wasn't making
- bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
- - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
- an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
- fix for bug 535.
- - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
- than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
- when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
- routers anyway.
- - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
- in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
- and don't expire the descriptor until then.
- - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
- of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
- from localhost.
- - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
- we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
- if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
- back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
- - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
- none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
- - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
- from croup.)
- - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
- can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
- logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
- - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
- port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
- of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
- adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
- - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
- contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
- meet stdio.
- o Minor bugfixes (other):
- - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
- errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
- unhandled errors.
- - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
- address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
- network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
- - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
- example, when answering a directory request), reset the
- time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
- on the socket.
- - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
- bandwidthburst values.
- - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
- using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
- down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
- to mark all our entry points down.
- - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
- it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
- supposed to tolerate these servers now.
- - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
- a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
- address.
- - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
- more often than they are allowed to appear.
- - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
- - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
- cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
- - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
- o Controller features:
- - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
- that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
- - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
- - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
- ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
- something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
- addresses.
- - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
- multiple controller passwords.
- - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
- hard time generating real Internet newlines.
- - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
- "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
- Robert Hogan.
- - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
- GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
- - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
- cookie authentication file, and config option
- CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
- - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
- match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
- - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
- from Robert Hogan.
- - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
- Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
- - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
- controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
- support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
- - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
- with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
- Patch from Tup.
- - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
- use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
- preemptively.
- - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
- so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
- - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
- - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
- whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
- are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
- - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
- the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
- - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
- Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
- - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
- as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
- report the value as a "minimum skew."
- o Controller bugfixes:
- - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
- "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
- - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
- processes can't run us out of memory.
- - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
- so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
- - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
- correctly.
- - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
- running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
- it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
- "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
- - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
- signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
- 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
- the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
- isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
- - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
- compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
- field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
- - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
- - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
- server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
- by daejees.
- - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
- caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
- by daejees.
- - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
- circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
- to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
- - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
- WARN-severity events.
- o Portability / building / compiling:
- - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
- warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
- - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
- To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
- - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
- build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
- - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
- - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
- - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
- - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
- know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
- warning.
- - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
- string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
- some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
- the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
- Use this version consistently in log messages.
- - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
- - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
- partial results on small file reads.
- - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
- - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
- a directory. Fix from lodger.
- - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
- many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
- - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
- on mingw.
- - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
- invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
- to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
- logging for the unit tests.
- - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
- non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
- programs.
- o Logging improvements:
- - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
- logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
- - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
- - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
- - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
- make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
- - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
- errors.
- - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
- as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
- Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
- the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
- - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
- - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
- it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
- - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
- consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
- - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
- hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
- - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
- Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
- - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
- about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
- - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
- Good in combination with --hash-password.
- - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
- ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
- yet.
- - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
- wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
- - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
- - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
- free-lists.
- - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
- - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
- message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
- OpenBSD or Windows or what.
- - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
- buffer type.
- - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
- logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
- - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
- try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
- makes the log messages nicer.
- - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
- "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
- o Contributed scripts and tools:
- - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
- the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
- Perry.
- - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
- Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
- adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
- - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
- server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
- a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
- explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
- connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
- - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
- operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
- o Newly deprecated features:
- - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
- GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
- protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
- - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
- o Removed features:
- - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
- corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
- feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
- - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
- since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
- eventdns code.
- - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
- - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
- bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
- 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
- if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
- downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
- - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
- it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
- 2004.
- - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
- from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
- assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
- send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
- - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
- and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
- more easily.
- - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
- and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
- and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
- - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
- them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
- patch from Karsten Loesing.
- - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
- We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
- to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
- - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
- that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
- arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
- code), this assumption no longer holds.
- - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
- obsolete.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
- Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
- exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
- exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
- o Security fixes:
- - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
- relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
- ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
- many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
- on network address.
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
- buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
- - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
- on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
- - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
- service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
- - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
- requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
- crashing or mis-answering these requests.
- - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
- not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
- purpose. Fixes bug 539.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
- rebuild our server descriptor.
- - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
- networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
- unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
- - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
- in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
- nonstandard integer types.
- - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
- --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
- - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
- directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
- that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
- by lodger.
- - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
- responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
- that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
- when they receive them.
- - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
- This includes some 64-bit systems.
- - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
- the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
- from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
- - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
- - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
- router_get_by_hexdigest().
- - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
- port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
- happened.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
- Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
- hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
- bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
- lists for a few hours each day.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
- happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
- connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
- "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
- Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
- - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
- rend_process_relay_cell().
- o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
- hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
- they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
- - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
- connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
- digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
- changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
- o Major bugfixes (other):
- - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
- HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
- dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
- - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
- as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
- circuit cannibalization).
- - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
- the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
- Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
- that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
- clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
- consensus. Fixes bug 529.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
- --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
- bug 499.
- - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
- router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
- absent. Resolves bug 467.
- - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
- a way to trigger this remotely.)
- - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
- OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
- were reporting the dir port.)
- - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
- command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
- - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
- the future. Fixes bug 434.
- - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
- in the future.
- - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
- onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
- the onion key from getting rotated.
- - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
- this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
- - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
- cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
- is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
- - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
- option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
- Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
- X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
- ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
- security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
- should upgrade.
- In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
- path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
- have upgraded.
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
- deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
- become more of a headache than it's worth.
- o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
- - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
- proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
- from Mike Perry.
- - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
- will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
- - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
- guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
- three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
- by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
- o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
- - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
- they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
- some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
- circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
- o Minor features (controller):
- - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
- is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
- a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
- protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
- o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
- greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
- - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
- the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
- its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
- two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
- powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
- use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
- Based on patch from Mike Perry.
- - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
- weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
- would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
- if we ran off the end of the list.
- - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
- cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
- where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
- - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
- every time we change any piece of our config.
- - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
- encourage people using them to stop.
- - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
- from tup.
- - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
- servers to choose a circuit.
- - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
- unparseable piece of it.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
- Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
- remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
- configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
- in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
- TorK, etc. Or worse.
- o Major security fixes:
- - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
- do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
- Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
- problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
- bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
- o Major bugfixes (compilation):
- - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
- an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
- - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
- routerlist while inserting a new router.
- - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
- don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
- from croup.)
- - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
- orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
- definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
- found by croup.
- - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
- the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
- and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
- - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
- bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
- cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
- - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
- never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
- guard list unless we need to.
- o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
- - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
- don't get overused as guards.
- o Minor bugfixes (directory):
- - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
- version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
- - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
- once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
- o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
- connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
- Resolves bug 444.
- o Minor bugfixes (misc):
- - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
- cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
- - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
- bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
- unlikely. Patch from lodger.
- - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
- - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
- Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
- change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
- and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
- o Directory authority changes:
- - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
- IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
- or use hidden services.
- o Major bugfixes (crashes):
- - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
- as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
- but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
- behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
- - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
- to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
- - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
- - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
- by lodger.)
- o Major bugfixes (security):
- - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
- that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
- that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
- o Major bugfixes (resource management):
- - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
- networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
- every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
- - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
- don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
- not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
- - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
- lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
- think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
- purpose=controller.
- - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
- we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
- network-statuses.
- - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
- having a hard time downloading.
- - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
- partial results on small file reads.
- - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
- routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
- the gaps in the store get very large.
- o Minor features:
- - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
- authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
- documents.
- - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
- OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
- Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
- This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
- selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
- address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
- well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
- other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
- Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
- of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
- free speech on the Internet.
- o Major features, client performance:
- - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
- let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
- succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
- choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
- - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
- middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
- is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
- - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
- application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
- 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
- that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
- - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
- to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
- make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
- unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
- o Major features, client functionality:
- - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
- server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
- plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
- config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
- you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
- - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
- bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
- mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
- can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
- through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
- - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
- 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
- SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
- o Major features, servers:
- - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
- with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
- asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
- would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
- authenticated, so use with care.
- - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
- and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
- masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
- lots of memory.
- - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
- checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
- that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
- to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
- in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
- easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
- o Improvements on DNS support:
- - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
- from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
- concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
- multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
- - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
- records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
- IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
- now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
- - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
- DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
- redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
- DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
- RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
- lets you turn it off.
- - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
- wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
- their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
- - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
- requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
- useful to the network.
- - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
- useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
- - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
- lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
- - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
- our tests for DNS hijacking.
- o Improvements on reachability testing:
- - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
- established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
- so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
- bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
- - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
- so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
- - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
- if their identity keys are as expected.
- - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
- chews through many circuits before giving up.
- - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
- to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
- - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
- to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
- we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
- other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
- - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
- authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
- long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
- connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
- more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
- 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
- o Improvements on rate limiting:
- - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
- capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
- than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
- - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
- would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
- to send them.
- - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
- they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
- more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
- - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
- - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
- connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
- - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
- writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
- trying to flush.
- - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
- a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
- o Major features, NT services:
- - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
- command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
- "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
- existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
- will look for its configuration file in the service user's
- %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
- directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
- directory.)
- - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
- directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
- the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
- from Matt Edman.
- - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
- get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
- exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
- command line.
- - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
- stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
- o Directory authority improvements:
- - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
- bandwidth cutoffs.
- - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
- - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
- too much load to the exit nodes.
- - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
- about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
- clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
- The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
- protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
- - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
- clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
- having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
- moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
- - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
- can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
- broken. Not used yet.
- - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
- approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
- authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
- of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
- that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
- - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
- non-versioning dirservers.
- - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
- without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
- restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
- per day.
- - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
- a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
- authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
- clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
- o Directory mirrors and clients:
- - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
- directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
- - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
- dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
- gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
- - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
- longer count the failure against the total number of failures
- allowed for the object we're trying to download.
- - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
- discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
- recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
- the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
- routers for even longer.
- - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
- headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
- caching HTTP proxies.
- - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
- haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
- causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
- you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
- o Major fixes, crashes:
- - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
- one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
- - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
- out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
- bug 390.)
- - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
- cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
- - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
- stream is detached.
- - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
- uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
- - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
- service circuits (reported by mwenge).
- - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
- and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
- - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
- handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
- on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
- - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
- o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
- - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
- /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
- "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
- want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
- - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
- 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
- - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
- keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
- we never stay up for a week ourselves.
- - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
- in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
- could return an unnamed server instead.
- - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
- many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
- a more attractive target for compromise.)
- - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
- able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
- only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
- - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
- Stefan Nordhausen.
- - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
- connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
- o Major fixes, other:
- - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
- uptime in the descriptor.
- - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
- up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
- - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
- indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
- discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
- - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
- move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
- Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
- the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
- - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
- if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
- our DirPort now, etc.
- - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
- its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
- back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
- o New config options or behaviors:
- - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
- in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
- EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
- - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
- ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
- are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
- - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
- - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
- the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
- for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
- - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
- disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
- a timely fashion.
- - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
- the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
- - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
- - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
- accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
- options files.
- - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
- NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
- - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
- avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
- AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
- is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
- - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
- and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
- setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
- - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
- 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
- SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
- to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
- - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
- - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
- suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
- - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
- choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
- - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
- directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
- if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
- the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
- - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
- for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
- as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
- authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
- to continue being hidden service authorities too.
- - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
- - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
- ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
- an address.
- - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
- descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
- your ORPort is set.
- o Docs:
- - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
- new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
- versions too.
- - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
- addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
- - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
- and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
- o Packaging, porting, and contrib
- - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
- whether the config options are bad or good.
- - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
- to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
- - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
- take arguments rather than require direct editing.
- - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
- result more than once.
- - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
- - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
- esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
- - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
- values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
- - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
- - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
- Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
- before we check for libevent.
- - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
- - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
- or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
- it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
- win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
- recommendation system saner.)
- - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
- define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
- - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
- now universal binaries.
- - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
- - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
- for sure!)
- - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
- and many others).
- - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
- - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
- ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
- then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
- - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
- bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
- o Minor features, controller:
- - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
- control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
- the next development series, so it's good to give people some
- advance warning.
- - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
- use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
- - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
- impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
- mwenge; closes bug 394.)
- - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
- address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
- directive.
- - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
- make them generated in every case where we get a successful
- connected or resolved cell.
- - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
- available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
- - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
- can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
- - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
- - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
- - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
- actual keys.
- - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
- - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
- entry guard status as it changes.
- - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
- immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
- successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
- watching for STREAM events.
- - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
- field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
- event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
- a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
- Mike Perry)
- - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
- controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
- - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
- working much like those for circuit events.
- - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
- about the current status of a router.
- - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
- a router's status has changed.
- - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
- can tell which events and features are supported.
- - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
- client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
- - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
- identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
- - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
- of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
- for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
- and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
- for more information.
- - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
- best guess to the user.
- - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
- descriptor has changed.
- - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
- - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
- don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
- o Minor bugfixes, controller:
- - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
- event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
- - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
- to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
- - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
- implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
- ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
- - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
- clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
- that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
- 3 of bug 367.)
- - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
- protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
- "INTERNAL".
- - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
- we finally get the IP from an exit node.
- - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
- long.
- - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
- flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
- the controller from learning about current events.
- - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
- reported by Mike Perry.
- - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
- when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
- - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
- controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
- - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
- about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
- long nicknames where appropriate.
- - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
- make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
- not requested.
- - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
- SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
- - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
- the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
- - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
- o Minor features, code performance:
- - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
- algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
- - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
- time.
- - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
- some profiles, but not others.)
- - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
- arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
- (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
- - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
- operations, for profiling.
- - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
- malloc(0) returns a pointer.
- - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
- split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
- These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
- also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
- - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
- This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
- o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
- - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
- - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
- no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
- in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
- we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
- - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
- even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
- family lists conveniently.
- o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
- - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
- recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
- - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
- DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
- - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
- For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
- its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
- - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
- such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
- - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
- when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
- - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
- as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
- of it), is not therefore "up".
- o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
- - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
- what version a router is running.
- - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
- "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
- secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
- - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
- preceded by "opt".
- - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
- to have the wrong circ_id_type.
- - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
- actually mattered since 0.0.9.
- - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
- changed.
- o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
- - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
- whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
- bug 373.)
- - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
- time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
- time it is now.
- - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
- throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
- handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
- goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
- - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
- handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
- days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
- - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
- "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
- - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
- unstable ones.
- - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
- 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
- authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
- but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
- - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
- 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
- - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
- - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
- get one we don't recognize.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
- o Security bugfixes:
- - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
- servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
- - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
- - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
- is set.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
- AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
- unlisted router (reported by seeess).
- Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
- o Major bugfixes:
- - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
- an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
- answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
- - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
- hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
- its circuits on demand.
- - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
- require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
- we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
- connections more stable on average.
- - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
- tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
- servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
- o Security bugfixes:
- - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
- cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
- the first time.
- - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
- certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
- handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
- - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
- - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
- don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
- - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
- Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
- directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
- - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
- whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
- do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
- This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
- - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
- it can't resolve its hostname.
- - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
- and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
- Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
- - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
- "extendcircuit" request.
- - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
- response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
- - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
- more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
- voodoo.
- - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
- uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
- only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
- tolower().
- - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
- methods: these are known to be buggy.
- - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
- documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
- we don't recognize.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
- due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
- bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
- - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
- - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
- then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
- circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
- changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
- test reachability, so you won't publish.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
- and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
- - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
- a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
- a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
- later than now.
- - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
- own server descriptor yet.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
- o Major bugfixes:
- - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
- reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
- servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
- make sure to test via one of these.
- - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
- descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
- - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
- descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
- servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
- o Minor bugfixes:
- - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
- "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
- - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
- o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
- - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
- - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
- directory authority.
- - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
- while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
- exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
- - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
- o Other fixes:
- - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
- - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
- first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
- right after that.
- - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
- and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
- again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
- current guards when picking a new guard.
- - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
- is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
- when we had more than one pending.
- - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
- Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
- a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
- - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
- - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
- - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
- mapaddress. It's none of our business.
- - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
- middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
- debug the reachability problems better.
- o Log / documentation fixes:
- - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
- log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
- about protocol violations by others.
- - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
- - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
- about what happened to our old torrc.
- Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
- o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
- - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
- logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
- - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
- and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
- Palfrader).
- - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
- a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
- "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
- - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
- out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
- - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
- your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
- HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
- The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
- - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
- to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
- on malicious huge inputs.
- o Security fixes, major:
- - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
- non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
- sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
- misreading their logs.
- - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
- nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
- when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
- become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
- dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
- config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
- want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
- Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
- - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
- destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
- which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
- that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
- authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
- use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
- if you can.
- - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
- . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
- . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
- firewall options forbid.
- . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
- firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
- can only proxy to certain destinations.
- - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
- - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
- out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
- through privoxy.
- - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
- keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
- each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
- periodically, so it's not so bad.)
- - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
- node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
- already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
- - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
- are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
- to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
- preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
- - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
- was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
- o Security fixes, minor:
- - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
- Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
- easily.
- - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
- mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
- is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
- - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
- if we've not heard of a server.
- - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
- OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
- startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
- - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
- the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
- humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
- - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
- don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
- - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
- circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
- introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
- useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
- aids some statistical attacks.
- - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
- It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
- have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
- exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
- - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
- - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
- service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
- back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
- that anyway.
- o Packaging improvements:
- - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
- search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
- - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
- there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
- - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
- - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
- "-Wall -g -O2".
- - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
- run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
- - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
- the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
- - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
- Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
- target arch.
- - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
- if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
- - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
- connections.
- - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
- tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
- - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
- They are useless now.
- - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
- easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
- is reachable by you.
- - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
- Thoenen.
- o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
- - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
- - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
- digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
- - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
- download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
- fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
- - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
- - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
- download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
- download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
- and isolating attacks better.
- - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
- hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
- - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
- haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
- tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
- minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
- - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
- not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
- go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
- to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
- - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
- are known.
- - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
- can answer v2 directory requests too.
- - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
- docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
- - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
- mirrors still cache and serve it).
- - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
- before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
- - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
- for clients and for servers.
- - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
- - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
- without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
- - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
- support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
- to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
- - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
- reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
- - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
- - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
- authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
- o Other directory improvements:
- - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
- fifth authoritative directory servers.
- - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
- a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
- when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
- to hang up on them.
- - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
- of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
- be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
- it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
- - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
- entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
- every 20 minutes.
- - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
- the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
- attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
- to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
- connections more reliable.
- - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
- like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
- top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
- - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
- from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
- we fail to connect).
- - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
- o Controller protocol improvements:
- - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
- than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
- in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
- applications without caring how our protocol works.
- - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
- entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
- - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
- many bytes we've used in this time period.
- - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
- AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
- a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
- entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
- - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
- expose guard nodes, config options/names.
- - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
- - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
- stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
- don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
- or "signal reload".
- - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
- we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
- option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
- - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
- controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
- a router in its role as directory authority.
- - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
- latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
- - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
- it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
- .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
- that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
- - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
- the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
- changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
- worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
- - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
- for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
- controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
- a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
- let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
- - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
- directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
- dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
- is enabled.
- - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
- that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
- "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
- - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
- message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
- just tell them to go read their logs.
- o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
- - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
- chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
- a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
- try to be a bit more fair.
- - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
- The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
- and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
- and we're using a default DirPort.
- - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
- CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
- CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
- build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
- - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
- services faster on the service end.
- - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
- remove them.
- - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
- warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
- - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
- server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
- line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
- - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
- of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
- bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
- abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
- in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
- - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
- truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
- descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
- purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
- - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
- 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
- translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
- - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
- of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
- - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
- Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
- - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
- might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
- - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
- It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
- o Other bugfixes and improvements:
- - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
- remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
- lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
- so we can be backward-compatible.
- - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
- resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
- if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
- themselves as localhost can guess their address.
- - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
- it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
- This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
- initial descriptor forever.
- - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
- hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
- the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
- the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
- rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
- - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
- reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
- has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
- servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
- high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
- suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
- - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
- circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
- - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
- connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
- space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
- feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
- been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
- - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
- socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
- leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
- - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
- - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
- closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
- ports that have changed.
- - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
- requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
- - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
- broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
- connections once a week.
- - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
- would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
- servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
- - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
- string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
- - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
- get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
- - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
- We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
- able to discover them.
- - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
- want to make it an NT service.
- - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
- running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
- - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
- - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
- memory leaks better.
- - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
- use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
- - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
- statistics are now uint64_t's.
- - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
- log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
- Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
- - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
- our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
- - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
- so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
- default ulimit -n is 1024.
- - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
- and its existence is confusing some users.
- o Config option fixes:
- - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
- to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
- addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
- - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
- - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
- that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
- for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
- - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
- since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
- or port.
- - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
- we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
- This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
- November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
- - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
- torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
- it would silently ignore the 6668.
- - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
- e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
- silently resetting it to its default.
- - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
- - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
- will be more likely to learn that it exists.
- - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
- - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
- config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
- that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
- - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
- only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
- - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
- - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
- Address config option.
- - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
- reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
- o Config option features:
- - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
- do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
- already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
- - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
- dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
- makes sense.
- - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
- and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
- info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
- PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
- - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
- option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
- Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
- - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
- accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
- smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
- in at least some cases.)
- - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
- as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
- revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
- - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
- with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
- by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
- nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
- currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
- even if we know they're jerks.
- - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
- applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
- socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
- with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
- - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
- you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
- every single internal or nonroutable network space.
- - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
- because older Tors do not understand it.
- - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
- moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
- - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
- get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
- around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
- - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
- for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
- to know about even the non-running descriptors.
- - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
- unattached before we fail it?
- - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
- at least this many seconds ago.
- - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
- at least this many seconds ago.
- - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
- using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
- o Improved and clearer log messages:
- - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
- them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
- lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
- by default.
- - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
- of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
- log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
- - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
- have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
- - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
- move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
- - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
- temporarily unreachable.
- - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
- Windows-style errno back.
- - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
- - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
- culling them.
- - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
- - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
- even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
- exactly for this case.
- - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
- warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
- don't warn twice about the same name.
- - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
- unreachability.
- - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
- it was self-testing that told us so.
- - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
- as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
- - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
- the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
- - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
- will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
- - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
- log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
- - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
- circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
- - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
- established a circuit.
- - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
- - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
- lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
- and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
- since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
- - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
- rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
- - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
- "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
- - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
- line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
- - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
- descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
- a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
- - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
- a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
- - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
- server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
- we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
- - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
- as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
- testing for reachability.
- - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
- more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
- to the torrc.
- - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
- o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
- sometimes they would trigger an assert.
- o Other important bugfixes:
- - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
- artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
- connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
- connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
- o Backported features:
- - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
- and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
- small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
- without getting overloaded.
- - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
- once more. This will become important once servers start sending
- 503's whenever they feel busy.
- - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
- Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
- directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
- - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
- from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
- o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
- corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
- the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
- - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
- too -- so detect and avoid this.
- - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
- giving an error).
- - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
- - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
- stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
- - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
- don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
- - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
- connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
- - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
- rendezvous circuits.
- - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
- o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
- messages so the operator knows what to expect.
- - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
- advertising it because of hibernation.
- - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
- - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
- - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
- that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
- that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
- - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
- us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
- - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
- the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
- - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
- - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
- exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
- policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
- as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
- reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
- - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
- try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
- - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
- only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
- be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
- - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
- so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
- - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
- - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
- most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
- - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
- (CVE-2005-2643).
- - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
- controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
- - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
- it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
- - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
- pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
- in the start menu.
- - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
- new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
- not-broken.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
- o New directory servers:
- - tor26 has changed IP address.
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
- - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
- pthreads libraries.
- - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
- claims its dirport is 0.
- - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
- getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
- Edman for the fix.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
- o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
- exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
- - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
- confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
- - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
- - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
- Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
- o Fixes on Win32:
- - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
- patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
- - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
- servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
- - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
- right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
- means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
- has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
- - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
- file.
- - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
- Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
- o Assert / crash bugs:
- - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
- maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
- arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
- (CVE-2005-2050).
- - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
- Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
- TLS errors better in other situations too.
- - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
- pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
- o Resource leaks:
- - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
- forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
- duplicate ram over time.
- - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
- reentry and threadsafeness.
- - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
- netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
- resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
- threading issues.
- - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
- leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
- - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
- point at your Tor server.
- - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
- Adam Langley.)
- - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
- - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
- we're leaking.
- o Protocol correctness:
- - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
- the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
- cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
- - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
- if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
- to abandon partially built circuits.
- - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
- fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
- right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
- fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
- descriptors we just dropped.
- - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
- - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
- and to take errno into account where possible.
- - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
- 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
- - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
- things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
- o Robustness improvements:
- - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
- - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
- nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
- appropriate nodes.
- - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
- not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
- - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
- that will want high uptime circuits.
- - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
- hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
- - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
- clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
- - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
- - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
- regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
- circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
- and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
- - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
- we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
- make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
- make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
- circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
- - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
- help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
- for google.com" problem.
- - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
- launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
- - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
- these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
- provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
- clients yet.
- o Reachability testing.
- - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
- DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
- descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
- DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
- - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
- high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
- - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
- - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
- they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
- already connected to them.
- - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
- or later.
- o Dirserver fixes:
- - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
- but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
- nickname+key are allowed.
- - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
- and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
- descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
- about all other descriptors for that address:port.
- - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
- Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
- he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
- have quite wrong clocks).
- - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
- addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
- IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
- their descriptors are being rejected.
- o Efficiency improvements:
- - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
- and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
- - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
- kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
- - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
- CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
- - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
- after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
- if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
- assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
- error message.
- - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
- reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
- it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
- - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
- to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
- - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
- OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
- OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
- of CPU time plus memory.
- - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
- directory every time you regenerate it.
- - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
- it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
- - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
- since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
- - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
- dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
- lowercase when you first see them.
- o Hidden services:
- - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
- hidden services better.
- - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
- circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
- when we try to launch one.
- - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
- after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
- attempts to build a circuit.
- - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
- be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
- - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
- normal web requests.
- o Controller:
- - More Tor controller support. See
- http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
- including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
- redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
- closestream; closecircuit; etc.
- - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
- to make it easier to write controllers.
- - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
- be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
- Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
- log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
- new log event types.
- o New config options/defaults:
- - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
- the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
- - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
- rejecting most low-numbered ports.
- - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
- exit policy.
- - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
- config option.
- - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
- based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
- - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
- the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
- willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
- capacity too.)
- - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
- a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
- allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
- - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
- - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
- testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
- publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
- - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
- addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
- required exit node for certain sites.
- - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
- for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
- your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
- - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
- which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
- ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
- how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
- - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
- a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
- servers).
- - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
- on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
- - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
- Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
- private-IP addresses.
- - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
- smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
- - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
- a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
- - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
- LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
- - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
- is valid without actually launching Tor.
- o Logging improvements:
- - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
- contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
- - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
- per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
- yell so much.
- - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
- than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
- dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
- - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
- - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
- - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
- ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
- - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
- that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
- wrong.
- - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
- it was.
- - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
- already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
- - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
- - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
- - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
- pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
- o New contrib scripts:
- - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
- script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
- addresses/ports.
- - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
- work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
- fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
- have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
- - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
- that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
- via addresses like
- "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
- - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
- Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
- - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
- on FreeBSD)
- o Misc bugfixes:
- - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
- not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
- run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
- to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
- - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
- a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
- - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
- the socks reject.
- - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
- something more reasonable when first installing.
- - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
- It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
- - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
- circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
- get the nodes.
- - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
- artificially capped at 500kB.
- - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
- addresses.
- - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
- - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
- they could use instead.
- - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
- - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
- installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
- the user asks you to.
- o Misc features:
- - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
- rather than just rejecting it.
- - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
- has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
- - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
- potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
- rather than just "success" or "failure".
- - A more sane version numbering system. See
- http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
- - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
- recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
- same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
- series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
- A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
- the same series.
- - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
- servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
- - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
- contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
- they're malformed.
- - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
- actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
- for now.
- - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
- cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
- to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
- - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
- come later.
- - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
- whether the server is hibernating.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
- - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
- maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
- arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
- (CVE-2005-2050).
- Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
- Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
- backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
- cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
- thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
- established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
- busy for more than 100 seconds.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
- - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
- a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
- extending to unknown routers. Oops.
- - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
- creating actual system users.
- - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
- a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
- in 0.1.0.x).
- Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
- - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
- reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
- - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
- - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
- blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
- checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
- sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
- - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
- inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
- - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
- - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
- you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
- other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
- - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
- - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
- speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
- - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
- into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
- resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
- because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
- yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
- - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
- existing torrc files.
- - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
- Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
- - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
- - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
- support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
- - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
- the win32 SYSTEM account.
- - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
- - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
- file descriptors available.
- - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
- - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
- seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
- a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
- freak out.
- - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
- of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
- - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
- - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
- file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
- logs, etc.
- - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
- ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
- - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
- - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
- - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
- - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
- not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
- have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
- cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
- - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
- 800kB/s of capacity.
- - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
- Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
- need as much processor time.
- - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
- run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
- optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
- application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
- human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
- - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
- long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
- shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
- - Enable Mac startup script by default.
- - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
- - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
- controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
- resetting.
- - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
- the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
- - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
- will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
- - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
- now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
- itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
- - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
- to a file.
- - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
- style address, then we'd crash.
- - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
- a dirserver is broken.
- - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
- may work better.
- - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
- where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
- doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
- - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
- name out of the warning/assert messages.
- - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
- - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
- license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
- take any away.
- - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
- immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
- - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
- DataDirectory.
- - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
- - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
- - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
- confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
- values at once couldn't work.
- - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
- if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
- being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
- - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
- strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
- they can handle any number of routers.
- - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
- - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
- - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
- nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
- - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
- - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
- writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
- - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
- now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
- Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- - Make hibernation actually work.
- - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
- - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
- don't use the stream status code.
- Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
- - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
- write() call will fail and we handle it there.
- - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
- crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
- but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
- - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
- - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
- the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
- - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
- bit platforms.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
- - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
- win32 socket errors better.
- - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
- - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
- - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
- - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
- happier.
- - Make unit tests work on win32.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
- - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
- we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
- it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
- right after sending the begin cell.
- - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
- of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
- exit nodes too. Oops.
- - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
- back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
- the user would get no response.
- - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
- we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
- - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
- forever.
- - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
- more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
- circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
- connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
- a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
- - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
- With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
- we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
- socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
- eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
- bytes sitting in the inbuf.
- - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
- half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
- because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
- as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
- o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
- - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
- - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
- - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
- - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
- - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
- and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
- - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
- - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
- so we don't see those messages days later.
- - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
- INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
- bug).
- - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
- Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
- they ran out of file descriptors.
- - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
- that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
- with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
- don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
- recent enough.
- - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
- - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
- - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
- the ones we find in directories.)
- - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
- empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
- if you don't want it open.
- - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
- there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
- which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
- - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
- or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
- connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
- o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
- - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
- overflow behavior.
- - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
- hey.)
- - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
- - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
- o Features (circuits and streams):
- - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
- used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
- or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
- 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
- - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
- - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
- the user knows which one it's talking about.
- - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
- just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
- unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
- - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
- address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
- from Geoff Goodell.
- - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
- pick it anyway.
- - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
- once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
- to fill the last cell completely.
- - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
- - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
- o Features (bandwidth):
- - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
- set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
- allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
- bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
- of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
- the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
- "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
- your billing cycle starts on.
- - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
- hibernation properties by
- AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
- AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
- Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
- - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
- kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
- o Features (directories):
- - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
- nickname to its identity key.
- - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
- of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
- - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
- lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
- - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
- appropriate.
- - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
- running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
- running-routers.z
- - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
- will be able to get a directory.
- - Http proxy support
- - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
- - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
- be routed through this host.
- - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
- This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
- - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
- with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
- - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
- 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
- o Features (packages and install):
- - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
- - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
- - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
- - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
- - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
- - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
- - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
- ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
- - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
- - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
- is broken.
- o Features (ui controller):
- - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
- client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
- notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
- bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
- Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
- - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
- with the control port.
- - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
- use in authenticating to the control interface.
- - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
- configuration to torrc.
- - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
- - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
- But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
- o Features (config and command-line):
- - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
- not on the command line.
- - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
- options.
- - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
- - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
- - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
- - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
- - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
- - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
- - New log format in config:
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
- "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
- - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
- from their dirserver.
- - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
- and then exit.
- - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
- - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
- specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
- with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
- - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
- specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
- - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
- server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
- - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
- out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
- - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
- - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
- parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
- - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
- - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
- repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
- default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
- - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
- - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
- than once per minute.
- o Features (other):
- - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
- get back to normal.)
- - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
- - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
- - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
- log more informatively.
- - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
- servers and clients to have any clock skew.
- - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
- from each other, to hinder linkability.
- - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
- them act more like real nodes.
- - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
- - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
- 1024) file descriptors.
- - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
- Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
- clients/servers with an open dirport.
- - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
- our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
- - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
- intermittent connections.
- - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
- - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
- reattaches.
- - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
- in reporting stats locally.
- - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
- immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
- - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
- Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
- itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
- - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
- everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
- - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
- you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
- - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
- list to decide who's running.
- - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
- end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
- - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
- - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
- hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
- - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
- function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
- for pointing out this bug.)
- - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
- directory.
- - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
- don't put it into the client dns cache.
- - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
- address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
- reject *:* until we get our next directory.
- o Protocol changes:
- - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
- intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
- extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
- hadn't heard of before.
- o Features:
- - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
- without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
- - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
- by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
- - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
- list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
- - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
- nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
- - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
- routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
- Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
- - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
- low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
- - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
- - Directory caching.
- - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
- - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
- directory they've pulled down.
- - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
- - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
- DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
- - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
- authdirservers, to stay better synced.
- - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
- if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
- by hash-of-key).
- - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
- This isn't used yet.
- - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
- running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
- clients don't use this yet.)
- - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
- - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
- - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
- options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
- detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
- - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
- ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
- which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
- - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
- should tolerate down dirservers better now.
- - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
- - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
- connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
- - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
- and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
- clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
- - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
- connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
- - File and name management:
- - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
- - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
- as datadir.
- - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
- - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
- - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
- - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
- to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
- - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
- it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
- to use.
- - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
- rather than an is-in-the-list check.
- - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
- locally.
- - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
- - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
- interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
- - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
- - Write tor version at the top of each log file
- - New docs in the tarball:
- - tor-doc.html.
- - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
- - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
- are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
- - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
- know you might want to get it verified.
- - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
- kazaa, gnutella ports.
- - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
- - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
- - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
- snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
- - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
- has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
- - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
- "GET /".
- - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
- an exitnode.
- - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
- we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
- or exit nodes.
- - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
- IP address for outgoing connect()s.
- - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
- Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
- o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
- ask them to resolve the host "".
- Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
- o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
- eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
- Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
- o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
- since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
- Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
- o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
- - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
- to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
- them.
- - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
- would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
- give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
- exit nodes.
- - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
- hidden service per 15-minute period.
- - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
- the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
- even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
- o Fixes for security bugs:
- - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
- random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
- a trusted dirserver.
- o Other bugfixes:
- - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
- start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
- - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
- didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
- but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
- - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
- will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
- - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
- arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
- - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
- have failed.
- - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
- - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
- - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
- breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
- - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
- we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
- easily.
- - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
- settings too.
- o Features:
- - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
- - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
- now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
- - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
- directory (not that we were anywhere close).
- - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
- - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
- separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
- option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
- - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
- Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
- - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
- to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
- - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
- Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
- o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
- not the previous cells like we'd thought.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
- o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
- onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
- out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
- polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
- Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
- o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
- server.
- Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
- o Features:
- - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
- http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
- hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
- Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
- - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
- - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
- if you decrypted them correctly.
- - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
- exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
- - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
- approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
- in-memory directories too.
- - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
- - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
- - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
- - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
- just close the circ.
- - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
- - Better debugging for tls errors
- - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
- - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
- the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
- - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
- It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
- happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
- operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
- it tells you about the first error.
- - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
- When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
- - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
- - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
- returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
- - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
- o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
- o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
- o Win32's close can't close a socket.
- o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
- o Portability:
- - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
- <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
- Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
- o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
- torrc. (Woo!)
- o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
- o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
- using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
- This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
- o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
- expect it to have a nickname.
- o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
- early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
- o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
- o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
- the dns farm to do it.
- o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
- o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
- directory.
- o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
- rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
- o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
- o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
- but that aren't warnings
- Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
- o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
- we would crash.
- Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
- o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
- o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
- - include missing header fcntl.h
- - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
- - deal with hardware word alignment
- - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
- - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
- o Preliminary work on reputation system:
- - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
- by kill -USR1 currently.
- - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
- circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
- - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
- Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
- - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
- - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
- now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
- - And fix a few endian issues.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
- o New features:
- - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
- try that circuit again: try a new one.
- - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
- - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
- logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
- accept it even without mail from the server operator).
- - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
- - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
- about as a server.
- - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
- - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
- (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
- simply not true.
- - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
- expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
- side isn't reading right then.
- - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
- RecommendedVersions
- - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
- - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
- - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
- o New features:
- - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
- we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
- e.g. poblano.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
- crashed.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
- a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
- - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
- connection is finished.
- - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
- flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
- - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
- - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
- - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
- will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
- - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
- - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
- rather than warn and continue.
- - Make --version work
- - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
- o New features:
- - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
- knows it's working.
- - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
- send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
- clearly thwarted.)
- - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
- - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
- so you can collect coredumps there.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
- didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
- a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
- - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
- dns cache actually gets populated.
- - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
- - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
- end cell down it first.
- - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
- excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
- o New features:
- - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
- - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
- errors happen.
- - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
- Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
- - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
- 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
- - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
- their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
- it.
- - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
- o Bugfixes:
- - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
- then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
- think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
- - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
- - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
- Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
- dirservers.
- - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
- many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
- o New features:
- - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
- - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
- tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
- tor. It even has a man page.
- - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
- - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
- - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
- so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
- his/her torrc.
- - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
- o Bugfixes:
- - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
- o New features:
- - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
- it, apt-getters. :)
- - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
- bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
- BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
- kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
- BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
- performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
- - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
- than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
- may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
- - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
- from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
- to new ones.
- - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
- have them reattach to new circuits instead.
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
- after a while.
- - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
- - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
- closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
- inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
- weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
- eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
- open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
- - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
- - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
- logfile so you know it's working.
- - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
- - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
- - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
- AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
- o Bugfixes:
- - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
- - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
- adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
- o Features:
- - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
- to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
- - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
- with MorphMix).
- - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
- - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
- relay cells.
- - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
- messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
- use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
- this hop.
- - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
- breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
- been made so far.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
- o Bugfixes:
- - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
- - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
- counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
- o Features:
- - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
- open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
- the circuit and then we open streams at him.
- - Add port ranges to exit policies
- - Add a conservative default exit policy
- - Warn if you're running tor as root
- - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
- - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
- - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
- your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
- exit nodes.
- - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
- really screw things up.
- - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
- working.
- - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
- handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
- established.
- - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
- - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
- - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
- - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
- - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
- - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
- o Configuration:
- - Change default loglevel to warn.
- - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
- - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
- ORPort>0.
- - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
- o Robustness and bugfixes:
- - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
- - to get ownership/permissions right
- - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
- - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
- pull down a directory again
- - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
- causing server crashes
- - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
- - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
- - exit if bind() fails
- - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
- - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
- - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
- - fix minor bias in PRNG
- - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
- o Documentation:
- - Wrote the design document (woo)
- o Circuit building and exit policies:
- - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
- are down.
- - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
- bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
- - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
- exists, rather than failing
- - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
- which AP connections are standing by
- - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
- - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
- - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
- circuit.
- - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
- - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
- o Configuration:
- - APPort is now called SocksPort
- - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
- where to bind
- - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
- hardcoded (for dirservers)
- - Reloads config on HUP
- - Usage info on -h or --help
- - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
- Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
- o General stability:
- - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
- of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
- - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
- - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
- - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
- to take down the network when I approve a new router
- - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
- o Buffers:
- - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
- - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
- o Autoconf improvements:
- - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
- - Make install now works
- - create var/lib/tor on make install
- - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
- - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
- o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
- - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
- - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
- - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup
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